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Govindan Aravindan (23 January 1935 – 15 March 1991) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, musician, cartoonist, and painter. [1] . He was one of the pioneers of parallel cinema in Malayalam. [2] .
Govindan Aravindan was one of India’s greatest filmmakers and a leading light during the golden age of Malayalam cinema in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a man of many talents — painter, cartoonist, musician, theatre director and filmmaker. The autodidact's films were marked by an entirely original approach to cinema.
Mar 15, 2024 · The scene described above is the crux of the movie Chidambaram (1985), directed by Govindan Aravindan, popularly known as G. Aravindan. A pioneer of Malayalam art-house cinema, his death on 15 March 1991—when he was only 56 years old—came as a shock to the Kerala film industry.
Govindan Aravindan, popularly known as G. Aravindan, left behind a legacy of 11 feature films and several documentaries. Besides these, he produced one of the longest-running commentaries on contemporary society in Kerala through his weekly cartoon page, which ran from 1961 to the early 1970s.
Feb 11, 2016 · G. Aravindan explored new experiential terrains, unfolded new connections and erased boundaries between genres, forms and styles.
Vaasthuhara ( transl. The dispossessed) is a 1991 Indian Malayalam -language social drama film written and directed by G. Aravindan. It is based on the short story of the same name by C. V. Sreeraman. The film looks into the lives of partition refugees from East Bengal to West Bengal. At a larger level, it's the universal story of refugees.
Aravindan (January 21, 1935–March 15, 1991) was an iconoclast filmmaker who was deeply rooted in Indian culture, the Malayalam sub milieu of Indian arts and aesthetics of film, painting, music and theatre.
Govindan Aravindan was born on 21 January 1935 in Kottayam, Kerala, India. He was a director and writer, known for Esthappan (1980), Vasthuhara (1991) and Oridathu (1987). He died on 16 March 1991 in Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
Feb 28, 2016 · The unhurried genius of G Aravindan. Ahead of an event to mark the Malayalam master’s 25th death anniversary and 80th birth year in March, memories of the ‘Chidambaram’ shoot with actress ...
Oct 12, 2013 · Kerala-born film and theatre director, screenwriter and music composer who made over 15 feature-length fictional and documentary works during the seventies and the eighties. Aravindan...
