MUMBAI: The Venice Film Festival has decided to honour Mani Ratnam with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award this year.

Announcing this development, 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 Ratnam, Suhasini Mani Ratnam and actor Vikram will be attending the 67th Venice International Film Festival in September.

The award ceremony and the screening of Raavanan (Tamil) and Raavan (Hindi) will take place on 6 September.

Both the versions of the film will also take part in the Pusan International Film Festival in Korea in October 2010.