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“The film is about a life, about a person with his positives and negatives, about his emotions and relationships, his moral conflicts. The debate on the moral issue is just one aspect of a wider picture.”

“We said that we would be more colourful, and within that we would get into the drama that the film naturally required. There was always light and darkness in the central character, so we shot in interiors that had that kind of quality.”

– “An Interview with Baradwaj Rangan” in Conversations with Mani Ratnam (2012).

Mani Ratnam's film, Kannathil Muthamittal (2002), cover themes of religious intolerance and communal violence, serving as cautionary tales about the dangers of extremism and the importance of secularism and tolerance (Rao, 2008)