Adoor Gopalakrishnan in Abu Dhabi

By John Cheeran
The National, the Abu Dhabi-based English newspaper, today has devoted two full pages in its Arts and Life section to a profile of Adoor Gopalakrishnan, one of India’s finest film makers.
Despite the lavish display, there is hardly anything that is insightful in the profile by Gautaman Bhaskaran.
The journalist writes: “Gopalakrishnan’s cinema is about real people and real ¬issues.”
Aren’t all people real, all issues real?
Read the profile online.