Mani Ratnam is widely credited with altering the profile of Indian cinema.
=== Early years and struggle: 19831986 ===Mani Ratnam developed a scriptoriginally written in Englishinto a film and named it Pallavi Anu Pallavi
 In 1995, Mani returned to Tamil language drama through Bombay starring Arvind Swamy and Manisha Koirala, which told the story of a Hindu-Muslim couple in the midst of the 1993 religious Bombay riots and bombings

