Normally, Gopalakrishnan does not work with stars. One does know much about Pinneyum except that it will have Kavya Madhavan (who was seen in Gopalakrishnan’s earlier Naalu Pennungal) and Dileep, with whom he has wanted to work for a long time. “I take my own time to write a story or pick one and then to pen the screenplay,” he said, despite men like Ray urging Adoor to make at least one movie a year.īook Review: Adoor Gopalakrishnan | A Life in Cinema Gopalakrishnan told this writer that he liked to reflect for a long time after completing a film before getting down to the next. Vidheyan (The Servile) stars Mammootty and Tanvi Azmi. But the intervals between these movies have been never as long as eight years they have usually been four or five years or less. Personal losses sometimes help bring out the best in us, and Pinneyum may well turn out be yet another masterpiece of the man who gave us gems like Swayamvaram, Elippathayam, Kodiyettam, Vidheyan, Mukhamukham, Anantaram and so on. Read: At 73, Adoor Gopalakrishnan prepares for his next film When Kapoor re-emerged and completed Teesri Manzil, it turned out to be one of his best-ever performances as Rocky, a star singer in a Mussoorie hotel who gets entangled in a murder. Kapoor was then in the midst of shooting for Vijay Ananda’s Teesri Manzil, and producer Nasir Hussain understood the star’s pain and waited. In the history of cinema, we know a Shammi Kapoor, who refused to come out of his bedroom for three months after his young wife, Geeta Bali, died of smallpox. Read: Adoor Gopalakrishnan working on a documentary on Girish Kasaravalli Nandita Das and Kavya Madhavan in a still from Naalu Pennungal (Four Women). His fans had been wondering - and even worrying - that he might not wield the megaphone any more, the loss of his wife some months ago adding to what some perceived as his professional disinterest. His last film was Oru Pennum Randaanum (A Climate for Crime) - opened in 2008, a year after his Naalu Pennungal (Four Women) came. And how apt is the title, given the auteur’s eight-year hiatus. In fact, he was one of the earliest pioneers of the Indian New Wave, which began in 1969 with movies like Mrinal Sen’s Bhuvan Shome (Mr Shome), Mani Kaul’s Uski Roti (Daily Bread) and Basu Chatterjee’s Sara Akash (The Whole Sky).Īn ardent admired of Satyajit Ray, Gopalakrishnan’s upcoming work in Malayalam will be titled Pinneyum (Once Again) with Kavya Madhavan and Dileep playing the lead pair.

Come May 11, the legendary director Adoor Gopalakrishnan will step behind the camera to freeze his 12th film in a long career which began with his 1972 Swayamvaram (One’s Own Choice).

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