On the sets of Adoor's new film

Reportage and photographs: Shobha Warrier

It was not difficult to locate where master filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan was shooting his new film. You had to only ask a passerby on the road off the National Highway 47 at Ambalapuzha, Kerala, and you were properly directed.

Adoor is shooting two feature films at a stretch (six weeks) in Kuttanad. Each film has three short stories by one of the greatest novelists in Malayalam, Jnanpith Award-winner Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (in the picture).

I was there to watch Adoor direct Nandita Das and Kavya Madhavan in Nitya Kanyaka, the longest of the three films in Moonnu Pennungal (These Three Women).

Nitya Kanyaka, written in 1945, is about two sisters. The older one (played by Nandita) is unattractive, while the younger is very beautiful (Madhavan). The older one is a spinster, out of social compulsion, not by choice.

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