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Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Moutatthu "Adoor" Gopalakrishnan Unnithan (July 3, 1941) is a seven-time National Award winning Indian film director, script writer, and producer. Most of his films are rarely released worldwide in DVD or VHS. They go to a few film festivals around the world, and are released in Kerala. They may be found in certain film societies in Kerala.

Biography
Gopalakrishnan was born on 3 July 1941 in the village of Pallickal (Medayil Bungalow) near Adoor, present day Kerala, India as the son of Madhavan Unnithan and Mouttathu Gauri Kunjamma. He started his artis...

Adoor Gopalakrishnan is Jury Chairman of Goa IFFI

42nd Goa International Film Festival began yesterday on November 23rd with Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan lighting the lamp at 5 pm to inaugurate the festival at Inox theatre complex situated at banks of Mandovi river banks in Panaji. Adoor Gopalakrishnan is ...

Adoor Gopala Krishnan Jury Chairman Iffi

Pupy 2 National Science Film Award 120111 Aid

Keralan animation film Pupy 2 bags National Award!

Pupy 2, the Keralan animation film for children, has won the prestigious Golden Beaver Award. The film was a favorite amongst all present at the National Science Film Festival. The event was organized by the Indian Science Congress in Chennai, few ...

Mammootty’s Mathilukalkkappuram to launch on March 1

Superstar Mammootty is going to start his first project under his production house Playhouse, which will be producing Mathilukalkkappuram, a sequel to the 1990 movie Mathilukal. Mammootty starred in the earlier movie and he will also be seen in the sequel.Speaking ...

Adoor warns film distributors, exhibitors

“The attitude of Malayalam film distributors and exhibitors to accept only other language films, which have commercial value at the box office, should change. Only then the Malayalam cinema will progress,” said noted director Adoor Gopalakrishnan. He wa...

Narain to be a mass hero

Actor Narain, who debuted with Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s film, was appreciated for his performance in Anjathey, a Tamil film.After Anjathey, Naren realized that as such films won’t come his way all the time, he had to change his ways. He is presently ...

Annual Malayalam Movie Awards declared

The Annual Malayalam Movie Awards (AMMA) has been declared this Sunday. The award has brought along with it a spate of surprises and also reinforced some expectations. The epic movie Pazhassi Raja has been unanimously selected as the best movie of ...

The 55th National Film Awards winners felicitated

It was an event to remember. President Pratibha Patil gave away the National Film Awards to the winners at the 55th National Film Awards ceremony at Vigyan Bhavan on Wednesday.Aditya Chopra's Chak De! India was named the best film for the ...

Geethu Mohandas turns director with Kelkkunundo?

Actress Geethu Mohandas has always sought to tread the path less travelled. She has always talked vociferously of her dream to become a film director. And now it seems that she has fulfilled her dream through her short film Kelkkunundo? The ...

Gandhi My Father & TZP shine at National Awards

The results of the 55th National Awards for the year 2007 were announced yesterday and like always there were quite a few surprises in store. It was the cinema of South India that bagged all the top four honours with the ...

Priyadarshan finally gets an award in his 25 years career

Priyadarshan who’s shooting in a distant Karaikudi cannot believe his Tamil film Kanchivaram has won the National award for best film. “This isn’t just my first National award it’s my first award ever Can you believe, in my career of...

National Film Awards: Prakesh Raj – Best actor

Tamil actor Prakash Raj has won the best actor award at the National Film awards for his performance in the Tamil film Kanchivaram. Prakash Raj had earlier won the best supporting actor award for his film Iruvar (Directed by Mani Ratnam) in ...

55th National Award Winners List

The 55th National Film Awards (for year 2007) were announced in New Delhi on Monday. The award was dominated Priyadarshan directed Kanchivaram which bagged the Best Film Award and earned Prakash Raj the Best Actor Award. Umashree won the Best Actress ...

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