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 868,221 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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Over the past year Adoor Gopalakrishnan has had the most page views in the with 101,522 views, followed by Malayalam (11,725), and Hindi (2,198). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Japanese (208.62%), Malagasy (174.89%), and Armenian (127.69%)

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

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
Vidheyan
Director
Thommy is the loyal servant of Bhaskara Pattelar, a ruthless tyrant. He struggles between obedience and morality.
Jan 27o 19947.8 / 10
Mathilukal
Director
The film focuses on the prison life of Vaikom Muhammad Basheer and the love between him and Narayani, a female inmate of the prison, who remains unseen throughout the film.
May 18o 19907.5 / 10