Adoor Gopalakrishnan: A Life in Cinema

Popular journalist-writer Gautaman Bhaskaran, editor (South Asia) of South Korea’s The Seoul Times, will be releasing a biography of renowned Malayalam director Adoor Gopalakrishnan titled 'Adoor Gopalakrishnan: A Life in Cinema' in July.

The book, published by Penguin Books India, is the first authorized biography following the Dada Saheb Phalke Award winner "from his birth during the Quit India Movement to his lonely childhood at his uncles’ house; from life at Gandhigram, where Adoor studied economics and politics, to his days and nights at the Pune Film Institute; and from his first film, Swayamvaram, to his latest, Oru Pennum Rantaanum. Bhaskaran’s lucid narrative tracks the twists and turns of Gopalakrishnan’s life, finding an uncommon man and a rare auteur," a press note from the author said.

Gautaman Bhaskaran is a popular figure in print media with an experience of 35 years in India’s best daily newspapers The Statesman and The Hindu. He is also known for his write-ups for a variety of other publications across the globe: Hindustan Times and The Week in India, Gulf Times and Gulf News in the Gulf, The Japan Times in Japan and Sight and Sound and Screen International in Britain.

He covers major international film festivals, including Cannes, and teaches cinema at Manipal University and English in Chennai’s Loyola College. He lives in Chennai with his wife and son.