Adoor Gopalakrishnan pioneered Malayalam New Wave cinema, directing 12 feature films portraying Kerala's society, culture, and human experiences across decades.
The legendary director pays little heed to the brouhaha over the Rs 100-crore or Rs 500-crore box office collections of the present crop of movies.
There is no well-known film festival across the world that has not screened his films. Several documentary films were made on him, the most outstanding