Very kind early words about the book from Jai Arjun Singh, aka Jabberwock, here:
“…it holds up extremely well in comparison with the two best conversations-with-directors books I have read: Bogdanovich on Orson Welles and Truffaut-Hitchcock… [Baradwaj has] achieved something very special here: he has got Mani Ratnam to open up about a lot of things, moderated a series of fascinating conversations… and most tricky of all, he has structured those sessions in such a way that a reader gets a sense of drama as well as chronology.”
Baradwaj Rangan 
brangan
August 3, 2012
Have added a new menu for the book in the sidebar, where I’ll list links to news items/reviews etc. as they appear. Penguin hasn’t announced a release date yet.
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rameshram
August 3, 2012
good luck.
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vijay
August 3, 2012
what did Suhasini say about the book?
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Shalabh Gupta
August 3, 2012
High praise indeed – will look out for the book. However, I’d love to buy a collection of your best writing on films – perhaps a selection of your best reviews (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly?) with some essays. As another fan of your writing, it would be a treat.
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anamika
August 3, 2012
waiting for the book to hit the stands.Kudos and all the best
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venkatesh
August 3, 2012
BR : All the best and here is something for you :
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rameshram
August 3, 2012
this I gotta see!
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vijay
August 8, 2012
BR, I hope you intend to write a short piece, at least here, on the making of the book itself. How it came about, the whole experience of interacting with him and so on..
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KK
August 9, 2012
Hi Baradwaj,
Congratulations on the book! Will it be available to purchase online or for delivery to the US? I’d love to read it.
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brangan
August 9, 2012
vijay: I think that’s there in the intro. Anyway, maybe later…
KK: I have really no idea. It’s all up to the publishers. But will put up information as and when I get to know…
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Sriram
August 12, 2012
Rangan Saar, glad to see this. 🙂 I didn’t expect that, a comment that I wrote the other day in :Raja Genre..” would come into fruition so soon. Looks like you always had this plan in you only to unleash it in right time. My best wishes!
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brangan
October 15, 2016
Kind intimation from a reader:
“When I bought the ‘Conversations with Mani Ratnam’ book, it didn’t have the chapter on ‘Kadal’. I have read comment threads on your blog where people have asked for that chapter to be made available. I was delighted to find it on Google Play.
I presume that many of your readers are still looking for it. Here’s the link to the e-book on the Google play US store: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Baradwaj_Rangan_Conversations_with_Mani_Ratnam?id=i75zCgAAQBAJ
The price ($1.68) is fair. I’m not sure if it is available in India. I couldn’t check that from the US. If you share it on your blog, I think it’ll make a lot of readers happy.”
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