Ace filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnana in conversation with Rajya Sabha TV anchor Syed Mohd Irfan. It was his interest in drama, which lead Adoor Gopalakrishnan to take up the direction course in 1962 at the FTII at Pune, thinking that it would help him to enhance his skills in stage productions. But there he found that stage plays and cinema are entirely different mediums. Notable 'literary' films like Neelakuyil, Chemeen and Oolavum Theeravum produced before Adoor's first film, but all had the regular ingredients of popular cinema, highly dramatic plot and song-dance sequences. Swayamvaram was a rejection of all these populist formulas. This radically different film was reluctantly taken by the mass. Only a minority eagerly waiting for a change in this powerful medium welcomed the film. Apart from his films, Adoor's major contribution towards introducing a new cinema culture in Kerala was the constitution of the first Film Society in Kerala, 'Chitralekha'. He also took active part in the constitution of 'Chitralekha', Kerala's first Film Co-operative Society for film production. These movements triggered a fresh wave of good films, often termed 'art films' by directors like Aravindan, PA Becker, KG George, Pavithran, Raveendran etc. Before Swayamvaram Adoor had made his first short film The Myth of 50 Sec duration for a festival in Montreal. His second short film And Man Created was 'Chitralekha's' first production. He also directed numerous documentaries for different <b>...</b>
A five-day film festival curated by renowned Malayalam filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan will begin here tomorrow during the last week of the three-month-long Kochi-Muziris Biennale that is now drawing to a close. Ten movies will feature in the event ...
Aptly and innovatively, the installation they completed yesterday is on seawater, adjacent to the main venue of the biennale. The line-up of objects floating alongside a fence of the Aspinwall House in Fort Kochi showcases images of local fishermen who ...
KOCHI: Noted director AdoorGopalakrishnan will curate the film festival being organized as part of the Kochi-MuzirisBiennale. The festival, which will begin on Saturday at the Children's Park theatre in Marine Drive, will screen 10 world classics, and ...
The video shows veteran film director Adoor Gopalakrishnan, popular actor Mammooty and Mridangam maestro Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman getting D.Litt degree of Ke...
Ahead of the event organized in the Aspinwall House at Fort Kochi as a tribute to late Malayali musician H Mehaboob, the Mumbai-based designer lauded the three-month extravaganza, saying that India's pioneering biennale retained a "Kerala feel" to it ...
On Monday, the main venue of the biennale got an addition to its installations as three Mumbai-based artistes installed a set of floating images on the seawater adjacent to the Aspinwall House in Fort Kochi. Sandeep More, Nilesh Vishwakarma and Deven ...
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