Word: chitralekha
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...discovered the language of cinema, the very experience of cinema as a high art form." After his graduation in 1965, Adoor returned home and took the New Wave message to the masses, forming the state's pioneering film society, organizing its first international film festival and founding the Chitralekha Film Cooperative with other would-be New Wavers. He spent the rest of the 1960s studying avant-garde world cinema (a 1969 visit to the U.S. left him impressed by "all the happenings") and learning the mechanics of filmmaking, from sound recording to accounting ("the most important part"). Then...
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