IN MEMORIAM

ഗോപിയെ ഞാനാദ്യം കാണുന്നത് ‘സ്വയംവര’ത്തിൽത്തന്നെയാണ്. തന്നെ പുറത്താക്കിയ മരക്കടയുടെ അടഞ്ഞ ഗേറ്റിൽ പിടിച്ച് ഉള്ളിലേക്ക് നോക്കിനില്ക്കുന്ന ആ രൂപം! എന്തെന്തു ഭാവങ്ങളാണ് ആ ഒറ്റ നില്പിൽ മുഖത്തുവന്ന് അലയടിച്ചു മറയുന്നത്! ക്രോധം,നിസ്സഹായത, നിരാശ, മോഹഭംഗം, പ്രതികാരവാഞ്ഛ അങ്ങനെയങ്ങനെ.

“Brutal honesty was his hallmark when it came to bringing characters alive onscreen,” AR Rajeev writes. He had this sublime gift of exactly guaging and entering a character’s mindscape as envisioned by the playwright or the scenarist.

Usually, there is a certain degree of “transmission loss” that occurs in the process, but with Bharat Gopy, it was exact. It was also what demarcated him from the “average” performers onscreen.

There were people who told me that scene was not funny and that it was suffocating to watch Gopy’s performance. But what they did not factor in was Dushassana Kurup’s nature. This man is intellectually-challenged. He was told to deliver a thundering speech and he, in his stupidity, thought it meant he had to sound as ear-splitting as possible.The guy would have ceased to be Dushassana Kurup had Gopy delivered the speech even half-a-pitch lower. Gopy knows better.