Adoor calls for making film study compulsory

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"FILMMAKER Adoor Gopalkrishnan today called for making study of classics
compulsory during graduation so that people developed an understanding of
cinema. A course where students see and study at least 10 classics is the
need of the hour, said Gopalkrishnan who was in the city for the convocation
ceremony of International School of Business and Media (ISBM). The Malayalam
director who has a number of masterpieces like Swayamvaram, Kodiyettam,
Mukha Mukhamto his credit says, Every film I make is for the masses. But
it's like a book where appreciation of the art differs from person to person.

Gopalkrishnan, who feels it's time for language films to come to the fore,
has made his latest film Nizhalkuttu (Shadow Kill) with French
collaboration. International co-productions is a new trend. Here, they are
commercially released abroad. These methods can help offbeat cinema survive.
You get a larger audience and can also recover finances if you haven't
already in the country.

However, he is one director who takes long gaps between films. I need time
to wean away from its influence and detach myself. Once I complete a movie,
I feel very empty. I attend film festivals or I'm fielding questions from
people about my film, he smiles, adding, Ideas keep coming but my rate of
rejection is very high and I'm particular that I don't repeat myself. "

Source:
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