‘Pinneyum’ – Subodh Bhave’s debut Malayalam film directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Popular Marathi actor Subodh Bhave , after making his debut in Bollywood through Sachin Kundalkar’s film ‘Aiyya’ is now all set to make his debut in Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Malayalam film ‘Pinneyum’. Subodh is playing an important role in this film, which has Dileep and Kavya Madhavan in the lead roles. For Subodh, this has been a big honor, as the 74 year old National award winning filmmaker is returning to direction, after a gap of eight years.
‘Pinneyum’, which is an intense love story, has also brought together Dileep & Kavya, after 5 years. It is for this reason, there are big expectations from this film, which is releasing on coming Friday. For Subodh, this is a big achievement and the actor has himself expressed his happiness, for getting an opportunity to work with a reputed director like Adoor Gopalakrishnan.
It may be recalled that The International Film Critics Award (FIPRESCI) has gone to Mr. Adoor Gopalakrishnan six times successively, for his films ‘Mukhamukham’, ‘Anantaram’, ‘Mathilukal’, ‘Vidheyan’, ‘Kathapurushan’ and ‘Nizhalkkuthu’. Besides National award, he has won several international awards like the UNICEF film prize (Venice), OCIC film prize (Amiens), INTERFILM Prize (Mannheim) and his films have been shown at every important festival around the world. In the year 1984 he was conferred with Padmashri by Government of India.