- Every film he has delivered has been either extremely successful commercially or critically acclaimed. Has a penchant for making films with a well-defined theme and backdrop, but also excels at light hearted movies.
- He made his first movie 'Pallavi Anu Pallavi'(Kannada: 1983) without first hand experience in movie making. He approached Balu Mahendra (cinematographer, Pallavi Anu Pallavi), who was a big name in film industry and asked him to be the cinematographer for the movie. Balu asked if Mani had experience in movie making or attended a formal course in movie making or was present at a film shoot. For all the above Mani's answer was a simple 'No'! But Balu was convinced by the story and went on to make the movie which won the state award from Karnataka that year.
- He has rarely shot in foreign locales. Most movies of his have been made within India. This, at a time when Directors need the lamest excuse to fly to USA, Europe or Australia to shoot just a song or two. Only two of his films have been shot abroad. The first being Guru (2007) which was shot in Turkey and Istanbul and the second being Chekka Chivantha Vaanam (2018) which was shot in Dubai and Serbia.
- Most of his films have been seen in both North and South India. Up to 2000, his films were dubbed in Hindi; Alai Payuthey (2000) was remade as Saathiya (2002) and Yuva (2004) was remade as Ayitha Ezhutu (2004).
- Son of veteran film distributor 'Venus Ratnam'
- Studied in Vidya Mandir School, Chennai
- Brother of producer 'G. Srinivasan', producer 'G. Venkateswaranan' and producer Sethu Sriram.
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