P.V. Gopalakrishnan, born 1945, is a CA by profession and had spent in his corporate career years, nearly 25 years in Africa and Middle East.

Currently living in Bangalore post retirement, he is pursuing his interests in travel, music and writing. A regular blogger, writing on music in the social media, he has recently written and published a book, “Nitrate Saga” in two volumes about the nascent cinema’s evolution and growth in India with an accent of Tamil Films till the decade of 1950s.