Adoor Gopalakrishnan on why his movies are not ‘art’ films, the difference between national and international film awards and why he can’t make a film in any other language than Malayalam. Paromita Chakrabarti in The Indian Express:
So how do you perceive Bollywood?
I don’t really know. The idea of an entertainment that entails leaving your common sense back at home does not appeal to me. You clap at what you see and feel happy with the mindless action in front of you because that’s what you have come to expect. It sells, I guess. So people are happy about it. As a filmmaker, I feel it’s my duty to rouse my audience’s interest in an experience that is not superficial, that is a part of life, that they have never known before. Maybe we have different priorities.
Do you watch Hindi movies at all, the kind that are being made now?
Mostly, no. I am very picky about the movies I watch. I like to have prior knowledge about any movie that I watch and I leave halfway if I don’t like it. Hindi movies, unfortunately, don’t interest me. When I go to watch a movie, I am looking for the unusual, a new approach. There has to be something new that I can take back. But, unfortunately, in Hindi movies I know what I will see. A good-looking boy and girl dancing around trees and pretending life is just about that. I’d rather not see it.
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