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Jun 23, 2012, 7:26:19 AM (12 years ago)

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Adoor Gopalakrishnan

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+'''Adoor Gopalakrishnan''', (b. 1941)
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+Malayalam director born in Adoor, Kerala.
+Stage début as actor aged 8. Graduated from
+Gandhigram Rural University (1960) having
+produced over 20 plays, including ones he
+wrote himself. Notable among these was
+Godothe Kathe, adapting Beckett’s Waiting For
+Godot, with Gopi. Resigned from government
+job and graduated from the FTII (1965).
+Founder and president of the Chitralekha Film
+Co-op in Trivandrum (1965), the first of its kind
+in India, set up by FTII graduates as a
+production-distribution centre for personal
+films outside the commercial sector. In the mid-
+70s, a laboratory was added to the Trivandrum
+studio. Writes his own scripts, two of which
+(Elippathayam and Mukha Mukham) were
+published in English by Seagull Books in
+Calcutta (1985). Films show an emphasis on
+psychology depicted through gesture (cf. S.
+Ray). Theorised his approach in Cinemayude
+Lokam (1983). The reformist dimension of his
+work achieves an extra edge given the relative
+absence of that tradition in Travancore’s
+literature. Travancore’s delayed entry into the
+nationalist mainstream and its sudden
+transformation from a feudal state ruled by
+Dewan C.P. Ramaswamy Aiyer into one run by
+a CPI government, created a break in Kerala’s
+history which animates his films: e.g. his
+portrayal of the Nair community of former rent
+collectors in Elippathayam and of the
+Communist movement itself in Mukha
+Mukham and Mathilukal.
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+
+'''FILMOGRAPHY''': 1965: A Great Day (Sh);
+1968: And Man Created (Doc); Danger At
+Your Doorstep (Doc); 1969: Towards National
+STD (Doc); 1972: Swayamvaram; 1974:
+Guru Chengannur (Doc); 1975: Past in
+Perspective (Doc); 1977: The Myth (Doc);
+Kodiyettam; 1979: Yakshagana (Doc); 1980:
+The Chola Heritage (Doc); 1981:
+Elippathayam; 1982: Krishnattam (Doc);
+1984: Mukha Mukham; 1987: Anantaram;
+1989: Mathilukal; 1993: Vidheyan; 1995:
+Kathapurushan.
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+[[Director]]