Adoor Ajar
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. He said, “The public is easily swayed by the publicity blitz. They feel, if a film has made Rs 200 crore, it must be good. My first film ‘Swayamvaram’ (1972) cost only a few lakhs, won four national awards and did pretty well at the theatres.”
Adoor Gopalakrishnan: An Outstanding Filmmaker
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 one was by filmmaker Girish Kasaravalli which won the National Award.