Bharat Gopi is one of the best actors in Malayalam cinema. Today is his memorial day. On this occasion, his son, actor and screenwriter Murali Gopi is getting attention for his words written about his father.
Muraligopi’s post is accompanied by a photo taken in the 1990s. Full version of the post – ‘Today is Father’s Day. My father never cared about taking photos or keeping them in albums. Because of its rarity, each image in hand is priceless.
In 1986, at the age of 49, my father suffered a stroke. Four and a half years of great mental wars have passed. In the early 1990s, if my memory serves me right, the then star photographer of Mathrubhumi, Shri. This is one of the photographs taken by Rajan Judhuwal when he came home. ‘Would you turn around and look this way, sir?’ He asked. This picture is that look.
I have sat and looked into the eyes of the father in this photo many times since. Murali Gopi wrote, “Remembering the entire life up to that point, without adding or subtracting anything, everything that I saw and what I had was stacked together in one moment, as if I faced it all without batting an eyelid…a look back”.
