Filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan slams National Film Awards selection

December 27, 2016 19:45

Noted filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan has come out strongly against the jury members chosen to head this year's national film awards.

He has written to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting urging it to ensure that the jury to select this year's national award is headed by a filmmaker of eminence who is familiar with modern trends in cinema and who enjoys a national stature.

In his letter, he urged the Centre to treat the selection of jury chairman and members seriously and stop an incompetent jury from sitting in judgement.

"The national film awards were conceived as a means to select and award films for their thematic relevance, social commitment, original approach, technical excellence and above all aesthetic brilliance. Unfortunately, when the national awards of 2015 were announced all major awards including best film, and director went to outright commercial movies, undermining the very purpose of which the awards were instituted," said Gopalakrishnan in his letter.

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