Veteran actor Sharada has been selected for the prestigious Prem Nazir award.
A three-time National Award winner, she won the Best Actress award for her performance in 1968 for Thulabharam (Malayalam), in 1972 for Swayamvaram (Malayalam) and five years later for Nimajjanam (Telugu). Apart from the National Awards, she has been bestowed with several prestigious awards such as the Kerala State Film Awards, Filmfare Awards South, and Nandi Award.
A three-time National Award winner, she won the Best Actress award for her performance in 1968 for Thulabharam (Malayalam), in 1972 for Swayamvaram (Malayalam) and five years later for Nimajjanam (Telugu). Apart from the National Awards, she has been bestowed with several prestigious awards such as the Kerala State Film Awards, Filmfare Awards South, and Nandi Award.
- 8/5/2017
- by TNM NEWS
- The News Minute
Legendary Indian film and documentary maker Adoor Gopalakrishnan attended an exclusive master-class at the British Film Institute (BFI) as part of this year’s London Indian Film Festival. Hosted by Derek Malcolm, the event reflected on the life and works of the great Malayalam director and screenwriter, who is a multiple National Award winner, a Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, as well as a recipient of the Padma Vibushan; India’s second highest civilian honour. Adoor is known for travelling to London on a rare basis, which made this event even more special for his fans and Indian film lovers alike.
Born in the South Indian city of Kerala in 1941, Adoor initially did not want to enter the Indian film industry and was working as a statistical investigator for the Government of India. He eventually embraced his passion for cinema and went onto study Screenplay Writing and Advanced Film Direction at the...
Born in the South Indian city of Kerala in 1941, Adoor initially did not want to enter the Indian film industry and was working as a statistical investigator for the Government of India. He eventually embraced his passion for cinema and went onto study Screenplay Writing and Advanced Film Direction at the...
- 7/21/2013
- by Bodrul Chaudhury
- Bollyspice
On the 19th of July 2013, Adoor Gopalakrishnan will be speaking about his work at the London Indian Film Festival. Gopalakrishnan is a pioneer in the world of South Asian film. His first film in 1972, Swayamvaram, had revolutionised Malayalam Cinema. It was through this film that the new wave cinema movement had begun in Kerala. Having won sixteen international awards, Gopalakrishnan has also been awarded the most prestigious award available in cinema by the Government of India, the Dadasaheb Phalke award in 2004.
Gopalakrishnan had given his first on stage performance at the young age of eight. He went on to study at the Gandhigram Rural Institute where he achieved a degree in Economics, Political Science and Public Administration. After working as a Government Officer, he decided to leave his job and study at the Pune Film Institute. He studied Film and Screenwriting. After that, he made history. He established the first...
Gopalakrishnan had given his first on stage performance at the young age of eight. He went on to study at the Gandhigram Rural Institute where he achieved a degree in Economics, Political Science and Public Administration. After working as a Government Officer, he decided to leave his job and study at the Pune Film Institute. He studied Film and Screenwriting. After that, he made history. He established the first...
- 7/14/2013
- by Aashi Gahlot
- Bollyspice
The 17th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (Iffk) has announced its lineup. The festival will run from 7th to 14th December, 2012 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.
Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.
Complete list of films:
Competition Films
Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.
Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)
Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)
A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)
Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)
Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)
The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)
Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)
Present Tense...
Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.
Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.
Complete list of films:
Competition Films
Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.
Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)
Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)
A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)
Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)
Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)
The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)
Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)
Present Tense...
- 11/2/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Day 3 at the Mumbai Film Festival was a day dedicated to big names and equally big queues to witness them. Celebrated Indian filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan was at the festival to present his 1973 debut Swayamvaram in the Indian Retrospective section. The humble director introduced his film and stepped out letting the audience watch admitting that he had watched the film far too many times to stay for the screening. The veteran director sure did win hearts as he sounded contented with an audience of 30-40 people calling it a ‘big crowd’ for his film. The screening was interrupted by a glitch and resumed after a good twenty minutes.
Glitches aside, the day was claimed by films like The Artist, Michael, She Monkeys and The Whistleblower.
The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius
One of the most awaited films of the festival, The Artist is nothing short of a masterpiece. The film playing to...
Glitches aside, the day was claimed by films like The Artist, Michael, She Monkeys and The Whistleblower.
The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius
One of the most awaited films of the festival, The Artist is nothing short of a masterpiece. The film playing to...
- 10/16/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Adoor Gopalakrishnan is an exceptional film-maker. Not only does his oeuvre hold the colours of the rainbow, but more importantly when the social world tries to teach us to run and ruin – ourselves and the life round us, he is a graceful exception to this ‘accepted’ norm. Hence, a book on Adoor – his films and the creative mind behind this palette was due for many years. Starting a career in 1972 (feature film consideration) in the last 40 years Adoor made 11 feature films. There are probably few books and many essays on him in Malayali language – the official language of Kerala, where Adoor lives and centres his cinema. There is however an extreme dearth of material on Adoor in English – which also goes on to show the state of regional cinema and its acceptance and expanse. Gautam Bhaskaran’s Adoor Gopalakrishnan: A Life in Cinema which came out this year and...
- 4/20/2011
- by Amitava Nag
- DearCinema.com
Four Women
Toronto International Film Fetival
CHENNAI, India -- Indian auteur Adoor Gopalakrishnan swims and survives in a sea of big-budget movies, aggressively promoted by Bollywood bucks and bigwigs. His latest feature, 10th in 35 years, proves his unwavering commitment to meaningful cinema that began with his first, Swayamvaram ("One's Own Choice") in 1972. A keen eye for detail, a remarkable feel for authenticity and an undying love for each of his characters have helped Adoor -- as he is popularly known -- to create celluloid excellence, which is at once refreshing, even rejuvenating, for it is so different from the usual song-and-dance Indian cinema.
In Adoor's films, real people exist, facing and fighting real predicaments in often complex situations, and these have endeared him to very ordinary cinema audiences, as they have to critical festival buffs. Therefore, Four Women (Naalu Pennungal) in Malayalam, premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, is sure to find a market not just overseas but also at home, particularly in southern India.
Four Women is divided into four chapters, each dealing with a different problem women face. Beyond the obvious thematic link, women, each chapters, based on renowned Kerala writer Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai's short stories, touches on the injustice heaped on this sex by society.
The first episode examines a prostitute's distress when she and the man she chooses to live with are accused of illicit relationship and jailed. The woman who wants to begin a new life is ridiculed by the sentencing judge, and an obstacle is placed on her path to reformation and love.
In the second section, aspersions are cast on a farming woman when her impotent (or is it gay?) husband sends her back to her parents' home. In a disturbing night scene, we see the woman suffer terrible hurt and humiliation when he rejects her with callous words, It is too hot. This story is aptly subtitled Virgin.
The third part captures the angst of a housewife whose children fail to live beyond a few days after birth. The narrative, touching upon sorrow and desire but subtly laced with humor, places the woman in a quandary as she fights the temptation to sleep with an old schoolmate if only to beget a child.
We see the same lure in a spinster in the final segment, where she invites a man home, but hesitates and finally refuses to let him in. With her brother and two younger sisters married, she is left with little choice: either be a piece of furniture in a sibling's home, scoffed at and used as a domestic, or sink into solitude.
These stories take place in 1940s Kerala, but are relevant even today, for Indian women, especially in the villages, still have to grapple with social prejudices and impediments. What gives the film an even greater impulsion are the strong performances that Adoor has been able to draw from his actors, turning them into eminently believable characters. In perhaps her best attempt ever, Nandita Das as Kamakashi infuses the anguish of a woman left by the wayside. Her face conveys pain and helplessness.
Padma Priya transits with consummate ease from a brash streetwalker to one seeking stability, even if it is within a live-in relationship. If Geetu Mohandas brings dignity to Kumari stoically bearing the mortification of rejection, Manju Pillai gives nuances to the frustration of being childless.
FOUR WOMEN
Adoor Gopalakrishnan Prods.
Credits:
Director/Producer/Production designer: Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Writer: Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Based on stories by: Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Director of photography: M.J Radhakrishnan
Art director: Marthandam
Music: Isaac Thomas
Co-producer: Benzy Martin
Costume designer: S.B. Satheesh
Editor: Ajith Kumar
Cast:
Kunju Pennu: Padma Priya
Papu Kutti: Sreejith
Kumari: Geetu Mohandas
Narayanan: Nandu
Chinnu: Manju Pillai
Raman Pillai: Murali
Nara Pillai: Mukesh
Kamakshi: Nandita Das
Shubdra: Kavya Madhavan
Sarojam: Ramya Nambisan
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
CHENNAI, India -- Indian auteur Adoor Gopalakrishnan swims and survives in a sea of big-budget movies, aggressively promoted by Bollywood bucks and bigwigs. His latest feature, 10th in 35 years, proves his unwavering commitment to meaningful cinema that began with his first, Swayamvaram ("One's Own Choice") in 1972. A keen eye for detail, a remarkable feel for authenticity and an undying love for each of his characters have helped Adoor -- as he is popularly known -- to create celluloid excellence, which is at once refreshing, even rejuvenating, for it is so different from the usual song-and-dance Indian cinema.
In Adoor's films, real people exist, facing and fighting real predicaments in often complex situations, and these have endeared him to very ordinary cinema audiences, as they have to critical festival buffs. Therefore, Four Women (Naalu Pennungal) in Malayalam, premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, is sure to find a market not just overseas but also at home, particularly in southern India.
Four Women is divided into four chapters, each dealing with a different problem women face. Beyond the obvious thematic link, women, each chapters, based on renowned Kerala writer Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai's short stories, touches on the injustice heaped on this sex by society.
The first episode examines a prostitute's distress when she and the man she chooses to live with are accused of illicit relationship and jailed. The woman who wants to begin a new life is ridiculed by the sentencing judge, and an obstacle is placed on her path to reformation and love.
In the second section, aspersions are cast on a farming woman when her impotent (or is it gay?) husband sends her back to her parents' home. In a disturbing night scene, we see the woman suffer terrible hurt and humiliation when he rejects her with callous words, It is too hot. This story is aptly subtitled Virgin.
The third part captures the angst of a housewife whose children fail to live beyond a few days after birth. The narrative, touching upon sorrow and desire but subtly laced with humor, places the woman in a quandary as she fights the temptation to sleep with an old schoolmate if only to beget a child.
We see the same lure in a spinster in the final segment, where she invites a man home, but hesitates and finally refuses to let him in. With her brother and two younger sisters married, she is left with little choice: either be a piece of furniture in a sibling's home, scoffed at and used as a domestic, or sink into solitude.
These stories take place in 1940s Kerala, but are relevant even today, for Indian women, especially in the villages, still have to grapple with social prejudices and impediments. What gives the film an even greater impulsion are the strong performances that Adoor has been able to draw from his actors, turning them into eminently believable characters. In perhaps her best attempt ever, Nandita Das as Kamakashi infuses the anguish of a woman left by the wayside. Her face conveys pain and helplessness.
Padma Priya transits with consummate ease from a brash streetwalker to one seeking stability, even if it is within a live-in relationship. If Geetu Mohandas brings dignity to Kumari stoically bearing the mortification of rejection, Manju Pillai gives nuances to the frustration of being childless.
FOUR WOMEN
Adoor Gopalakrishnan Prods.
Credits:
Director/Producer/Production designer: Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Writer: Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Based on stories by: Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Director of photography: M.J Radhakrishnan
Art director: Marthandam
Music: Isaac Thomas
Co-producer: Benzy Martin
Costume designer: S.B. Satheesh
Editor: Ajith Kumar
Cast:
Kunju Pennu: Padma Priya
Papu Kutti: Sreejith
Kumari: Geetu Mohandas
Narayanan: Nandu
Chinnu: Manju Pillai
Raman Pillai: Murali
Nara Pillai: Mukesh
Kamakshi: Nandita Das
Shubdra: Kavya Madhavan
Sarojam: Ramya Nambisan
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 9/19/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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