Adoor Gopalakrishnan (PB)

One of the most critically acclaimed directors after Satyajit Ray Adoor Gopalakrishnan occupies a unique space in the world of cinema. His life intertwining with his art and his art drawing upon real people and real lives Gopalakrishnan’s cinema turns the mundane into the magical the commonplace into the startling.In Adoor Gopalakrishnan A Life in Cinema the first authorized biography of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner Gautaman Bhaskaran traces the ebbs and flows of the life of this enigmatic director. From his birth during the Quit India movement to his lonely childhood from his belief in Gandhian values and life at Gandhigram to his days and nights at the Pune Film Institute and from his first film Swayamvaram to his latest and long-awaited Pinneyum Bhaskaran’s lucid narrative tracks the twists and turns of Gopalakrishnan’s life revealing an uncommon man and a rare auteur. Review Ought to be widely read. --Hindustan TimesAn incisive biography...[Gautaman has] gone under the skin of the great film-maker s cinema. --TribuneOffers insight into the fashioning of Gopalakrishnan s credo. --Outlook About the Author Gautaman Bhaskaran is a journalist and writer having worked in two of India’s best-regarded daily newspapers the Statesman and The Hindu for thirty-five years. Now editor South Asia for The Seoul Times he also writes for a variety of other publications across the globe. Bhaskaran teaches cinema at Manipal University and English at Chennai’s Loyola College.