Vintage Heritage the film club that always travels back in time showed Parijatham made in 1950 in its June edition that also marked its seventeenth anniversary. It is no mean achievement for V H considering the minimum support the organisers have had in running it. The film should not be confused with the recent flick directed by K.Bagyaraj bearing the same title. This is a T.R.Mahalingam-M.V.Rajamma and B.S.Saroja starrer. It looks like the film has three story lines. Read More

Vintage Heritage is a seventeen year old unique film club headed by M.Sarveswaran and Sundaram that shows old, that is, too old Tamil films every month to its members. On 31st May it showed the film Pattinathaar produced in 1936 by K.Sundaram under the banner Vel Pictures. Scripted and directed by T.C.Vadivel Naciker, Pattinathar is not only among the earliest of Tamil talkies (the first Tamil talkie Kalidas had come out in 1931) but the earliest extant Tamil talkie. In this sense it is in the league of the rarest of rare films. But alas, the existing version is not the original length of twenty one reels but a short one that plays for only about eighty minutes.Read More