The 75-year-old award-winning Malayalam film maker Adoor Gopalakrishnan has completed 50 years of filmmaking, and his next film after a gap of eight years is up for nationwide release on August 19. “We have to support their films and agencies like the KSFDC (Kerala state film development corporation) have a bigger role to play in promoting them”, he pointed out. “Before turning to this, I was a bit frightened and hence I spoke to so many people about this, but after starting to work on these new platforms, I can say that these are all user-friendly”, said Gopalakrishnan to reporters here. “In one of the worldwide film festivals, a foreign filmmaker was really surprised to know that we make good non-Hindi movies in India”.
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“All the themes of my films are centred around what I have seen in my lifetime”. Many good films, he said, had failed to get the deserving reach or recognition owing to lack of a good distributor.
During the conference, Adoor Gopalakrishnan talked about his favourite Dileep film. The noted filmmaker, who took Malayalm movies to global festivals to win laurels, said the contemporary Malayalam filmdom has many good directors in the likes of Sudevan, Vipin Vijay and Sanal Kumar Sasidharan.
Dileep said acting with the master was sheer joy and a simple task.
Dileep took a camera and clicked three times after focussing on ace director Adoor Gopalakrishnan. “Dileep’s CID is a film I like very much”, he said.
Adoor said he was a person who appreciated comedy and laughed.
“One feels when we come to his set, we are school kids because that’s the way he makes his films”, said Madhavan. He began his directorial debut in 1965 with a 20-minute short fiction film A Great Day. He has scripted and directed 11 feature films and about 30 short films and documentaries.
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His last film Oru Pennum Randaanum, which released in 2008, was a 115 minute feature film.
