Adoor Gopalakrishnan

'Mohanlal became a superstar because he never acted in your films': Baiju Santhosh slams Adoor Gopalakrishnan for 'disrespectful' comment about actor

October 08, 2025 7:00 pm

Renowned actor Baiju Santhosh recently tore into filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan for a purportedly disrespectful comment he once made about Mohanlal.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan, caste and cinema: A reckoning in Kerala

August 05, 2025 5:35 pm

His comments on state support for SC, ST and women filmmakers reflect a deeper problem. Malayalam cinema, like many 'cultural' fields, remains an upper-caste bastion where dominant narratives are perpetuated, certain ways of seeing and knowing are universalised, and all other perspectives and histories are buried

Adoor Gopalakrishnan in hot water over comments 'criticising' Kerala govt's project funding SC/ST, women filmmakers: 'Don't give funds just because they are women'

August 04, 2025 4:50 pm

Legendary filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan has landed in soup after allegedly criticising the state government's project funding prospective filmmakers from marginalised sections.

Vidheyan: The Adoor Gopalakrishnan movie continues to be a masterclass on filmmaking even after 29 years

July 04, 2023 5:21 pm

The opening scene of Vidheyan, based on Paul Zacharia's novella Bhaskarapattelarum Ente Jeevithavum, itself demonstrates director Adoor Gopalakrishnan's mastery of visual storytelling.

Week after director's resignation, Kerala visual science institute Chairman Adoor Gopalakrishnan quits post

January 31, 2023 6:56 pm

While several film professionals had backed the students' agitation, Adoor Gopalakrishnan had supported the beleaguered director saying the allegations against Shankar Mohan were 'baseless'.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan: The paths he chose

December 18, 2022 7:24 am

Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s debut feature, Swayamvaram, turns 50. This is the story of his journey through change.

Retrospective of Adoor films in Delhi begins today

December 05, 2022 9:27 am

Beginning Monday, six of the director’s feature films in Malayalam, his 2001-documentary on the classical art form, Koodiyattam, and a documentary by Girish Kasaravalli on Adoor will be screened at the India International Centre over the next three weeks.

Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali declared the best Indian film of all time by FIPRESCI; see top 10 list here

October 21, 2022 12:05 pm

The India chapter of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) has chosen the top 10 Indian films of all time. See the list here.

Protect the film archive. This can’t be done by handing it to a corporation

April 05, 2022 9:02 am

Adoor Gopalakrishnan writes: As a museum and a storehouse, the upkeep of a film archive is an enormously expensive affair. This is something no profit-making body would want to take on

Adoor Gopalakrishnan: Don’t know why mainstream films are included in festivals

November 20, 2019 8:34 am

As the International Film Festival of India opens in Goa today, veteran director Adoor Gopalakrishnan speaks on whether film festivals are steering away from their objectives, and how democracy rests on a plurality of opinions.

Idea Exchange With Veteran Filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan

February 15, 2016 12:28 pm