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The 54 year old veteran and one of the finest method actors cinema has ever seen is only 2 shy of 50 years in cinema and His dil still maangs for more !!!

“what would you have been doing if you weren’t an actor?”
“I would still be trying”

The 10th grade drop out who is now addressed as “Padma shri Dr kamal hasan!!!” modestly says by rolling his eyes that acting is the only thing he knows and ya we can trust him there!!!

It all started with A Bhimsingh’s “Kallathoor Kannama” (1960).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odHgGJx_4to

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“Ammavum neeyae Appavum Neeyae”

and nothing has stopped him, its strange that just like many greats he too wanted to do something else (Film maker) and says that Acting was by default ( Sachin wanted to be a fast bowler !!!).

Having been brought …

I just returned to Mumbai after my “INDIA darshan ” as I was filming 6 documentaries for AID INDIA (Association for india’s development -an NGO) along with our very own K K (Kavita Krishna). I must thank her for offering me this opportunity and choosing me over many other volunteers (including her sis) … she was being professional she says !!!

Anyway now I am just gonna throw light on one small part of our trip in this article, but let me first give you an over view of what we were assigned to do-

Kavita proposed the idea of documenting on film the works and the projects of AID-INDIA to Kiran a volunteer of AID-USA (Kavita has been an AID volunteer since 2001) and she was given the green signal!!!

So we were given projects to cover in various parts of India (Chennai, Krishnagiri, Thiruvanamalai, Anakapalle, Srikakulam, Tholapi, …

Narration: A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program.

I see movies like “thirupachi” “thimiru” “madurai” etc and wonder … did the director even have a story to tell … if not what did he tell the producer?
Lets club such movies in a separate genre “koothu”! “THE KOOTHU MOVIES”

But I love this language and still follow all the movies that get released … may it be the amazing “paruthiveeran” or the honest “mozhi” or even the filthy “palani” … I always keep track of the Friday births, to gauge the quality of cinema in my foster land. And in one such attempt I hit upon Vetrimaran’s “Polladhavan” last Diwali.

The promos of that movie appeared cheap. It even gave me a feeling that the movie is more like the …

29th Jan 1:30 pm… I was out with my friends and Amma called me up to inform me about the demise of Bharath Gopi. The news gave me a shock and its strange that I feel this deep sadness nowadays when I hear such news …may be the closer i get to movies the more it hurts… I almost feel as if I have lost someone dear to me!!! I enquired immediately if it was his Paralysis that could have resurfaced and caused it !! No it was an attack she said.
I have lived most part of my life outside my home state of kerala, and never had a chance to actually see many of Gopi sir’s movies. I wish I could write and discuss extensively about him and give him the rightly deserved ode in PFC. But I know his work only superficially
So what I present here is …