FILM DIRECTOR

Adoor Gopalakrishnan

1941 - Today

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Adoor Gopalakrishnan (born 3 July 1941) is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer and is regarded as one of the most notable and renowned filmmakers in India. With the release of his first feature film Swayamvaram (1972), Gopalakrishnan pioneered the new wave in Malayalam cinema during the 1970s. In a career spanning over five decades, Gopalakrishnan has made only 12 feature films to date. His films are made in the Malayalam language and often depict the society and culture of his native state Kerala. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adoor Gopalakrishnan is the 1,372nd most popular film director (down from 1,362nd in 2019), the 828th most popular biography from India (down from 770th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Indian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Adoor Gopalakrishnan ranks 1,372 out of 2,041. Before him are Usmar Ismail, Elvira Notari, Peter Hall, Rafael Gil, Clifford Odets, and Bent Hamer. After him are Owen Roizman, Marco Tullio Giordana, Benoît Lamy, Egon Günther, Felix Sobolev, and Justin Lin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Adoor Gopalakrishnan ranks 548. Before him are Helga Niessen Masthoff, Takao Sakurai, Bobby Hutcherson, Jagjit Singh, Rubén Correa, and Vyacheslav Vedenin. After him are Karlo Stipanić, Gordon Tootoosis, Meinhard Nehmer, Tony Dunne, Bertrand Halperin, and Erhard Busek.

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In India

Among people born in India, Adoor Gopalakrishnan ranks 828 out of 1,861. Before him are Roshanara Begum (1617), Bakht Khan (1797), Norman Pritchard (1877), Madan Lal Dhingra (1883), Salil Chowdhury (1925), and Sherlyn Chopra (1984). After him are Jaaved Jaaferi (1963), Padmini (1932), Ismat Chughtai (1915), Parveen Sultana (1950), Renuka Chowdhury (1954), and Veerappan (1952).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Adoor Gopalakrishnan ranks 14. Before him are Shyam Benegal (1934), Dara Singh (1928), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), S. Shankar (1963), Guru Dutt (1925), and Ismail Merchant (1936). After him are Goutam Ghose (1950), Tarsem Singh (1961), Deepa Mehta (1950), Ardeshir Irani (1886), Deepak Tijori (1961), and Tapan Sinha (1924).

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