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	Manas: Culture, Indian Cinema- Adoor Gopalakrishnan
		door Gopalakrishnan was born in 1941 into a family of patrons of the classical dance, Kathakali, in Adoor, Kerala.
		Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Kodiyettam ("Ascent", 1977) came as a breath of fresh air with its simple and sincere approach to the crumbling Nair community who were once the lords of Kerala.
		Gopalakrishnan examined this movement and its conflict with the feudal sysytem in Mukha Mukham ("Face to Face") in 1987.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/Culture/Cinema/AdoorG.html (407 words)

	teamworks - emag - Adoor Gopalakrishnan - Journey Through Images - Victor Basu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Adoor tells that there is an idealist revolutionary within all of us and that dies of time as you grow older with baggage of the society irrespective of the political belief or socio cultural standing of an individual.
		Adoor did it with total honesty as he shows the anxiety of a feudal as he sees in front of his eyes loosing the social stature he enjoined or perhaps had been able to forcefully kept so far.
		Adoor Gopalakrishnan is one of the true successors of Ray who always believed the great works remain in its true understanding of the event you depict to create your cinema not the unusualness of the event.
	www.lacefilms.org /adoor.asp (954 words)

	Dada Saheb Phalke award, a recognition for Malayalam cinema, says Adoor Gopalakrishnan:- - News - Webindia123.com
		Noted art cinema director Adoor Gopalakrishnan, who has been selected for the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award 2004 for his contribution to cinema, on Tuesday said that the award should be seen as a recognition for the popularity of Malayalam cinema.
		Kerala-born Adoor is one of the most admired Indian filmmakers in the world of cinema after Satyajit Ray, and his impressive debut in 1972 with "Swayamvaram" marked a beginning of a rich repertoire.
		Adoor's films were among the pioneering efforts in new age cinema, his work defining so-called "parallel" cinema that competed with commercial films in the 1970s through 1990s.
	news.webindia123.com /news/showdetails.asp?id=113742&cat=Entertainment (323 words)

	Chaosmag Interview: Adoor Gopalakrishnan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Adoor: I think it would be wrong to condemn the society as a whole for its lack of sensitivity.
		Adoor: There are of course very many filmmakers who make interesting debut films and later turn to do mindless exercises in the hope of becoming successful at the box office.
		Adoor: The charkha (the spinning wheel) and the yarn spun on it stood for austerity, simplicity, idealism and also freedom as wearing swadeshi clothes was one of the means of declaring the end of dependence on the British- made goods.
	www.chaosmag.net /adoor_interview.html (2045 words)

	Adoor Gopalakrishnan
		Adoor Gopalakrishnan, who has blazed the celluloid with a string of meaningful pictures, received the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for 2004 for his outstanding contribution in the field of Indian Cinema as President APJ Abdul Kalam presented the National Film Awards 2004 to the cream of mainstream and creative cinema.
		The 64-year-old Adoor, one of the torchbearers of Indian creative cinema, was given a standing ovation by a packed audience at the imposing Vigyan Bhavan as he was bestowed the country's highest award for cinematic genius.
		Adoor Gopalakrishnan (b.on 3rd June,1941) renowned as the master in film field, placed Malayalam cinema in the world map.
	www.keral.com /celebrities/adoor/index.htm (232 words)

	Adoor Gopalakrishnan One of the leading lights of the New Indian Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of the leading lights of the New Indian Cinema, Adoor Gopalakrishnan was born in 1941.
		Adoor's protagonists are men and women who usually function outside the contexts of mainstream society, their lives governed by complex forces that are sometimes self-generated but more often beyond their comprehension or control.
		Adoor offers a more political reading of the outsider theme in Face to Face (Mukhamukham) where a stranger arrives one night in a small village and becomes the local hero by mobilizing the workers of a factory.
	www.kagw.com /Adoor/about_adoor.htm (1048 words)

	Geetha Ganapathy-Doré's Blog - Geetha Ganapathy-Doré web blogs, Geetha Ganapathy-Doré blogger in India
		Adoor Gopalakrishnan, who has the reputation of being Satyajit Ray's spiritual heir, is the second Indian film maker after Satyajit Ray to receive the French honour "Commandeur des Arts et Lettres".
		It was coproduced by Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Joel Farges, a French author, filmmaker, producer and critic of Indian cinema.
		Adoor Gopalakrishnan's film is set in the pre-independence era, in the princely state of Travancore in the 1940s.
	www.sulekha.com /expressions/articledesc.asp?cid=307077 (1634 words)

	Adoor Gopalakrishnan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Elippathayam, his third film, Adoor Gopalakrishnan had come a long way from the urban battleground of his first feature, Swayamraram, where his protagonists are helpless victims of a warped environment, struggling for a truthful relationship amidst the daily untruth of the city.
		Adoor's next film, Mathilukal, is based on a brief interlude in the life of Vaikom Muhammed Basheer, one of the most original writers from Kerala.
		In this powerful commentry on his own times, Adoor goes back to the politically turbulent years between 1937 and 1980, charting Kunjunni's journey through life against the background of the independence movement, and later the rise and fall of the left movement in Kerala.
	filmindia.indonet.com /filmmakers/adoor/adoor.html (934 words)

	indianwriting: Adoor Gopalakrishnan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The first Malayalam film with sound was made in 1938, three years before Adoor Gopalakrishnan was born.
		Born into a family steeped in the Kathakali tradition, Gopalakrishnan's childhood was spent on and behind the stage.
		In Anantharam ("Monologue", 1987), Gopalakrishnan uses a first-person narrative style, with the narration moving between planes of the imagination.
	indianwriting.blogspot.com /2005/11/adoor-gopalakrishnan.html (1630 words)

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		Adoor's guts is admirable in an age when film-makers are relentlessly panning the easy way out, bending over to please, and all for the moolah.
		Adoor hopes that the concept of multiplexes - now being mooted - would have a corner for small films, both fiction and non-fiction.
		However, it is men like Adoor Gopalakrishnan who are the last vestiges of hope in a murky scenario that appears to be getting darker with the ticking of time.
	www.gautamanbhaskaran.com /gb/adoorgopalakrishnan.html (883 words)

	TIME Asia Print Page: Knee Deep in the New Wave -- May 5, 2003 / Vol. 161 No. 17 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Adoor, born in 1941 to a feudal family in a Kerala village that's also called Adoor, was writing and acting in plays from the age of eight.
		Adoor was planning to study drama, a more respectable art form, when he made an unpleasant discovery: to attend the school in Delhi, he had to speak fluent Hindi.
		It's not that Adoor truly thinks segments of his audience are stupid (he prefers the term "uninitiated"); again and again he tells me that he wants more exposure in India.
	time.com /time/asia/magazine/printout/0,13675,501030505-447254,00.html (1698 words)

	Adoor Gopalakrishnan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is hard to find a single element extraneous to his purpose, where the action, the locale, the time and space, the sparse dialogue and spartan music, all come together in one startling, unified vision.
		For Adoor it was the story of how a writer, an artist, surrounded by prison walls, can transcend them with his creativity.
		Among the many documentaries made by Adoor Gopalakrishnan is Eau Ganga (Ganga Water), an impressionistic film which won the Grand Prix at the Cinema du Reel festival in France.
	216.152.71.145 /filmmakers/adoor/adoor.html (934 words)

	Review - Kalamandalam Raman Kutty Nair, A documentary film by Adoor Gopalakrishnan - Vasanthi Sankaranarayanan
		On seeing this film, a viewer and critic like me was reminded that Adoor Gopalakrishnan was best suited to make such a film with his intense and deep knowledge and insight into this art form ably supported by his technical expertise.
		Adoor must have wanted to present him as he was, not even changing his tone or mode of talking.
		Adoor is to be specially appreciated for not being intrusive or violating the sacred space of an evolved art form such as Kathakali.
	www.narthaki.com /info/reviews/rev280.html (875 words)

	Indiainfo: Interviews - Adoor Gopalakrishnan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Adoor's first attempt at screening Kathakali was an 18-minute documentary on the famed Guru Chengannur (Chengannur Raman Pillai Asan).
		Adoor has tread carefully in the making of the documentary, as this was a biographical.
		Adoor is working on the script of his next film.
	movies.indiainfo.com /interviews/south/malayalam/adoor.html (653 words)

	Keralaonline.com - Straight Talk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Acclaimed filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan makes waves once again with his anti-capital punishment film Nizhalkoothu, rated as one of the top ten films of the year on human rights by the Amnesty International.
		For Adoor, who was born in the early 1940s, the period in which he sets the film, childhood memories of the hangman was the basic material for the film.
		For long, Adoor had been haunted by an image he saw in a slum in Mumbai from a moving suburban train some 20 years ago.
	www.keralaonline.com /straighttalk/display.asp?cap=adoor.htm (953 words)

	DVD Talk Forum - Adoor Gopalakrishnan films available ?
		Adoor Gopalakrishnan is a director from India who appears to have a huge following in India but I haven't been able to locate any of his films on DVD (or even VHS) anywhere.
		adoor will be in Houston in may where a retro of his films is being held.
		Gopalakrishnan works in the Malayalam language, from the state of Kerala (the SW of India.) I found a decent bio on IMDB:
	www.dvdtalk.com /forum/printthread.php?t=276840 (605 words)

	mtvasudevan nair
		Adoor Gopalakrishnan had just graduated from the Film Institute in Pune, among the first batch of students from this newly established Institute and, together with a few fellow students, established the Chitralekha Film Cooperative to try and raise funds for making films and encourage their kind of cinema.
		Adoor's meticulous approach and commitment are reflected in a variety of themes, presentations and treatment.
		Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Vidheyan (The Servile,1993) was made on a budget of US$ 72,000.
	www.mtvasudevannair.com /php/showNews.php?newsid=37&linkid=5 (2473 words)

	Revisiting Ray via Adoor lens- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This year Adoor Gopalakrishnan will give the third memorial talk at SRFTI on Sunday.
		Adoor's choice of the protagonist stemmed from "the set notions society has about the executioner and the man he hangs." "We don't consider them as individuals in their specific social and cultural milieu, or understand them objectively," the director had once said.
		It was while shooting Mathilukal (The Walls) in 1989 that Adoor decided to probe the process of crime and punishment.
	www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow?msid=652005 (355 words)

	Why Phalke award deserves Adoor Gopalakrishnan- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Adoor's films mirror on Kerala's political, social and cultural history.
		The decline of feudalism and the emergence of a modern society in 20th century Kerala is the moment of Adoor's cinema.
		Adoor seeks the angst and ambivalence of individuals when they encounter the larger historical forces.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-1226217,prtpage-1.cms (707 words)

	Dadasaheb Phalke award for Adoor Gopalakrishnan - Music India OnLine
		The award would be conferred upon Adoor Gopalakrishnan in a ceremony early next year, officials said Monday.
		Kerala-born Adoor is one of the most decorated Indian filmmakers in world cinema after Satyajit Ray, and his impressive debut in 1972 with "Swayamvaram" marked a beginning of a rich repertoire.
		Adoor's third film "Elippathayam" won him the British Film Institute Award for most original and imaginative film of 1982.
	www.musicindiaonline.com /n/i/top_stories/1426 (307 words)

	Kalakeralam.com " The Rhythm of Arts "
		Adoor Gopalakrishnan again in the throes of creativity
		Adoor seeks to probe the darkest interiors of the human mind through the tale of Kaliyappan, who is suffering from a sense of guilt.
		The latest offering by Adoor will bring the viewer into fathomless and unexpected depths of self-perception.
	www.kalakeralam.com /cinema/filmnews1.htm (289 words)

	Through the looking glass - Sify.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Adoor Gopalakrishnan(born July 3, 1941) is the youngest Indian filmmaker to be honoured with the Dada Saheb Phalke award, which is usually given to people who have retired from the fray.
		Adoor, however, is active and at the height of his powers as a writer-director.
		Adoor Gopalakrishnan remains the only Indian filmmaker to be making films on his own terms.
	www.sify.com /movies/malayalam/fullstory.php?id=13955531 (230 words)

	Nata mirrors character in Adoor's film
		Yet as the country debated over capital punishment, Gopalakrishnan’s period film Nizhalkuthu spoke of the dilemma of the hangman.
		Gopalakrishnan’s preoccupation in Nizhalkuthu was more with the hangman’s tortured soul than the convicted.
		How we tend to lose concern was the basis of my film,” says Gopalakrishnan, who admits that the case brought his film back to the top of his mind.
	www.mid-day.com /news/nation/2004/august/90063.htm (390 words)

	Malayalam cinema - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Adoor Gopalakrishnan's first film Swayamvaram (1972) brought Malayalam cinema to the International film arena.
		Vasudevan Nair who was by then recognized as an important author in Malayalam, directed his first film Nirmalyam, which won the President's Gold Medal for the best film.
		These were paralleled with movies like Kireedam (1989) directed by Sibi Malayil and written by Lohitadas, Mathilukal directed by Adoor gopalakrishnan (1989), 'Amaram'(1991) directed by Bharathan and 'Sargam'(1992) directed by Hariharan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malayalam_cinema (1071 words)

	Naachgaana.com » Adoor Gopalakrishnan wins Dadasaheb Phalke Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Adoor's Mukhamukham, tracing the story of a Communist finding it difficult to adjust himself to the changing priorities of the party, had stirred a controversy in Kerala with party intellectuals vehemently reacting against the work.
		Adoor's most recent film, Nizhalkkuthu (Shadow Kill), a poignant portrayal of the inner conflict of a hangman, stands out as an outstanding example of his craftsmanship.
		Adoor has a deep understanding of Kerala's classical art and literature as well as the nuances of modern day life.
	www.naachgaana.com /NGI.php?itemid=518 (1895 words)

	Adoor Gopalakrishnan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Satyajith Ray's role in revolutionising Indian cinema during 1950s with his first film Pather Panchali was take-up by Adoor Gopalakrishnan in Kerala to create a drastic change in Malayalam cinema.
		Adoor's first film Swayamvaram (1972) pioneered the new wave cinema movement in Kerala.
		The Nation honoured Adoor for his valuable contributions to Indian cinema by awarding him the highest cinema award of India, the Dabasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2004.
	www.cinemaofmalayalam.net /adoor.html (311 words)

	Adoor Gopalakrishnan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He won the British Film Institute award for Elepathayam.
		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, 'Chalachitra'.
		He also took active part in the constitution of 'Chitralekha', Kerala's first Film Co-operative Society for film production.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adoor_Gopalakrishnan (327 words)

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