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...hectare Chitranjali Film Studios - which Adoor helped found, like almost everything else that has to do with cinema in Kerala - we discover that the first print of his autobiographical masterpiece, Man of the Story, has disintegrated in the tropical heat. Adoor shakes his head and laughs gently. "When you see the print degrade like that, you realize what you do is ephemeral," he says. "It's something you spend so much effort on, but it dissolves so quickly...
...manage to find some prints that have yet to join the cinematic afterlife, and the two of us screen them in Chitranjali's cavernous - and, thankfully, air-conditioned - theater. Adoor watches as intently as I do. After we screen 1990's Walls, a gritty take on an imprisoned political writer, I ask Adoor if he would have done anything differently. He shakes his head. "Whatever I thought now would be very wrong," he says, "Because of the distance, I would not know now as I did then." Since Adoor depends utterly on himself, on his own instincts...
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