Veteran filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan will donate 13.5 cents of land at Thoovayoor in Adoor, his native place, for LIFE Mission, the free housing programme of the Kerala state government. His decision came in the wake of local self government minister M.V. Govindan’s recent appeal to affluent people to part with land for the mission.
The minister visited the filmmaker’s house to personally thank him when he telephonically expressed his desire to donate. Adoor told the minister that his was not a donation but rather his responsibility towards the state.