Noted Malayalam filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan said his films were never `an accident', but the culmination of a prolonged process of `revelation and discovery'.

"I have never tried to repeat the treatment or pattern of my earlier films. I don't like to get into any mould. I am a person subjected to changes happening around me," he said at a face-to-face programme arranged by the press club in Thiruvananthapuram.

Adoor, whose latest film, `NIZHALKKUTHU' (Shadow Kill) was screened for the press, said he had never felt that any of his films could have been made in a better way. "I consider all my films as the best I could make at a given point of time," he remarked.

Adoor said he made only such films, which provided him some excitement as an artiste. "There is no Adoorism as such." I want the maximum number of people to watch and enjoy my films. I am not scared of popularity. I like popularity," he said, and cautioned against the audience `assigning' specific roles to commercial and serious film-makers.

He said all his films had underlying political statement including `NIZHALKKUTHU', which had already been shown at six international film festivals. The film was about human beings who fall into inescapable traps set by the prevailing system. The protagonist of the film, a hangman, is one who is denied the freedom to think and act on his own.

"Even after 50 years of independence, we are still in the trap. We are not being able to liberate ourselves," he said.