Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Pammal Vijayaranga Sambandham Mudaliar

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Jun 26, 2012, 7:22:28 PM (12 years ago)

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Pammal Vijayaranga Sambandham Mudaliar

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+'''Pammal Vijayaranga Sambandham Mudaliar (1872-1964)'''
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+Influential Tamil director; former lawyer and
+dramatist. Founded the amateur theatre group
+Suguna Vilas Sabha (1904), staging e.g.
+Shakespeare and Sanskrit classics in the
+Victoria Public Hall, Madras. Wrote c.68 plays
+staged for the city’s political and cultural élite.
+Many of his plays were filmed, often directly
+from the stage: e.g. Sarvottam Badami’s
+Galava Rishi (1932), the second Tamil sound
+feature, and Mudaliar’s own directions Sati
+Sulochana and Manohara. Other films based
+on his plays, setting the norms for an élite,
+‘apolitical’ entertainment, include Prafulla
+Ghosh’s Ratnavali (1935), M.L. Tandon’s
+Yayati (1938), T.R. Raghunath’s Ramalinga
+Swamigal (1939), K.S. Mani’s Chandrahari
+(1941), Murugadasa’s Urvashi Sahasam
+(1940), Duncan’s Daasi Penn (1943), A.V.
+Meiyappan’s Sabhapati (1941) and Vethala
+Ulagam (1948). Published two books on Tamil
+film in 1937.
+
+
+'''FILMOGRAPHY''' (* also act): 1934: Sati
+Sulochana; 1936: Manohara*.
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+[[Director]]