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Baradwaj Rangan 
Udhav Naig
August 28, 2012
Congratulations. Looking forward!
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Sanjay Shankar (@sanjayshankar)
August 28, 2012
I like this one more. Will there be pics in the book (similar to the one on the earlier cover)?
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Umesh Kesavan
August 28, 2012
😦 it is not getting loaded 😦
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Seetharaman Ganesan
August 28, 2012
when is the book out?
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cpvenkatesh
August 28, 2012
when is it coming out, waiting and excited sir !
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Umesh Kesavan
August 28, 2012
aha, got loaded, wonderful cover, looking forward to the release , please release it soon sir, atleast tell when it will be up for pre-order on Flipkart, I already feel like a Rajinikanth fan buying tickets for “Enthiran” 🙂
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Gradwolf
August 28, 2012
What? Not Nayagan cover ah?!
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ravi
August 28, 2012
will it be available on kindle too?
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thundadome21
August 28, 2012
Is there any online book sellers taking pre-orders for this??? Is it possible to get the dates??
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vijay
August 28, 2012
WOW!tats something new!lookin forward to it!
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SdBurman
August 28, 2012
Congrats…
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Suresh Krishnamoorthy
August 28, 2012
Nice bro.
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venkatesh
August 28, 2012
Isn;t he supposed to be Mani Rathinam rather than Mani Ratnam ??
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rameshram
August 28, 2012
Ille…doesn’t work. looks too …coffee table booky. This is a great cover if you were doing a picture book of mani films with a little bit of writing, it looks too much like a mass marketed ” How I built the atom bomb” by APJ Abdul Kalam to be taken seriously.
The old cover was better.
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sachita
August 28, 2012
how gorgeous ?
It took its own sweet time to upload though!
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Bharathwaj
August 28, 2012
Liked the other one better. When is the release?
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Gans
August 29, 2012
Looks good… Can we pre order? But the prev cover was better 🙂
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abe
August 29, 2012
thought the other one had more soul. this seems more ‘personality’ based. reminds me of the walter isaacson steve jobs cover. ah well, the vagaries of the publishing world (and the ones who think they know best)
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Bala
August 29, 2012
Boss, I agree with some of the comments here, the previous cover was better. Or maybe keep that as the back cover and this on front ? Or is your mug on the back cover ? In which case nothing can be done 😀
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brangan
August 29, 2012
abe: “ah well, the vagaries of the publishing world (and the ones who think they know best)” — that’s exactly it. People seem to think that I can somehow have whatever cover I want, but this is all done by the heads of design and marketing. They know what cover will work best on bookstore displays and stuff, and the writer’s job is long done by the time this stage arrives.
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venkatesh
August 29, 2012
BR: Admittedly , a writer’s job is all done by this stage but get the Head of Design/Marketing of the Publishing House on the phone and tell him that he is an idiot.
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Mambazha Manidhan
August 29, 2012
The other cover was Classic. Any film buff would want to buy it. The design was great. Mani Ratnam on the Marquee in Bold letters. The W in Baradwaj Rangan was characteristic and really stood out because of the Serif.
Maybe, the new cover is less esoteric and panders to a wider audience than only film geeks. But, hey if this makes the buyers of Still Reading Khan want to purchase the book, who’s complaining ? 😉
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brangan
August 30, 2012
Mambazha Manidhan: I think you’re right — that must be the logic. The difference is between appealing to film buffs (who can instantly connect that still to “Nayakan”) and a more general audience. Selfishly speaking, I liked my name in the black band in the middle. Simple. Straightforward. Like the book. Looking at it, I’d say it pointed towards the no-nonsense approach to the subject inside. But I guess this is more arty/pretty, and a lot of people have told me how “classy” and “elegant” this one is.
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hari
August 30, 2012
what does Mani Saar think about this cover?
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rameshram
August 31, 2012
screw mani saar does AR Rahman like the cover? If you forget A R Rahman you are …uh…finished? 😀 😛
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Krishnan
September 13, 2012
Available overseas or only in India?
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dinakaranonline
September 14, 2012
Brilliant 🙂
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sachita
September 20, 2012
eppo saar varum? wait panni panni bore adikarathu
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brangan
September 29, 2012
sachita: A link to pre-order the book… http://tinyurl.com/d93f5wo (No idea about the exact date it will actually be in stores though.)
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brangan
September 29, 2012
As an aside, I have received numerous queries about the cost of the book (which, of course, is decided by Penguin). All I can think of is that it isn’t that much. It’s roughly how much you’d pay for a pizza order or a meal at a halfway-decent restaurant. And it isn’t that these people are students or anything. They are working folks. Plus, the online stores do offer discounts. Do we become more conscious of cost wrt certain things over others? Just wondering….
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Mambazha Manidhan
September 29, 2012
Better here. http://www.flipkart.com/conversations-mani-ratnam-0670085200/p/itmddsyhzy676wud?pid=9780670085200 Late October?
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brangan
September 29, 2012
Mambazha Manidhan: Paperback??? Hmmm… This is getting outta control 🙂
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sachita
October 1, 2012
uread link says out of stock! flipkart wont allow us to order outside india.
And Amazon shows $65?
“http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=conversations+with+maniratnam
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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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donna
January 21, 2021
Good morning and Happy New Year! Thank you so much for writing this book. Can’t tell you just how rewarding it is to pull this book off the shelf and read about the Mani Ratnam movie we just watched.
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