EXCLUSIVE: Mani Ratnam on doing a film with Amitabh Bachchan: If I go to him, I want to have something special

Amitabh Bachchan is one of the most successful actors in Bollywood. The Shahenshah of Bollywood, gained popularity for his incredible performances in films such as Zanjeer, Sholay, Deewar, and Bhoothnath Returns among others. Over the years, Big B has collaborated with several filmmakers. However, Amitabh Bachchan is yet to collaborate with Mani Ratnam. Fans are patiently waiting for the actor-director to announce a film someday. Now, in an exclusive interview with Bollywood Bubble, Mani Ratnam opened up about the possibility of doing a film with Amitabh Bachchan.

He said, “I hope I’ll be able to do a film with him sometime. I should have enough meat. He’s done so much and he’s done them so well over all these years that I should have something extra to push him, to drag him. Till then, I don’t have the courage to go and tell him please do this film.”

The filmmaker added, “If I go to him, I want to have something special that’s when I’ll go.”

 

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For the uninitiated, Amitabh Bachchan had launched the Hindi teaser of Mani Ratnam’s latest release ‘Ponniyin Selvan: 1’. Ponniyin Selvan: 1 released on 30^th September, 2022. The film starred Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Vikram, Trisha Krishnan, Sobhita Dhulipala, and Jayam Ravi among others.

During the interview, Mani Ratnam opened up about working with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in PS 1. For the unversed, Aishwarya and Mani previously worked together in Guru and Raavan. The filmmaker was all praises for Aishwarya as he said, “I remember the first day the first scene that she did and she was like a professional. She would know her lines and she would do it effortlessly. She would take direction very well so if you can talk to her, she takes it all in and she’s able to convert it into her own. She was very good even then in my opinion and Iruvar, her first film was kind of not an easy role because there are two shades of it and she was able to do both of them with enough conviction. I think she always had it in her.”

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