Actor Full Name: Kamal Hassan
Family: Srinivasan Iyer-Father,
Rajalakshmi-Mother
Charu and Chandra- two brothers,
Shruti and Akshara-his daughters
Date of birth: November 7th, 1954
Born and Brought up in: Paramakkudi of
Ramanathapuram District
First Film: Kalathoor Kannamma in Tamil Lanuguages acted in: Tamil, Kannada, Telugu,
Malayalam and Hindi
Special Talent: Classical Dance
Awards Padmashree, Kalaimamani Awards and states awards
from Tamil Nadu government.
National award for best
actor for Mundram Pirai (1963), Nayakan 1988 and Indian
1996.
Based in the south Indian film industry Kamal Haasan is
a highly acclaimed and highly versatile Indian film actor.
He a was born to Rajalakshmi and Srinivasan as their
fourth and youngest child. Kamal’s all three sibling has
the suffix Haasan� as a sign of his friendship to one Mr. Haasan.
He entered the film world as a child actor at the tender
age of 6 in the film Kalathur Kannamma and has been
associated with the film world since then. Kamal Haasan
learnt the fine arts in his early years instead of school
work.
When he was a teenager, he started working as an
assistant choreographer in movies and it was during this
time that his long and fruitful association with notable
Tamil film director, K. Balachander began.
Kamal’s acting career spreads over four decades. Kamal is known in the Indian film industry for his talent and versatility he has
capably played a diversity of characters in his films.
Kamal has appeared in movies made in six languages, including the four major South Indian languages – Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and
Malayalam. Kamal other forays were into the North Indian movie indusrty via Hindi and
Bengali films.
He is also an actor, director,
producer, screenplay writter, lyricst, comedian, dancer, singer. Kamal acted in commercialised
films for a major portion of his career, but then moved away from the purely commercial
ventures. Kamal is also a trained playback singer and sometimes pens the lyrics for the
soundtracks of some of his recent films.
He is also an
able performer of the Bharatanatyam dance form. Kamal
had assisted in choreography early in his career and he
is easily the greatest actor Tamil cinema has ever
produced.
He is a three-time winner of the National Film
Award for Best Actor for the films Nayagan, Moondram
Pirai, and Indian. Kamal also won the national award for
Best Child Actor for his performance in Kalathoor
Kannamma. Kamal has also received the best actor award
at the Asian Film festivals held in 1983 and 1985 for
Saagara Sangamam and Swathi Muthyam respectively. Six
of Kamal movies have been sent as India’s official entry
to the Oscars- The only actor to achieve this feat in the
sub-continent. He has won the Filmfare awards 18 times.
Kamal was awarded the fourth highest recognition given
to Indian civilians – the Padmashri in 1990. Kamal was
conferred an honorary doctorate by Sathyabama Deemed
University, Chennai in 2005.
He has won a total of 171 awards which is more than any
other actor in the world living or dead. Kamal was
named as kalaignani� meaning – an idiol of art, by M.
Karunanidhi for his classical work towards tamil cinema.
In Kamal upcoming film Dasavatharam, he is playing 10
different roles, an act which is the second of its kind in
the world, after the Tamil movie Dambachari (1936).
Kamal was married to Vani Ganapathy and later married
Sarika with whom he has two daughters (Shruthi and
Akshara) and with whom he is now separated.
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