Adoor Gopalakrishnan

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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. With the mastery of craft, his art films convey the crisis of the middle class and the struggle between man and society.

In the portrayal of the unadulterated manifestation of malayali life , the Indian cinema witnessed the rise of a director in the south-west corner of the Indian sub-continent. His films though culture-specific, with it human concern makes them universal.

Adoor's calibre does not end as a parallel stream film-maker . His book 'Cinimayude Lokam' (The World of Cinema) fetched him the National Award for the best book on Cinema in 1983. His published works includes two plays and a book on plays and playwrights.

It was this Padmashri winner (1984) who took initiative to form Chitralekha Film Society in Trivandrum, pioneering the Film Society movement in Kerala.

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		*Profile* 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. With the mastery of craft, his art films convey the crisis of the middle class and the struggle between man and society. In the portrayal of the unadulterated manifestation of malayali life , the Indian cinema witnessed the rise of a director in the south-west corner of the Indian sub-continent. His films though culture-specific, with it human concern makes them universal. Adoor's calibre does not end as a parallel stream film-maker . His book 'Cinimayude Lokam' (The World of Cinema) fetched him the National Award for the best book on Cinema in 1983. His published works includes two plays and a book on plays and playwrights. It was this Padmashri winner (1984) who took initiative to form Chitralekha Film Society in Trivandrum, pioneering the Film Society movement in Kerala. Copyright © 2000 Guildsoft India Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.