'''Pammal Vijayaranga Sambandham Mudaliar (1872-1964)'''


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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