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  2. 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. [2]

  3. Parents & Siblings. Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s father was Madhavan Unnithan, and his mother was Mouttathu Gauri Kunjamma. He was the second but last of their five children. His siblings are Savithri Kunjamma (deceased), Sarojini Kunjamma, Prof. Ramachandran Unnithan and Ayyappan Unnithan (deceased).

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  4. Writer – Director Adoor Gopalakrishnan was born in Kerala, India in 1941 into a family that patronized Kathakali and other classical performing arts. He started acting on the amateur stage at the early age of eight.

  5. Adoor Gopalakrishnan (born July 3, 1941, Pallickal [now in Kerala], British India [now India]) is an Indian filmmaker who was one of the leading figures in the New Indian cinema movement of realistic and issue-based filmmaking that arose in the 1970s.

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  6. Nov 11, 2023 · Gopalakrishnan was born on 3 July 1941 in the village of Mannadi ( Medayil Bungalow ) near Adoor, present day Kerala, India as the son of Madhavan Unnithan and Mouttathu Gauri Kunjamma. He started his artistic life as an actor in amateur plays when he was 8. Later he shifted his base to writing and direction and wrote and directed a few plays.

  7. Dec 18, 2022 · The conference was the brainchild of M Govindan, a public intellectual, who edited the influential little magazine, Sameeksha, and was mentor to some of the leading figures of modernism in Malayalam literature. Govindan asked Adoor if he could organise a film festival during the conference.