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P. C. Sreeram is a Director, Scriptwriter, Co-Director, Director of Photography and Cinematography Indian born on 26 january 1956 at Chennai (Inde)
P. C. Sreeram (born 26 January 1956) is an Indian cinematographer and film director who works mainly in the Tamil film industry. A student of Madras Film Institute, Sreeram is widely regarded as the "Guru of Cinematography" (English: (lit.) The mentor of cinematography). Apart from his cinematographic works, he was much appreciated for his directorial venture Kuruthipunal which was submitted by India as its official entry to the Oscars in 1996. Sreeram is well known for his association with Mani Ratnam and received critical acclaim for his work in films such as Mouna Ragam, Nayagan, Agni Natchathiram and Geetanjali. He has worked as a cinematographer in over 30 films spanning across Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi, besides directing three films and a few TV commercials.
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Dhaam Dhoom (2008)
, 2h30Directed by P. C. Sreeram, Jeeva
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Jayam Ravi, Kangana Ranaut, Jayaram, Raai Laxmi, Anu Hasan, Srinath
Rating49%
Gautham Subramaniam (Jayam Ravi) is a doctor from an Indian family who lives in Chennai. Since his father (Nizhagal Ravi) and mother are doctors, he wanted to become a doctor. Gautham gets an opportunity from the Government of India to go to Russia to represent India in a week long medical conference, along with five other young doctors. Gautham is delighted to receive this offer and packs his bags to fly to Russia. Meanwhile, his beloved is introduced on the frame which happens to be Shenba (Kangana Ranaut). She happens to be the same village girl in which Gautham's sister Sarasu, (Anu Haasan) resides with her husband (Chetan) and so they two meet and fall in love. Despite initial frictions between her father and uncle (Mahadevan and Bose Venkat) with Gautham, they eventually agree to get the pair married. Gautham’s parents agree to the marriage and as a happy man Gautham is ready to marry Shenba after his return to India from his Russia trip.
Vaanam Vasappadum (2004)
Directed by P. C. Sreeram
Genres Drama
Actors Karthik Kumar, Revathi, Nassar, Vijayakumar, Thalaivaasal Vijay, Kovai Sarala
Rating66%
Karthik, a young lawyer falls in love with Poongothai, daughter of a businessman Vijayakumar. Vijayakumar and Poongothai's sister run a Multi-level marketing and are imprisoned for false accusations. Karthik brings Poongothai to his parents and seeks the permission from them – Nasser, a speech impaired person and Revathy, his mother. Karthik and Poongothai eventually get married after his parents consent.
Kuruthipunal (1995)
, 2h23Directed by P. C. Sreeram
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism
Actors Arjun Sarja, Kamal Haasan, Nassar, Gautami, Geetha, Nizhalgal Ravi
Rating85%
Two honest and bold police officers Adhi Narayanan (Kamal Hassan) and Abbas (Arjun) device a master plan to bring in control the Terrorist Groups and send two secret vigilance officers, named Anand and Shiva on an operation called Operation "Dhanush". The objective is to infiltrate a terror group headed by a man named Badri, and send information back to Abbas. A leak from inside the police camp leads the terrorist to oust Anand as a spy but before they could torture him and get the information of the second spy, he commits suicide.
Meera (1992)
, 2h22Directed by P. C. Sreeram
Genres Romance
Actors Vikram, Aishwarya, Tarun Kumar, R. Sarathkumar, Janagaraj, Chinni Jayanth
Rating70%
Meera is in a college and pregnant nearing labour. Here Meera tells her story of how she got to this point in a flashback.
Scriptwriter
Meera (1992)
, 2h22Directed by P. C. Sreeram
Genres Romance
Actors Vikram, Aishwarya, Tarun Kumar, R. Sarathkumar, Janagaraj, Chinni Jayanth
Rating70%
Meera is in a college and pregnant nearing labour. Here Meera tells her story of how she got to this point in a flashback.
Director
Dhaam Dhoom (2008)
, 2h30Directed by P. C. Sreeram, Jeeva
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Jayam Ravi, Kangana Ranaut, Jayaram, Raai Laxmi, Anu Hasan, Srinath
Roles Co-Director
Rating49%
Gautham Subramaniam (Jayam Ravi) is a doctor from an Indian family who lives in Chennai. Since his father (Nizhagal Ravi) and mother are doctors, he wanted to become a doctor. Gautham gets an opportunity from the Government of India to go to Russia to represent India in a week long medical conference, along with five other young doctors. Gautham is delighted to receive this offer and packs his bags to fly to Russia. Meanwhile, his beloved is introduced on the frame which happens to be Shenba (Kangana Ranaut). She happens to be the same village girl in which Gautham's sister Sarasu, (Anu Haasan) resides with her husband (Chetan) and so they two meet and fall in love. Despite initial frictions between her father and uncle (Mahadevan and Bose Venkat) with Gautham, they eventually agree to get the pair married. Gautham’s parents agree to the marriage and as a happy man Gautham is ready to marry Shenba after his return to India from his Russia trip.
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Ki & Ka (2016)
Directed by R. Balakrishnan
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Rajat Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56%
O Kadhal Kanmani (2015)
, 2h18Directed by Mani Ratnam
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Dulquer Salmaan, Nithya Menen, Prakash Raj, Kanika, Vinodhini, Ramya Subramanian
Roles Director of Photography
Rating73%
Deux jeunes gens, Aadhi et Tara tombent amoureux, l'un de l'autre. Les jeunes amoureux doivent trouver le parfait équilibre entre la vision moderne du couple et celle de l'Inde millénaire rattrapé par la mondialisation.
O Kadhal Kanmani (2015)
, 2h18Directed by Mani Ratnam
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Dulquer Salmaan, Nithya Menen, Prakash Raj, Ramya Subramanian, Kanika, Vinodhini
Roles Director of Photography
Rating73%
Adithya Varadarajan (Dulquer Salmaan) is a video game developer, who moves to Mumbai and meets Tara Kalingarayar (Nithya Menen). They agree that marriage is not for them and decide to have live-in relationship instead, before they go out their separate ways for their respective careers.
I (2015)
, 3h8Directed by S. Shankar
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Vikram, Suresh Gopi, Upen Patel, Amy Jackson, Prabhu, Power Star Srinivasan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating73%
Lingesan (Vikram) is a bodybuilder from the suburbs of Chennai, whose main ambition is to become Mr. India. He wins the title of Mr. Tamil Nadu, which gives him entry to the Mr. India pageant. He is infatuated by Diya (Amy Jackson), a leading supermodel. Diya is soon blacklisted and all her advertisement film contracts are cancelled by John (Upen Patel), her co-star in all her advertisements, after she constantly rejected his advances. To save her career, Diya decides to replace John with Lingesan, whom she had earlier met at one of her shoots, as her co-star for her next advertisement. Lingesan agrees, sacrificing his Mr. India ambitions in the process.
Shamitabh (2015)
Directed by R. Balakrishnan
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Dhanush, Akshara Haasan, Rekha, Abhinaya, Mahesh Bhatt
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66%
Daanish (Dhanush), born mute in rural Igatpuri, loves films. He acts out scenes before his class, amazing his peers and teacher, and spends all his time in the local Paradise theatre. He even tries to board a Mumbai bus to go become a film star but is pulled off by his mother's friends. When he grows up, Daanish brings pakodas to the local video-store owner and watches films every day. His mother feigns illness and keeps him from going to Mumbai but when she dies, Daanish leaves for Mumbai.
Ishq (2012)
Directed by Vikram Kumar
Genres Romance
Actors Nithin Reddy, Nithya Menen, Ajay, Sindhu Tolani, Rohini, Nagineedu Vellanki
Roles Director of Photography
Rating73%
The movie begins with a scene where the injured Siva (Ajay) is being rushed to the hospital. His father (Nagineedu), comes to the hospital and scolds him for his rogue behavior and disowns him and says that he will only return if Siva changes. It turns out that Siva had failed in a love affair with a girl named Divya. Three years later Rahul (Nitin) is a very jovial and friendly guy who likes to have fun and play practical jokes. He studies in Delhi and has just finished semester exams and heads back to Hyderabad for vacation where his family lives. Meanwhile Priya (Nithya Menen), a beautiful and lively girl, is going to Hyderabad to take her semester exams and meet her brother. Rahul sees Priya at a traffic jam on the way to the airport, but does not quite see her face. Priya sees Rahul recovering a toy for a child. She is impressed, but she does not get to see his face either. But she collects his cap after Rahul loses it while recovering the toy. At the airport, Rahul plays a prank on Priya after he recognizes her by her bracelets and tattoo he saw at the traffic jam which annoys Priya. While flying to Hyderabad he falls for her. Unexpected circumstances force their plane to land in Goa. There, Rahul apologizes for his behavior. Priya recognizes Rahul as the person who recovered the toy for the child at the traffic jam after Rahul recognizes his cap. Priya then starts being friendly with Rahul.
Paa (2009)
, 2h13Directed by R. Balakrishnan
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Paresh Rawal, Arundhati Nag, Jaya Bachchan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70%
Auro (Amitabh Bachchan) is an intelligent and witty 12-year-old boy with an extremely rare genetic disorder called progeria. Mentally he is twelve and very normal, but physically he looks five times older. In spite of his condition, Auro is a very happy boy. He lives with his mother Vidya (Vidya Balan), who is a gynaecologist. Amol Arte (Abhishek Bachchan) is a young, cold-blooded politician. He is out to prove to the world that "politics" is not a bad word. He is a man with a mission. Auro is Amol's son; however, Vidya conceals this from him. Amol meets Auro when he visits the boy's school as a chief guest. He comes on the occasion of a competition on the "visionary of India". Amol decides Auro as the winner, impressed by the white globe he made. But being with such a big politician Auro was found by the media. The next day the media tries to enter his school. Auro, annoyed at this, sends him an e-mail. Amol reads it and takes a restraining order from High Court stating that nobody can disturb him without permission. Auro, relieved, tells him of his desire to visit the president's house. But due Amol's political issues he fails to make it on the decided day. Auro, however, loses confidence in him but later agrees to go to Delhi with him although he now knows that Amol is his father. Though Amol does not know that Auro is his son, he takes him to Delhi to see the president's house. Auro, who knows the truth, tries to get his mother and father back together, but Vidya resists, still hurt by the fact that Amol wanted her to have an abortion when they first found out she was pregnant. Amol realises his mistake though, and proposes to Vidya, as he is still in love with her. He stays by Auro's side when he finds out that Auro is his son. Auro's health begins to deteriorate as he reaches his 13th birthday, his physical defects catching up. However, he is finally able to reunite his mother and father once again as Vidya gives in to her feelings for Amol and her motherly love for Auro. Auro, succumbing to his disease, says his last words "Maa" and "Paa" before dying with a satisfied smile.
Yavarum Nalam (2009)
, 2h17Directed by Vikram Kumar
Genres Drama, Horror
Actors R. Madhavan, Neetu Chandra, Poonam Dhillon, Sachin Khedekar, Deepak Dobriyal, Murali Sharma
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72%
Manohar moves into a new apartment, 13B, on the 13th floor with his family, fulfilling his life's biggest dream. But they are greeted by a series of small but strange incidents (such as milk getting spoiled), which are regarded as inauspicious by his family but shrugged off by an excited Manohar. The elevator in the apartment works for everyone in the building except Manohar, which bothers him.
Dhaam Dhoom (2008)
, 2h30Directed by P. C. Sreeram, Jeeva
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Jayam Ravi, Kangana Ranaut, Jayaram, Raai Laxmi, Anu Hasan, Srinath
Roles Director of Photography
Rating49%
Gautham Subramaniam (Jayam Ravi) is a doctor from an Indian family who lives in Chennai. Since his father (Nizhagal Ravi) and mother are doctors, he wanted to become a doctor. Gautham gets an opportunity from the Government of India to go to Russia to represent India in a week long medical conference, along with five other young doctors. Gautham is delighted to receive this offer and packs his bags to fly to Russia. Meanwhile, his beloved is introduced on the frame which happens to be Shenba (Kangana Ranaut). She happens to be the same village girl in which Gautham's sister Sarasu, (Anu Haasan) resides with her husband (Chetan) and so they two meet and fall in love. Despite initial frictions between her father and uncle (Mahadevan and Bose Venkat) with Gautham, they eventually agree to get the pair married. Gautham’s parents agree to the marriage and as a happy man Gautham is ready to marry Shenba after his return to India from his Russia trip.