31
Mar

ജീവിതമെന്ന അസംബന്ധനാടകം.

Bharat Gopy as Tablist Ayyappan in Yavanika

അയ്യപ്പന്റെ തിരോധാനത്തെക്കുറിച്ച് അന്വേഷിക്കുന്ന ഈരാളി എന്ന പൊലീസ് ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥന്റെ ബുദ്ധികൂര്‍മ്മത ചിത്രത്തെ ആദിമദ്യാന്തം ഉദ്വേഗജനകമാക്കുന്നു. കുറ്റവാളിയെ കണ്ടെത്താന്‍ ഈരാളി സഞ്ചരിക്കുന്ന വഴികള്‍ പൊലീസ് അന്വേഷണത്തിന്റെ കാണാപ്പുറങ്ങള്‍ അനാവരണം ചെയ്തു. കഥയുടെ പശ്ചാത്തലത്തിലെ സൂക്ഷ്മതകള്‍ പോലും ചോര്‍ന്നുപോകാതെ ചിത്രം പകര്‍ത്തിയെടുക്കാന്‍ കെ ജി ജോര്‍ജിനു കഴിഞ്ഞു.

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27
Aug

Jai Arjun Singh on Aghaat, and Govind Nihalani’s use of actors

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Brooding intensity is sometimes an overrated quality in actors, but Puri’s performances as the mute victim of caste discrimination in Aakrosh and as the introspecting policeman in Ardh Satya are outstanding. As Madhav, a sincere man who begins to despair of the moral ambiguities he finds himself facing, he dominates Aghaat, which is some achievement considering the many acting heavyweights on view here. (The Malayali actor Bharath Gopi, as the menacing Krishnan, is another standout.)

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19
Nov

A classic called ‘Yavanika’

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Bharat Gopy has fond memories of the film. The moustache that my character, Ayyappan, sported was real. George made me pose for still photographs in the costumes of Ayyappan and that was it. The entire shoot was in the suburbs of Thiruvananthapuram (Vattiyoorkavu).

The theatre, the house to which I bring Jalaja, were all located nearby. If my memory serves me right, the name of the studio was ‘Sreekrishna Studio.’

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18
Mar

Bharat Gopy’s Dubai Visit | Gulf News

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Gulf News reports on Bharat Gopy’s upcoming visit to the Emirates, as guest of honor to inaugurate the Music Gala -98 fiesta to be held at Al Nasr Leisureland, organised by Varkala Sivasankaran, from the first week of May, 1998.

This was also Bharat Gopy’s first trip to the United Arab Emirates.

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15
Sep

Keynote Speech at the TR Sukumaran Memorial Theatre Fest – September 1992

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Bharat Gopy considered TR Sukumaran his “Acharya” in the art of theatre performances, and was the epitome of the finest performances in theatre he had witnessed in his lifetime, that haveb touched, moved and influenced him.

Bharat Gopy was invited to deliver the Keynote Speech at the TR Sukumaran Nair Memorial Theatre Fest in Thiruvananthapuram, organised by the Swati Thirunal Sangeeta Sabha.

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10
Nov

And now, a movie mela.

And now, a movie mela.

A retrospective of stars representing popular Hindi as well as regional films.This includes films of Dilip Kumar, Nargis, Waheeda Rehman, Meena Kumari, Balraj Sahni, Prithviraj Kapoor on the one hand and Shashi Kapoor, Smita Patil, Naseerudin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri, Soumitra Chatterjee, Gopy, Amitabh Bachchan on the other; works of atleast three women directors : Sai Paranjpye, Aparna Sen and Prema Karanth; some regional films that are part of the “new cinema” and which have been selected from among those shown at annual film festivals in India.

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15
May

Imitation of Life

Bharat Gopy in Lekhayude Maranam-Oru Flashback

The rest of the film show Lekha’s developing relationship with Suresh Babu, played by Gopy, the cameraman-director and art-film maker, who is married and has a son. At the pinnacle of her career, after she wins the Urvasi award for her performance in one of Suresh’s films, she elopes with him.Visalekshmi has hysterics and confronts Lekha in heavy, melodramatic scenes. Babu’s wife and son blackmail him emotionally. Finally Babu breaks off with Lekha, who commits suicide.

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22
Jul

Gopy seeks no glamour.

Gopy seeks no glamour.

The award-winning effort in Kodiyettam was only the second and his swan-song for the screen could be the role of a circus company manager in ‘Thambu’, directed by Aravindan, the tall, bald, unassuming and soft-spoken Gopy hinted. Quite unlike other role-hunting, individualistic, selfish, mercenary stars, Gopy is concerned about the total impact of a film. His concept and approach to the medium are also different. Success depends on the co-operation of the artistes and the technicians, he says.

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