Filmotsav Festival News – 86

An ex-employee of the Kerala State Electricity Board, who is now living on his pension and wife’s salary is one of the few actors in India who have acted in languages other than his mother-tongue and won laurels abroad for both. Gopy was recently conferred the Best Actor Award at the Tokyo Film Festival.” Cinema in its pure form is not yet born,” says the balding thespian who was first introduced to cinema by Adoor Gopalakrishnan in Swayamavaram , and subsequently acted in the same director’s Kodiyettam .