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THE BOOK
A DOOR TO ADOOR
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SACF Honours Adoor Gopalakrishnan
with ‘Excellence in Cinema’ Award
First Retrospective of Adoor’s Films in U.K.
 Adoor Gopalakrishnan,
India’s foremost filmmaker after Satyajit Ray,
is being
presented a
Crystal
Pyramid, an Award for Excellence in Cinema, by
South
Asian
Cinema Foundation (SACF), a London based
organisation that explores the many splendoured
cinema of South Asia beyond
Bollywood.
The Award will be presented to the veteran filmmaker Adoor, by the
Honourable
High Commissioner of India in London, Mr. Kamalesh Sharma, at the Nehru
Centre in the presence of distinguished guests. It will be followed, by an
in conversation event between Adoor Gopalakrishnan and film historian and
Director SACF Lalit Mohan Joshi. Adoor will also release a book
A Door
to Adoor edited by Lalit Mohan Joshi and C.S. Venkiteswaran with a
foreword by Shyam Benegal. This book is the first publication in English
on Adoor Gopalakrishnan and contains rare collection of essays by renowned
critics, film academics and filmmakers.
SACF is
also organising a Festival of Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s films at
Watermans,
Brentford, which will be the first ever Retrospective of Adoor
Gopalakrishnan’s films in U.K.
Ideologically inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and motivated into filmmaking by
Satyajit Ray, Adoor Gopalakrishnan is one of the early direction graduates
of the well-known Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. His
early films like Swayamvaram (One’s Own Choice, 1974) and
Kodiyettam (Ascent, 1977) were a breakthrough in bringing about a new
wave of films in India (Kerala, South India) in the 1970s.
“Adoor’s
films are meditations on the human condition. He has an extraordinary
ability to delve into the complexities of human existence; compulsions
forced by history and tradition, and by dynamics of social and political
change. His narratives appear simple enough but as the stories unfold,
nothing is simple anymore”, says the veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal.
 Making films
for the last 35 years, Adoor’s seminal films like Elippathayam (Rat
Trap, 1981), Mukhamukham (Face to Face, 1984), Kathapurushan
(Man of the Story, 1995) and Nizhalkkuthu (Shadow Kill, 2002) have
earned him the highest Cinema
Honour
by the Government of India, Dada Saheb Phalke Award (2004) and the second
highest civilian honour Padma Vibhushan this year. “The uniqueness of his
vision and the consistency of his approach to filmmaking have elevated him
to the position of the
most outstanding Indian filmmaker after Satyajit Ray”, says Lalit Mohan
Joshi, the director of SACF.
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