"Carpe Diem" Says The Dead Poets Society

What is the use in living, expecting that something would happen tomorrow?
What is the use in living, making steady plans for tomorrow?

There is no use in any of the above. We are here now and that is all that matters, isn't it? Nobody in this world except God knows what will happen tomorrow. We are just humans, weak in body and heart and soul trying to mend things in our own way. Why do i say we are weak? Yes of course, we are weak, aren't we weak when we cannot control our tomorrow? This film "Dead Poets Society" time and again reminds the watcher that he/she shouldn't leave anything to the future. This film is full of strong ideas but then given to the viewer in a sugar coated layer.

"Carpe Diem" means Seize the Day in Latin. 
Do it today and start doing it now because nobody knows how tomorrow will be. Do what you like and strive hard to make it happen. What's the use in living somebody else's life? Somebody else's Dream? We were born for a reason and everybody has their own purpose to solve. Try finding that reason in life and try achieving what you want. This is the idea that DPS projects.

I Hate Love Stories - A Review By Jaik M

It was Friday evening and I was looking forward to a Film that could be the ingredient for the Feel Good factor. So ‘I hate Love stories’ sounded like a Film to unwind after those hurried Weekdays. The film brought in the fresh feel for the evening through Imran and Sonam. Both together lifted the style quotient of the film. One could look out for the apparels from Flying Machine that was quite fashionable.

Well now for the story of the film Jay works for Director Veer and is quite frustrated about the routine Bollywood Romantic Flicks.  In comes Simran who dreams about bollywood love stories and craves for Mr.Right. She has found the Mr.Right (Raj) a childhood friend. The story moves forward off how Jay and Simran happen to work together and eventually have their values of what they believe tested which forms the rest off the story. The pun on Bollywood romantic flicks and making fun off Kuch Kuch hota hai and DDLJ were part off the interesting narrative. The supporting actors playing the characters of Veer , Jezzel and Shahrukh look alike pulled out decent performances.

The Karate Kid - A Review By Sreeni R

Why do we go to watch a FILM?
There cud be 1000 reasons but the prime reason is entertainment isn't it?

Myself and my Brother walked into the theater without any hope or expectation. Of course there was a basic expectation like "Well its a Jackie Film and it is supposed to be good and a fun film", "Well, it has Jaden Smith in it, whose previous flick was Awesome", "This film is definitely supposed to be good, otherwise Will is not gonna Co-produce" and stuff like this.

Once the film started I knew that I was gonna watch one of the best films of this season. Man, Jaden is a star and I can tell you with content that he's gonna do films with more latitude than his father. He's just a kid but you'll see an acting experience of at least 3 times his age. The subtlety and the novelty in his performance is impeccable and Taraji P. Henson as his Mother has done justice to the role, that's all. Most of the times her expression looks very repetitive, but u can excuse or even go without noticing it bcos the story is abt the lil boy. :)

Inception - A Review By Sreeni R

Sometimes people do things because they feel they have to do them. There can be thousands of reasons for them to do that thing, Pressure from Family, Pressure from Society, Pressure from Peers etc, and they don’t mind doing them. They just do it so that they can stay alive, live a dull life, a safe life. Then there are people who belong to a different category. They don’t give a damn what the world thinks about them .They will do what they like and they will achieve what they wanted to achieve, those are the guys who’ve always made revolutions, those care the people who’ve brought upon a great change in this world and they are the people who’ll be remembered forever. Nolan is one such guy. A guy who can transform his dreams into cinema, convert his thoughts into a mellifluous story on Celluloid.

Vamsam - A Review By Sreeni R

Yesterday (14th Aug 2010) was amazing. I met my long time Friend Nishanth after 4 years. He was in the US doing some crazy stuff which themselves can become an interesting screenplay. So after lunch he wanted to go some place. Half of my friends would've guessed this by this time, being me, I naturally suggested we go to a movie. We ended up in Mayajaal. At the ticket counter we noticed that almost all the movies were full and the there were only 3 films left for the 5:30 show. One was "Thillaalangadi", two was "Ananthaputahu veedu" which was quite old and then there was Vamsam.I was thinking logically that Vamsam would be the rite choice as that will lemme write a review for the same which will help me gather a few hits to my website (which otherwise does not attract much crowd :P) So Vamsam it was.

Maryada Ramanna - A Review By Sreeni R

We went to the new AGS hall in Villivakkam for the first time and lemme tell you, I was more interested in checking out the theatre rather than the movie. We were just discussing about how this movie was doing and people's reaction etc. Just the normal kind of discussions that guys usually have before they go to a movie. My friend Jaik interestingly, saw the movie in Bangalore and he was not very happy with it (Please note the word VERY). I was skeptical about this film because it had Sunil in the lead and I’ve seen his "Andhala Raamudu" which had some very good examples of Bad acting. Brother Sunil please, please, please Forgive me for being so judgmental, but sometimes truth has to be told and you being a down to earth and a very frank guy I think you will bear with me. Though I was all the time thinking why "Maryada Ramanna (MR)" after "Magadheeraa"? That is the fact which actually wanted me to watch this film.

Naan Mahaan Alla - A Review By Sreeni R

My Lil brother and me are on a film watching spree. It was Madarasapattinam yesterday and the much awaited “Naan Mahaan Alla” today. On my way back from work i just called him to come n pick me and i just like that asked him if he was game for “Naan Mahaan Alla” as expected he said yes (You see it runs in the blood). So went home ate a quick dinner and then off we went to a local theatre in our area. It did not matter, what theatre it was all that mattered was "Naan Mahan Alla" on day one.

Kalavani - A Review By Sreeni R

After reading my Vamsam review one of my readers called me up and said "Bro, i think you don like Village Subjects and that why you don see them or you say they are bad" i was like come on man. "Why do you think so? I'm not at all like that" he said, "Prove it..." my instant reply was "Hmmm... I loved Paruthiveeran, Veyyil, I loved Kalavani...and..." Then i took a pause not because i got exhausted with the list but just because i felt very bad not writing a review for Kalavani which was an awesome film in my perpective. I told my friend, "Bro, thanks for the call, I've got work to do" and the next minute i found myself writing this review.

Going the Distance- A Review by Ally Solomon

  

Going on a first date? I swear, it's the perfect movie with a combination of filth yet funny, romantic and touch of contemporary feel to it. Kudos to the Director Nanette Burstein for his concept of "Long distance relationship" as most of them find it tougher or rather hard to digest happening in our own lives ;)

Well, what made me watch this movie?? frankly nothing, all I expected was to maintain Sanity after the bad affair I had with “Eat Pray & Love” .The one reason I could fish out would be Drew Barrymore (Erin) as I am a great fan of her and once again, she has rocked with her awesome attitude, romance, funny acting which has made many more hearts to fall for her. Along with Barrymore, the cute looking Justin Long ( Garrett) a sweet chap who has equally performed to make this movie breezy and romantic one.

Boss Engira Baskaran - A Reaction By Sreeni R

I've been expecting for its release since i saw its trailer while watching Naan Mahaan Alla. To some extent it keeps up to its promise. Honestly i did not see Siva Manasula Shakthi and so i had no expectations when i entered the hall. It was quite an experience and i did learn a few things as a budding filmmaker.

The film's story is wafer thin and so i'm gonna reveal it because it does not any sense even if i do hold it back.

Boss is a average guy, who is one Naadhaari, Oodhaari fellow (Means a carefree guy with no responsibilities whatsoever, and a lazy bum) whose best friend is Santhanam, a proud owner of a Saloon named “Thala-Thalapathi”. Boss's elder brother is a veterinary doctor and he marries a girl whose sister happens to be Nayanthara with whom our Boss has fallen in love with. Now Boss and Nayan like each other and This brings the film to a state which demands Boss to become more responsible in life so that he can impress his Sister in Law and Nayan's Father.

Aananda Deepavali - Sound of Joy

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Aananda Deepavali the word in itself spells joy devoid of all negative aspects of the world. The most beautiful thing that one could come across is the smile of the child. We were proud to be a part of this event that was determined to make every child involved to bounce with joy.

       We got the contact of this organization through a good friend of mine Ramya. She along with Anu introduced us to the person in charge of the Event Ananda Deepavali. They needed people to cover the event were Major organizations along with members of the Film Fraternity joined hands to support the children who lack adequate support. We were prepared to do our bit on behalf of Yellow Line Team.

T Nagar - The Heartbeat of Chennai.

This is Yellow Line Pictures's maiden production effort. It was an amazing experience. More than calling it a documentary we would like to call it a personal exploration of the place. Hope you'll enjoy our Film.

***For better viewing experience please let youtube buffer the complete video, before vieweing***

An Hour At The Brigade

Chennai's Support for Anna Hazare's People's Movement Against CORRUPTION

Peepli Live - A Review By Jaik M

One gets into a film theatre these days expecting the predictable graphics and special effects which has become the norm of Bollywood films. Wafer thin story garnished with beautiful sets and skimpy clad heroines with sizzling scenes doing its rounds in TV channels and not to mention the ever happening gossip columns. Films which has the potential to speak the language of the people had at times forgotten the alphabets. I entered the hall with of course some expectation after all this is one from the stable of Amir Khan Productions the guy who has stood the test of time managing to give products that speak the language quite clearly.

Eesan - A Review By Sreeni R

Sasikumar was applauded for his effort in Subramaniapuram and obviously people had high hopes on this one. Well to be very frank, i never liked Subramaniapuram very much and i would only call it a decent film.

Sasikumar had a great responsibility this time around, To save his fame and at the same time save the Film. Oh yeah and he unfortunately failed to do both.

The film starts off with the scene where Chezhiyan's (Vaibhav) friends tease a girl they met at the party that night on the road, she on the scooty and they in a scorpio. Ofcourse it leads to an accident and they get arrested and Vaibhav helps them get out without a scratch as his father is a Minister (Now what minister was he??? am clueless). Chezhiyan falls in love (is it so?) with the daughter of a Businessman from Bangalore (Mallya's legs pulled here) who does not like the Minister as they don have the status (yawnnnn) The minister now influenced by his assistant plans and somehow manages to Make the Businessman understand that Their children's life is more important than theirs and that they should forget abt all their earlier problems (which arises as the businessman refuses to give a proper cut to the Minister on a Company project). Ofcourse the minister does all this for all that money the businessman has. Now as this keeps goin like a snail there comes a day when Chezhiyan gets kidnapped. Now there is this Police officer Mr.Sangaiyya (Samudhirakani) being assigned to find him (the only good guy in the film other than the protagonist). He investigates and finds out that the killer is none other than Mr.Eesan (a 11th std kid who is the lil brother of the Heroine who is dumb and wujynmgjho is raped and killed by Chezhiyan and his friend Vinod). Now sangaiyya finds him and the bad guys find him too and the usual cinematic climax. This is the story of Eesan.

Now lets analyse the film.

The moment they revealed the face of the so called all powerful Dheivam the villain Minister i started laughing, because he looked like a joke. Not to mention i got some stares from my neighbors. Okay half way into the movie nobody had a clue what the film is all about.

Music was bad. Excuse me people, kindly get the rite people for the rite job. The film is about PUB culture and the music never portrayed the culture. James Vasanthan is a great guy, but you see one can never be the Master of all.

Cinematography was good in parts and in all other places it was completely stripped off colors and i have no idea why they had to do it. Too many Crane shots brothers, and it made no sense to me. Sometimes they were trying to complete the entire scene in a shot and it was not very smooth. I've seen shots made like this before and they are supposed to be silky smooth. If you can't then dont because people actually know what is Good and Bad.

Editing was also equally sluggish to add to the already irritating narrative.

Mr.Sasi Kumar failed this time. I dont know; there could be people who think this film is good. But its upto them. I completely hate this film.

Abhinaya was totally cool. I seriously loved her on screen. She has a great screen presence and she did an amazing job with her role.

Now there is one particular thing that i would like filmmakers to follow. To explain us Who is Who and what is happening on screen. Actually flashback scene starts with a song and it shows (or tries to show) the love and bonding between the Sister Poorni (Abhinaya) and Eesan her brother, but you know what i seriously got confused whether they are siblings or lovers because nothing is established before the scene and one could easily imagine that They are Lovers. (thappu thappu... Kannathula pottukitten)

My verdict...
Please go watch this film if you wanna know that PUBS could be BORING, GIRLS could be SENSELESS MORONS, 120 mins could look like 240 mins, SCENES could be just like that MADE UP, IRRITATING SUSPENSES, VAGUE PUPOSELESS STORY LINE, a COMICAL villain (which was not intended), CLICHES CLICHES CLICHES!!!

This is my harshest review till date and i usually never criticize a film so much but "Eesan" is an exception. It is in one aspect much much more better than "Sindhu Samaveli" for which i couldn't even write a review.

Ufff... Now Sreeni please cool down... hmmm...