Legendary filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan turns 80
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Thiruvananthapuram, July 3 : Legendary filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan on Saturday turned 80.
He lives in the state capital city in his tastefully decorated house designed by late Lawrie Baker and he is alone as his wife passed away a few years back, while his only daughter is an IPS officer in Maharashtra.
Though he has directed just a dozen feature films starting with Swayamwaram in 1972, in his glittering career he has won the national film awards 16 times, 17 Kerala State awards besides numerous international awards and also the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2004.
The country has decorated him with a Padma Shri in 1984 and followed it up with the Padma Vibhushan in 2006.