Current burning issues as subjects, he creates movies very close to reality. This expertise of Maniratnam has earned him special recognition, and he occupies a special place as a director in the film industry.
His latest yet to be titled film is being made on a bilingual scale. Both the languages have Aishwarya Bachchan in the lead while the male lead in the Hindi version has Abhishek Bachchan and the Tamil version has Vikram. The movie is now progressing in a brisk pace. Shortly, a few important sequences has been planned to be made in the dense jungle of Srilanka.
Alerted by the recent loss to the makers of the film 'Kites', due to sudden rains that ruined expensive outdoor sets constructed for shooting, Manirathnam has insured his current directorial venture, as it is unpredictable when it is going rain in the locales of Sri Lanka. The news says that the policy covers the loss if any caused by rain or any such unforeseen occurences. The director says it is to protect his producers from incurring a huge loss from any such unforeseen circumstances that might occur.