He was particularly noted for his performance in Mani Ratnam's Godfatheresque Tamil film Nayagan ( 1987 ), which was ranked by Time magazine as one of the best films of all time.

Following Punnagai Mannan, in which he portrayed dual roles including a satire of Charlie Chaplin as Chaplin Chellappa and Vetri Vizha as an amnesiac, Kamal Haasan appeared in Mani Ratnam's 1987 film Nayagan.

The former was a prominent personality who produced many of Ratnam's films, including Mouna Ragam, Nayagan, Agni Natchathiram, Thalapathi, and Anjali, later committed suicide in 2003, reportedly because of financial problems.

He was introduced as an actor by Mani Ratnam in the drama film Thalapathi ( 1990 ) and subsequently went on to play the lead role again in Ratnam's Roja ( 1992 ) and Bombay ( 1994 ).

Ilaiyaraaja's musical score and Ratnam's work were highly appreciated as they both went on to win the Music Director and Best Director awards respectively at the 39th Filmfare Awards.

Scripted by Ram Gopal Varma, it explored the action and thriller genres, was a departure from Ratnam's previous style, did not fare well at the box office.

Ratnam's following project, Kannathil Muthamittal, dealt with the story of a child of Sri Lankan Tamil parentage adopted by Indian parents, who wishes to meet her biological mother during the Sri Lankan Civil War.

This film was produced by his own production company called Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited ( ABCL ), which produced films like Tere Mere Sapne and distributed several films such as Kali Ratnam's Bombay Boy and Shekhar Kapur's Bandit Queen.

Ratnam's father was nearly killed by the Japanese and was instructed to be beheaded within one to two days time due to his impulsive nature not to obey the Japanese troops.

In 1972, Ratnam's Obstetrics and Gynaecology department received the accolade as being one of 13 research centres in human reproduction in the world, recognition conferred by the World Health Organization.

The son of actor-director Thyagarajan, Prashanth began his career at 17 by appearing in Vaigasi Poranthachu and went on to feature in other films including R. K. Selvamani's Chembaruthi and Mani Ratnam's action-comedy Thiruda Thiruda.

* Guru ( 2007 ) .... Bade ( Senior ) Contractor sahaab ... aka Gurukant ( India: Telugu title ) ... aka Mani Ratnam's Guru ( India: English title: complete title )

Ratnam's screenplay won a Karnataka State Film Award for Best Screenplay.

The film elevated Ratnam's status as a director and won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil at the 34th National Film Awards.

He then won critical praise for his performance in Mani Ratnam's acclaimed Dil Se ...

Kapur later recommended her for director Mani Ratnam's movie Dil Se ... Zinta often recalls that when she joined the film industry, her friends teased her that she would typically " wear white saris and dance in the rain ", thereby motivating her to play different parts.

During this period, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda.

Ratnam's mother, who was already stricken with rectum cancer for at least three and a half years, was taking marijuana and opium to soothe her pain.

Swami spent a decade in businesses ranging from construction to international trade to outsourcing before returning to acting in Mani Ratnam's production, Kadal, which is scheduled for release in 2013.

Ratnam's forthcoming film, Kadal, earlier titled Pookadai, is said to be set against the backdrop of fishermen in and around Rameswaram.

Ratnam's aspiration towards films grew up watching films of K. Balachander, Guru Dutt and Sivaji Ganesan.

In 2004, she acted in Mani Ratnam's composite film Yuva alongside Ajay Devgan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vivek Oberoi, Kareena Kapoor and Esha Deol.

She starred in a number of unsuccessful films during 1992-1993 until Vidhu Vinod Chopra's love saga 1942: A Love Story ( 1994 ) and Mani Ratnam's Tamil drama Bombay ( 1995 ) came out.

Kapoor next co-starred in Mani Ratnam's bilingual project Yuva alongside Ajay Devgn, Abhishek Bachchan, Vivek Oberoi, Rani Mukerji and Esha Deol.

Aishwarya Rai too had not been a part of a commercially successful film in her two movies til date, despite winning critical acclaim in Mani Ratnam's Iruvar.

She was also a part of Mani Ratnam's stage show, Netru, Indru, Naalai.

Her filmography includes classics like Apoorva Sagodharargal, Raja Chinna Roja, Thevar Magan, as well as Mani Ratnam's Iruvar ( 1997 ), which co-starred Mohanlal, Prakash Raj, Aishwarya Rai, Tabu, Nasser and Revathi.

In 2008 Prabhu acted in Kuselan, Silambattam and Ayan playing supporting roles in all films, and in Mani Ratnam's Raavanan, and Maanja Velu.

Ratnam's mother's ideologies greatly influenced his later life.

He received his second Indian National Award for his performance and Nayagan was nominated by India as its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards in 1987.

In 1987, Ratnam directed Nayagan starring Kamal Haasan, and the film became a huge success and brought him recognition at the national level.

Several films by Mani Ratnam based on the experiences of Tamil immigrants to Mumbai have depicted the Dharavi slum, including Nayagan ( 1987 ) and Bombay ( 1995 ).

Nayagan, also known as Nayakan, is a 1987 Tamil biopic, written and directed by Mani Ratnam and starring Kamal Haasan.

Many of his films have taken inspirations from real-life incidents such as Nayagan, Bombay, Iruvar and films like Thalapathi and Raavan were based on Indian epics.

Many such outings followed including playing keyboard for the soundtrack of the movie Nayagan.

Nayagan was both commercially successful and critically acclaimed winning three National Awards — Best Actor, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction — at the 35th National Film Awards.

In 2005, the Time Magazine included Nayagan in its list of " All-Time 100 Best Films ".. This has also been included in The Moving Arts Film Journal greatest films of all time .. Nayagan was also included as one of 20 greatest Indian films of all time.

In 2005, Time Magazine included Nayagan in its " All-Time 100 Best Films " list.

Nayagan portrays the life of an underworld don in Bombay.

His Tamil film Nayagan along with Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) are the only Indian films to have appeared in Time magazine's All-Time 100 Greatest Movies.

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

Bum Rush the Show ( 1987 ), It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back ( 1988 ), Fear of a Black Planet ( 1990 ), Apocalypse 91 ...

Contacts with the FARC, which had irregularly continued despite the generalized de facto interruptions of the ceasefire and the official 1987 break from negotiations, were temporarily cut off in 1990 under the presidency of César Gaviria ( 1990 – 1994 ).

* Giuseppe Caprio ( 22 June 1987 – 26 November 1990 )

General elections were held in 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2008 and 2012.

* Bruce Kent 1987 – 1990

The Haskell language began with a consensus in 1987 to form an open standard for functional programming research ; implementation releases have been ongoing since 1990.

During his Steaua years ( 1987 – 1990 ), Hagi played 97 Liga I games, scoring 76 goals.

( 1990 ) Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocides and Mass Murders 1917 – 1987, Rutgers, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.

His name was engraved on three of five Stanley Cups won during that period: 1985, 1987 and 1990.

This era saw a resurgence of militancy with direct action groups like AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ( ACT UP ) ( formed in 1987 ), and its offshoots Queer Nation ( 1990 ) and the Lesbian Avengers ( 1992 ).

After repeated victories in 1983, 1987, 1990 and 1994 he was finally defeated by a landslide that was the biggest on record, for the left in the 1998 federal elections, and was succeeded as Chancellor by Gerhard Schröder of the SPD.

* 1987 – 1990 Chief

* 1987 – 1990 Pioneer

The 5-door VAZ-21093 hatchback followed in 1987, and the 4-door 1. 5 L sedan, VAZ-21099, was introduced in 1990.

Lemmy has made a number of appearances in film and television, including the 1990 science fiction film Hardware and the 1987 comedy Eat the Rich, for which Motörhead also recorded the soundtracks.

Most recently, British archaeologist and Assyriologist Professor David Stronach of the University of California, Berkeley conducted a series of surveys and digs at the site from 1987 – 1990, focusing his attentions to the several gates and the existent mudbrick walls, as well as the system that supplied water to the city in times of siege.

In 1987, the government announced that the fourth national census would take place in 1990 and that there would be one every ten years thereafter.

Hoffmann is also a writer of poetry published in two collections, " The Metamict State " ( 1987, ISBN 0-8130-0869-7 ) and " Gaps and Verges " ( 1990, ISBN 0-8130-0943-X ), and of books explaining chemistry to the general public.

" ( Middleton 1990, p. 172 ) See Nattiez ( 1976, 1987, 1989 ), Stefani ( 1973, 1986 ), Baroni ( 1983 ), and Semiotica ( 66: 1 – 3 ( 1987 )).

After revising the constitution in 1987 and after years of resisting the United States-supported Contras the FSLN lost the election in 1990 to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, but they retained a plurality of seats in the legislature.

The elections of 1990, which had been mandated by the constitution passed in 1987, saw the Bush administration funnel $ 49. 75 million of ‘ non-lethal ’ aid to the Contras, as well as $ 9m to the opposition UNO — equivalent to $ 2 billion worth of intervention by a foreign power in a US election at the time, and proportionately five times the amount George Bush had spent on his own election campaign.