FILM DIRECTOR

Adoor Gopalakrishnan

1941 - Today

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Adoor Gopalakrishnan (born 3 July 1941) is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer and is regarded as one of the most notable and renowned filmmakers in India. With the release of his first feature film Swayamvaram (1972), Gopalakrishnan pioneered the new wave in Malayalam cinema during the 1970s. In a career spanning over five decades, Gopalakrishnan has made only 12 feature films to date. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adoor Gopalakrishnan has received more than 933,337 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Adoor Gopalakrishnan is the 1,362nd most popular film director (down from 1,232nd in 2019), the 769th most popular biography from India (down from 636th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Indian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Adoor Gopalakrishnan ranks 1,362 out of 2,041. Before him are Malik Bendjelloul, Leon Shamroy, Peter Segal, Marco Tullio Giordana, Allen Daviau, and Peter Zadek. After him are Robert Surtees, Attila Dargay, Gabriele Muccino, Usmar Ismail, Taylor Sheridan, and Mike Hodges.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Adoor Gopalakrishnan ranks 532. Before him are John Nicholson, Jürgen Nöldner, Kaarlo Kangasniemi, Long John Baldry, Jean-Jacques Schuhl, and Péter Balázs. After him are Michael Howard, Kim Eui-tae, Oja Kodar, Monika Maron, Tony Dunne, and Horst Meyer.

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In India

Among people born in India, Adoor Gopalakrishnan ranks 769 out of 1,861. Before him are Nanda (1939), Mehmood (1932), Sonal Mansingh (1944), Amit Shah (1964), Gurdial Singh (1933), and Shakti Kapoor (1952). After him are Mammootty (1951), Godfrey Brown (1915), Ajay Banga (1959), Maneka Gandhi (1956), Saira Banu (1944), and K. Chandrashekar Rao (1954).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Adoor Gopalakrishnan ranks 12. Before him are Lindsay Anderson (1923), Dara Singh (1928), Guru Dutt (1925), Ardeshir Irani (1886), Shyam Benegal (1934), and Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914). After him are Tarsem Singh (1961), Ismail Merchant (1936), V. Shantaram (1901), Subhash Ghai (1945), Deepa Mehta (1950), and Aparna Sen (1945).

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Filmography

Mathilukal
Director
Mathilukal ('Walls') is a free adaptation of the novelette of the same name, written by the celebrated Malayalam writer, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. Autobiographical in character, it is set against the background of India’s freedom struggle in the ’40s when he was serving a term of imprisonment in the Trivandrum Central Jail. When the film opens, we see Basheer in a police lock-up, quite at home in the company of a few petty criminals. He has been languishing there for more than a year now without a trial.
May 18o 19907.5 / 10
Elippathayam
Director
Unni is the last male heir of a decaying feudal family in rural Kerala. His inability to accept the socio-economic changes of a new society causes him to gradually withdraw into isolation and paranoia.
Apr 30o 19827.2 / 10
Anantaram
Director
A young man narrates two conflicting accounts of his life, changing the details and incidents in both, as he slowly approaches madness.
Oct 1o 19878.3 / 10