Filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan resigns as president of Kerala Film Institute

Adoor Gopalakrishnan Resigned: famous filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan On Tuesday, K.R. Narayanan has resigned from the post of chairman of the National Institute of Visual Science and Arts. His move comes days after the institute’s director Shankar Mohan resigned following allegations of caste discrimination by some students and staff.

Dadasaheb Phalke awardee Gopalakrishnan announced his resignation at a press conference held here and also supported Mohan. He said that “Mohan is a respected and distinguished professional who has worked in various government film institutes during the last four decades.”

The filmmaker said that Mohan had been working with him for the last three years to take the institute from the ground up and make it one of the best film institutes in the country.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan said these things

He was such a professional person whom we had invited and after that he was forced to resign by making baseless, false and defamatory allegations. The filmmaker also questioned the findings of a preliminary inquiry committee set up by the Higher Education Department, following which Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, on his request, set up a commission to probe the matter.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan claimed that the committee never called him or Mohan for questioning and that the commission also did not conduct a proper investigation on the issue.

Has won the National Film Award 6 times

Adoor Gopalakrishnan is a well-known filmmaker of the country. Starting his career with the feature film ‘Swayamvaram’ in the year 1972, he has produced more than one brilliant film. Today his name is counted among the big filmmakers. Let us tell you that he has also been awarded the National Film Award 6 times. That’s where K.R. Narayanan was working as the chairman of the National Institute of Visual Science and Arts. However, now he has resigned from this post.