Cinematic literature should be part of curriculum : Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Adoor Gopalakrishnan has resolutely been following a style of storytelling on the big screen that has a definite vision and sincerity of approach, never compromising with his ideals as a creative persona. For him, filmmaking is more than an art form – it is also a social statement and documentation. His sincerity to his craft is unquestionable, and his integrity towards it comes to the fore in his resolute decision not to make a film outside the immediate environs of Kerala as self-admittedly, he would fail to capture the societal nuances of places whose social history he does not know. Gopalakrishnan is in the process of completing his new film, which like his previous film “Naalu Pennungal” (Four Women), is also based on short stories of legendary Malayalam author Thakazhi Shiva Sankara Pillai. Here Gopalakrishnan responds to a range of questions on cinema as he sees it:

Q: The “Naalu Pennungal” …


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