Mani’s wife, Suhasini had condemned the reports of director Mani Ratnam and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan teaming up for an adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s famous 1938 novel Rebecca. Suhasini said, “No, it’s wrong.” 

She went on to add, “Mani is currently focussed on Kadal, which still has seven days of shoot left. He will decide on his next only after this film releases. It will take him eight more months after that to write his next script. So, any news about his future project that comes up in this time period is false.”