Gopi

Gopi

Birth : 1937-11-08, Trivandrum, Travancore, British India

Death : 2008-01-29

History

Gopinathan Velayudhan Nair, also known as Bharat Gopi, was an Indian film actor, producer, and director. He was one of the first actors to be associated with the New Wave cinema movement in Kerala during the 1970s. He has won many awards, including the National Film Award for Best Actor for his role as Sankarankutty in Kodiyettam (1977). His well-known roles include Aiyappan in Yavanika, Vasu Menon in Palangal, Prof. "Shakespeare" Krishna Pillai in Kattathe Kilikoodu, Dushasana Kurup in Panchavadi Palam, Nandagopal in Ormakkayi, Mammachan in Adaminte Vaariyellu, Shankaran in Chidambaram and Krishnan Raju in Aghaat. He has directed four movies including Ulsavapittennu (1989) and Yamanam (1991). He also produced the movie Padheyam (1993) directed by Bharathan. In 1991 the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri for his contributions towards the arts.

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Gopi
Gopi

Movies

Aakasha Gopuram
Abraham
The film, in Malayalam and made by the Indian film maker K P Kumaran, AkashaGopuram is set among the Indian immigrant community in London and tells the story of Albert Samson (Mohanlal), a middle-aged architect who has clawed his way to prominence.
Dae! Ingottu Nokkiye...
The film is about Vettikadu Sivan (Jayasurya), a young, intelligent man who sets out on a mission to settle a score and give a peace of mind to his uncle Vettikadu Sadasivan (Jagathy Sreekumar) who is the chief minister of the state. To do this, Sivan hatches a plan to get the twin brother of Sadasivan who is settled in Gujarat and is an ordinary banana seller and a bit on the lesser side of intelligence.
Paradesi
The film talks the issue of Indian citizens who left the country before independence in search of job, mostly to Arabia, and happened to reach Pakistan, and then when returned to the homeland, happened to be holding a Pakistani passport, and now is forced by the Indian authorities to leave the nation to Pakistan, which even the Pakistani authorities won't allow.
Nasrani
Narayana Swamy
Nasrani takes us to the Kottayam belt, where rich rubber planters and estate owners live. One such rich planter is David John Kottarathil, popularly known as DK. DK spends most of his time at the Cosmo Club, where he is the secretary too. He has his say over all spheres of human activity. He is respected and feared too.
Nivedyam
Nivedyam tells the life of Mohana Krishnan, who is an outspoken Brahmin guy who is presently into carpentry work to keep his family composed of his widowed mother and sister.
Ekadanta
Producer
Ekadhantha revolves around a couple and they don't have child.
Rasathanthram
Balan Master
Rasathanthram tells the story of Premachandaran(Mohanlal)  who is a carpenter with a few secrets and lives along with his father Balan Master(Bharath Gopi) and works along with his friend Manikandan (Innocent). They are now working in a house near the house of a rich landlord. Kanmani (Meera Jasmine), who was sold by her mother works in that house as a servant and is ill-treated.One night, Premachandran goes to his workplace to take his tools. He sees Kanmani moving out of the house and gets puzzled. He follows her. She was on the verge on committing suicide. he decides to save her from the hell and promises her a job somewhere far away.But the police are looking for her everywhere and he had to hide her somehow. That is when they chance upon the idea of disguising her as a man. Kanmani fall in love with Premachandran but he doesn’t reciprocate—she couldn’t understand why
Wanted
Anu's Father
Wanted movie revolves around Unni, Nandu, Mani and Chupran who are friends who are unemployed but have a lot of liabilities in life. Unni aspires to become a police officer while Nandu wants to go to the Middle East. Mani is a loner who is willing to take any risk in life to make fast money and Chupran is taunted by his parents at home.
Ente Hridayathinte Udama
Director
Ente Hridayathinte Udama movie is about a lonely woman Uma who college teacher meets Pavitran who is a political activist. When he revolts against the practices of corruption within the party he is silenced. It is a murder ordered by the vested groups in the party.
Dubai
Joseph Pandala
Major Ravi, who tries to expose the evil plans of a politician, is framed in a murder. Upon release, he moves to Dubai and becomes a business tycoon; however, his rivals are out to destroy his empire.
Susanna
Susanna (Vani Vishwanath) has sexual relationships with five men at the same time. But she maintains her femininity, and over time the men outgrow their lust for her. Though society brands her a prostitute, the men regard her as an indispensable friend, companion, teacher and guide.
Samantharangal
Musaliyar
A story of a father and Son and their family , Ismail ( Bharat Balachandra Menon ) is a hardworking , sincere and straight forward station master , he likes to lead a simple life , but his son Najeeb ( Rajesh Rajan ) 18 but yet not matured of his age dreams of making money and want to lead a business life . He once happens to request 10,000Rs for opening a telephone booth . His father asks him to have his studies completed and then he would offer . But Najeeb becomes irritated on his father's advise and leaves home to join Politics with local Political Leader Sai kumar . In Politics Najeeb could meet his aims and becomes popular in the country .
Elavamkodu Desam
Agnisarmman
Kaikkudanna Nilavu
Mahi and his family shelters Veni after her grandfather's death. He also tries to find Veni's boyfriend who is missing.
Thalolam
Tathamangalam
Haridas leaves his daughter in Sankaran Unni's care and goes to Paris. The child dies and 16 years later when Haridas returns, Sankaran Unni is forced to present his daughter as Haridas'.
Ormakalundayirikkanam
Tharakan
Agnidevan
K. K. Menon
Agnidevan is a 1995 Malayalam film directed by Venu Nagavalli. The film stars Mohanlal, Revathi Menon, Devan and Bharath Gopi in lead roles.
Vishnu
Judge
Jaishankar sends away his son Vijay out of fear of the greedy relative Thalaivasal. When Vijay returns after a long time, Thalaivasal assigns him the job of killing Jaishankar's son, unaware of his real identity.
Vardhakya Puranam
Rajani's Father
Omanakuttan Pillai, Cherian Thomas and Mahendran Thambi are retired citizens. In order to keep themselves busy, they decide to set up a drama troupe.
Padheyam
K. V. Raghavan
Chandradas, a renowned poet, accidentally meets his estranged teenage daughter, Harita. After great effort, he is able to take his daughter to his ancestral home. But Harita's past haunts her.
Padheyam
Producer
Chandradas, a renowned poet, accidentally meets his estranged teenage daughter, Harita. After great effort, he is able to take his daughter to his ancestral home. But Harita's past haunts her.
Yamanam
Director
Ambili is a handicapped girl who has the hobby of making models and toys. When a doctor proposes to marry Ambili, she refuses upon realizing that his feelings are out of sympathy towards her.
Ulsavapittennu
Director
The story revolves around Aniyan Thampuran (Mohanlal), a naive and innocent prince of an erstwhile royal family, and his household in a village of Kerala. His family is heavily indebted by the wayward lifestyle of his elder brother Chettan Thampuran (Sukumaran). Chettan Thampuran's untimely death forces Aniyan to take responsibility for the family. He loses his house and all properties to pay his brother's debts and is led to financial ruin. He realizes that his wife (Parvathy) had an affair with his friend Balan and married him only because of the poverty in her family. This realization devastates him further and culminates in his suicide in a heart-breaking scene.
Udayam Padinjaru
Thambi
Happily married, Lakshmi and Menon live in the US with their three children. However, when Lakshmi sees her husband with a foreign woman, she becomes determined to end her marriage and raise her kids by herself.
Ice Cream
Viswantha Panicker
Two teenagers escape from an institution and are on the run having fun all along. Their paths cross with two elderly friends and they join in their adventures.
Revathikkoru Pavakkutty
Balan Menon
Revathi's parents separated when she was young, and she was raised by her mother who taught her that her father was a bad man. Years later , with her father sick, he send's a last wish to see his daughter. Revathi refuses to go , so her orphan friend goes in a her place without her knowing to fulfill his wish.
Meenamasathile Suryan
School Teacher
Four bachelors struggle to overcome obstacles that come their way when they fight against the British to attain India's independence.
Karimpin Poovinakkare
Chellannan
The film revolves around the life and revenge of a few villagers against each other.
Kanathaya Penkutty
Devadas Menon
A girl goes missing. It later emerges that she has been murdered by someone close to her.
Gayathridevi Ente Amma
Mahadevan Thampi
Appu's father lies to him that his mother is dead. Devoid of a mother's love, Appu resorts to smoking and drinking until he learns that she's still alive.
Puli Varunne Puli
Chairman
A political satire about the corrupt political leaders and the affinity to get rich through any means.
Irakal
Cardinal
Mathews, a ruthless rubber baron, is involved in various criminal activities. Baby, Mathews' son, begins to turn violent due to the environment he has grown up in, causing Mathews to repent his deeds.
Punnaram Cholli Cholli
Krishnankutty
Biju (Rahman) spends his vacation in his father's ancestral village. Krishnankutty (Gopi) and Sivaraman (Nedumudi), the caretakers of his father's property siphons off the produce from the land without Biju's knowledge. Meanwhile Vinodini (Zareena Wahab) comes to the village as a bank officer. Biju and Vinodini become friends and she considers him like a brother to her.
Chidambaram
Mohandas
Chidambaram is based on a short story by noted Malayalam writer C V Shriraman. The film is a deeply symbolic exploration of the man-woman attraction leading to betrayal and eventually to the purgatory of guilt.
Akkare
Gopi
Panchavadi Palam
Dussasanan Pillai
A henpecked politician wants his name attached to a new bridge, even if that means destroying another, perfectly serviceable bridge.
Aduthaduthu
Fr. Augustine Kuriappalli
Ayyappan Pillai (Karamana Janardanan Nair) & Thankappan Pillai (Thilakan), friends, neighbors & business partners, plans to have Thankappan's son Raju (Rahman) marry Ayyappan's daughter Radha (Ahalya). However, their kids, both of whom who were in love with someone else, blocks the marriage by causing misunderstandings between their families. But when Raju's & Radha's romances fail & they fall in love with each other, now they have to reunite their warring families, for them to unite themselves.
Appunni
Ayyappan Nair
Appunni and Ammukutty are lovers from childhood. Ammukutty's father Ayyappan Nair arranges her marriage with a rich school teacher, Menon Mash. Ammukutty is happy to break her relationship with Appunni and get married to the rich Menon Mash.
Aarorumariyathe
Stephen George
Professor Panicker sets out on a trip with his two friends, Varma and Stephen. Among the three, Stephen is a bachelor. Troubles shoot up when Varma tries to find a girl to share his bed.
Adaminte Vaariyellu
Mamachan
The film portrays a realistic take on the issues of women in society through the lens of 3 protagonists. Vasanthi has to mother three generations of her family in addition to her daytime job. Alice is married to a ruthless businessman and seeks solace in affairs. Ammini is an orphan who works as a maid and is sexually abused by her master.
April Pathinettu
April 18 is a 1984 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Balachandramenon and produced by Augustine Prakash. The film stars Balachandramenon, Shobhana, Adoor Bhasi and Bharath Gopi in lead roles.
Aksharangal
V. P. Menon
Jayadevan, a popular writer, though married to Bharathi, is in love with Geetha. When he suddenly falls ill, Geetha takes care of him till his last day.
Prem Nazirine Kanmanilla
Bharath Gopi
A group of frustrated youngsters kidnap the famous Malayalam actor Prem Nazir from his film shooting set. Shockwaves are felt across Kerala and it soon becomes the one thing that everyone's talking about. The film is a satire that discusses how the society deals with this news and the events that follow.
Lekhayude Maranam Oru Flashback
Suresh
Lekha is an aspiring actress who becomes successful and very popular. One day, she commits suicide! Why?
Asthram
Capt. C. S. Nair
Sandhya Mayangum Neram
Balagangadhara Menon
Deals with the emotions of a judge in his retirement years
Kattathe Kilikkoodu
Prof. 'Shakespeare' Krishna Pillai
Kattathe Kilikkoodu movie is a story about an unhappy marriage that unravels in a bad way.
Ente Mamattukkuttiyammakku
Vinod
Eettillam
Moitheen Bava
Abida hails from a poor family and lives with her grandfather. However, she falls in love with a man who she thinks will change their lives for the better, unaware of the secrets he hides.
Oru Swakaryam
Rachana
Sreeprasad
Rachana is a 1983 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Mohan and produced by Sivan Kunnampilly. The film stars Srividya, Nedumudi Venu, Bharath Gopi and Mammootty in lead roles. The film had musical score by MB Sreenivasan.Bharath Gopi won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film.
Marmaram
Nirmala's Husband
A Headmaster falls in love with a Music teacher whose husband was a political activist.
Ormakkayi
Nandan
Susanna (Madhavi) is released from jail after five years for the accidental murder of a pop singer. She reflects on the events that led up to the tragic event. Bharath Gopi plays the role of Nandu, a deaf and dumb sculptor and Susanna's husband.
Novemberinte Nashtam
Meera's Father
The movie is about a girl's emotional turmoil after a breakup and her ever supportive brother and how they try to get through the difficult period.
Yavanika
Tablist Aiyappan
Ayyappan, a tabla player of a touring drama group, goes missing. Later on, Sub-Inspector Jacob Eeraly is assigned to investigate the case and finds out disturbing truths.
Vida Parayum Munpe
Dr. Thomas
Xavier, a stenographer, finds himself terminated after his boss learns that he lied to him for a leave. However, when the boss learns that Xavier is a cancer patient, he regrets his decision.
Kallan Pavithran
Mamachan
Pavithran is a petty thief who wants to regain his lost image. He asks mill owner Mamachan for a job, but is turned down. However, a robbery in Mamachan's house changes Pavithran's life forever.
Palangal
Vasu Menon
Usha (Zarina Wahab) comes to her sister's house for relief from a terrible tragedy of her life which is the accidental death of her lover Ravi played by Shankar. In the new place, she meets Ramankutty, played by Nedumudi Venu, who is the friend of Vasu Menon (Bharath Gopi), husband of her sister. Their friendship eventually turns into love, but Ramankutty's mother does not allow this proposal. Usha slowly realizes that Vasu Menon's feelings for her are wayward, but she does not tell her sister as she fears that this will ruin their family. So Usha decides to go back to her home, on the way she meets Ramankutty, who has convinced his mother about marrying Usha.
Arising from the Surface
Ramesh
Taking an experimental approach to the relationship between the written text and moving image, Mani Kaul has a series of texts read aloud in voice-overs (poetry, essays, and stories), while the characters within the texts walk through real or imaginary landscapes.
Peruvazhiyambalam
Tea Shop Owner
Peruvazhiyambalam is a 1979 Malayalam film directed by P. Padmarajan based on his novel of the same name. It marked Padmarajan's directorial debut and the acting debut for Ashokan who plays the central character Raman. The film is an incisive examination of how violence or totalitarianism works in our society; it dealt with disturbing questions relating to masculinity and how people adore and dread it at the same time. The Hindu described this film as one of the finest films in Malayalam. It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam. The film was included in IBN Live's list of 100 greatest Indian films of all time.
Kodiyettam
Sankaran Kutty
Sankarankutty, a village simpleton, lives a carefree life, indulges in childish pursuits, lives off the money given to him by his sister (working elsewhere as a servant), and eats quite voraciously. Then one day he gets married, but the wife is frustrated by his aimless lifestyle & irresponsible attitude (even after she gets pregnant). So she goes back to her parents. Meanwhile, his sister who is now living with her lover, can no longer provide for him, and a kind widow who used to care for him passes away. He has nowhere & nobody to fall back on, and from this point on, as he starts a job as assistant to a lorry driver, he starts looking at life in a whole new way and begins to mature as well.
Thampu
Circus Manager
Across a dirt road, the circus truck comes to a village. The tent goes up. Schoolboys run to the tent. Village women come and watch an acrobat roll a hoop across a tightrope. A lion leaps from the edge of one stool - across darkness - on to another stool. A gap-toothed old woman gazes at a goat on a tight rope; her eyes are wide with curiosity. For three days the circus makes small ripples in the life of this village. Municipal permits are required. At a toddy shop, a soldier befriends the circus strongman; a pump attendant sits on a rock each day watching a village girl bathe and dry her hair. The dwarf brings back to the circus a watermelon larger than his head. In the film's three days, we, the viewers, learn the geography of the village: the banyan treewith leaves like transparent film, the shining water, the light on the sand at sunset. When the circus leaves the village, it leaves us. The narrative says: The circus comes and leaves; life goes on.
Swayamvaram
The dismissed employee
Vishwam and Sita, who resist the opposition from their families, elope and marry. The unemployed couple begin a happier married life, but soon land in a sea of perils without a source of income.