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Ponniyin Selvan book was a historical-fiction considered to be amongst the greatest Tamil book ever. So it's a good Story, set in 10th Century, Chola dynasty, which is considered as the time when Tamil language, art, architecture and culture reached it's pinnacle. Cholas amongst the greatest rulers the world has ever seen. The story is a fiction based on real characters and some real incidents. So the movie adaptation delivered any of these?

There are many good things. First the ensemble cast and lead characters performances, They've all done a good job. Then the cinematography, costume design and art work looked very good..

But are they enough to connect with the audience? Unfortunately not. There are two main issues. One is the lead female cast. Though they acted well, they looked like cat walk models with loads of makeup and lipstick. They looked more like a social media posters than a Tamil historical characters. Also there was no conviction or command or depth in their dialogue delivery.

Second biggest disappointment is the music. If you listen to the music alone, you would think the songs are not bad and background music is fine. But does it connect with the emotion of the scene or the plot?. I'm afraid not. The music is very contemporary and westernized, nothing feels like historical Tamil culture from Chola times. And the music is present all over the movie, in every scene, very loud, often makes it difficult to hear the dialogues, detached from the emotion. Which made the whole experience overwhelmingly noisy and messed up. Almost typical AR Rahman work. It would work for any modern film, sadly not for this film.

Now about direction - we all know Maniratham is a master filmmaker, technician and great at delivering emotional films. But he definitely didn't do these with this film. Some action scenes resembles Hollywood films. Some locations are repeated from his old films, which ruins the authenticity. Art works looked like they were just painted the day before shooting, there was no wear and tear or depth in it. Also there was clear effort on reducing costs, including minimizing whats shown on screen.

Manirathnam did a movie called Thalapathi in 1991, in which a popular song called "Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu". At the end of the song there are few lines from "Tevaram", placed for that scene. Tevaram is a collection of poems/hymns from around 10th century, developed under Cholas. This is the same Chola period this movie was set in. The director who thought of it then, couldn't do it in a movie that needs rich technical backing specifically in music .

Overall, it was great opportunity to make an elite Tamil film at the highest standard on silver-screen, but what Manirathnam gave us is a TV drama.

I'm not in to those so called 'romantic' films, because generally it's about a stupid, drunk girl, with no likable qualities, wait for that perfect knight in shining armor. But You've Got Mail is not one of those films.

Finally I watched it on TV and my first thoughts were 'how did I miss this film for this long!'. Yes it's about love, but with honesty, simplicity and passion. Firstly I thought the writing and direction was excellent, the dialogues evolves naturally. Joe - we all know Tome Hanks is a great actor, he nailed it. Kathleen - is well written. Lovely, intelligent, honest, courageous, genuine, passionate about what she does. She tries to run the book shop with lot of love and memory and lives a small but meaningfull life. This girl doesn't need heavy makeup, branded clothes, high heels to feel confident and feel good about herself. I thought Meg Ryan performed it absolutely brilliantly. She played it so subtly with her awesome expressions and we can understand her feelings. Especially in the coffee shop scene, the scene she visits Fox's shop, the last day at the shop scene - it was very moving, I felt heartbroken for her. But it wasn't her end, she comes back strong. The last 30-45min were really lovely with right dose of humor, emotion and love and was very pleasant.

This film is also about about how big money businesses crushing the small independent businesses, and how people judge each other quickly in circumstances without knowing about them and feel hatred, which is the world we presently live in. With online dating, people don't even talk in person anymore and simply gets judged by their profile pictures.

Overall, it's a simple, honest film, in a calm pace, with lovely characters played by brilliant actors, enough emotion and lot of warmth and very refreshing. Nora Ephron deserves all the applauds for putting it all together. This film would connect the audience if it had released now.

25 years ago we witnessed a never seen before movie masterpiece from Steven Spielberg with full of surprises and thrills which took us back 65 million years. It's almost impossible to make sequel to give the same excitement. But fans just wants to see more of it and I'm glad we're getting it.

Fallen Kingdoms story is pretty much revealed in the trailer. To be honest it was an exciting and enjoyable ride. I thought the first half was excellent, the whole island getting destroyed by the volcano was showed well as well as showing all the animals we want to see. Also it made me feel sad to see the beloved animals getting killed in the catastrophe, especially the scene when the ship departs island and a helpless Brachiosaurus looks at them from the edge of the dock with entire island behind her on fire. It was moving.

The rest of the story is typical, rich international co-operates trying to make money at the expense of living things, which was not as good as the first half, but decent enough to watch. Thanks to some funny moments, good performances especially by that little girl, raptor Blue and good CGI. They've clearly tried to show respect to the original series and as well as satisfying the fans.

Overall, super first half , awesome GCI and a visual treat. The story could have been better. Unlike other movies where we saw dinosaurs only here and there, in this one you see them almost in very scene. In Jurassic world its all about the what you see (can I say I enjoyed it far more than Black Panther).