Telling engaging, crowd-pleasing stories comes easy to competent filmmakers. Exceptional directors possess the skill to go beyond simple linear narratives and craft insightful chronicles of their times. But it is left to the truly gifted and perceptive to transcend historical time-frames and capture the continuum of an entire socio-cultural and political ethos. Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 75, one of India’s most accomplished living filmmakers, belongs to the third category of cinematic auteurs.
His latest film, Pinneyum (Once Again), released in late 2016, the 50th year of his directorial career, is proof that the maestro has. . .
