it tells the story of textile mill workers and will provide a fresh backdrop says director dhanapal padmanabhan also politically we feel let down as there is no ideology says vangal once the shot was canned he released it into a pond my film krishnaveni panjaalai which will be released soon is set in the late 1950s and thats why padmanabhan scouted around for old factories with machinery in udumalpet near coimbatore to shoot his film apart from the megabudget rajinikanthstarrer raana a host of upcoming releases are set in a particular era and its social milieu it is a love story but since it was set in the 60s i had to capture village life with all its animals including the vilangu eel says sarkunam from leafing through dusty history books to interviewing oldtimers to find out how tamils made bindis from rice powder more scriptwriters and directors are going back in time to recreate the past and tell realistic tales the backdrop and look are as important as the story i had a clearcut script from the beginning he says we should have more period movies as tamils have a 2000year history says vasanthabalan once he figured out that procuring an eel at aruppukottai near virudhunagar during shoot would be impossible sarkunam got one during the preproduction time built a small tank and fed it worms the period elements in 2010 movie madrasapattinam was not done well but it did fairly well in theatres because the audience also felt good going back in to the past she adds most of the creative people are going back to the past to figure out what went wrong and also to recapture the tamil pride and sense of identity she says the sellingpoint is nostalgia plus a look that is rooted in reality the audience now demands something different but the story does not end with getting the right fish they were looked at in awe and many including me grew up in typical workers quarters which had a life of its own he says filmmaker a sarkunam reared an eel for three months in his backyard in thanjavur while director vasanthabalan has been looking through 18th century line drawings for the past two years the upcoming releases indicate growth of the tamil film industry which is willing to fund new subjects they havent discovered new hobbies but were doing research for period films that are to be released soon it is history especially the longing for good old days that could be the reason behind storytellers coming up with period movies says uma vangal filmmaker and professor at lv prasad film and tv academy the 1950s was the golden period of the textile industry and the lives of mill workers were not different from that of software professionals now attention to detail is what led to director sarkunam ending up with the guardianship of an eel for his upcoming release vaagai sooda vaa set in a south tamil nadu village