Manikandan shot the mammoth song sequence
Yakkai Thiri ... for Ayudha
Ezhuthu and
also some of the Ajay Devgan scenes for Yuva.
Describing the experience of working with
Mani Ratnam as "ultimate" the cameraman
says, "Mani would be on the sets at 5
in the morning,
and
would work through the day. We would have a
30-minute break for breakfast and lunch and
that's it. None would leave the sets and neither
would he. The shooting was down South in Pollachi
and Theni. Ajay Devgan would tell us that he
had never seen sunrise till he began shooting
for Yuva. But that's how Mani Ratnam worked."
