Mani Ratnam will be honoured with Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the Venice Film Festival to be held in September. Announcing this at Cannes, just before the launch of Mani Ratnam's Film Raavan, Venice Film Festival director Marco Muller said, Mani Ratnam is one of the greatest innovators in contemporary Indian Cinema. He helped introduce the auteur concept to contemporary Bollywood. We are very proud to honour the work of the great Indian director Mani Ratnam.

In addition to Mr. Mani Ratnam, Mrs. Suhasini, Mani Ratnam and Mr. Vikram are attending the 67.Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica (67th Venice International Film Festival.)

The Award Ceremony and the screening of Raavanan (Tamil) and Raavan (Hindi) will take place on September 6th. The said films both Tamil and Hindi will also take part in the PUSAN International Film Festival in October 2010.