Kamal Haasan Turns 70: A Look At Lesser-known Facts About The Superstar – News18
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He is known to mentor numerous artists, who went on to do wonders in the Indian film industry.
Kamal Haasan’s deep passion towards film grew since his childhood.
Kamal Haasan is one of the most celebrated artists in the Indian film Industry. He has worked with numerous films that performed massively at the box office. His deep passion towards film grew since his childhood. He is also known to mentor numerous artists who went on to do wonders in the Indian film industry. It is known that he studies every aspect of a story before working on it. The actor celebrated his 70th birthday yesterday. Let us know some unknown facts about the legendary actor in this article:
In the 1980s, he ran a literary magazine called Mayyam. The actor managed to run it for a very short time.
Early in his career, Kamal Haasan started a dance group named Sivalaya and later joined famous choreographer Thangappan as an assistant choreographer.
He is the only actor who has acted in Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, and Bengali.
In an interview, Kamal Haasan mentioned that he has a dream of directing and acting in a film as a “single-man unit” by wearing a Steadicam on his hip, similar to Hollywood director Steven Soderbergh, who directed the Oscar-winning film Traffic.
There is a film named Marudhanayagam, which Kamal Haasan started to film with great passion. It remained unfinished.
Many of his fans believe that Sattam En Kaiyil was Kamal Haasan’s first film in a double role, but he actually played a dual role for the first time at a young age in Parthal Pasi Theerum.
After Babri Masjid was demolished, Kamal Haasan, who was in Delhi, immediately met Prime Minister Narasimha Rao to voice his protest against such an action. Kamal was the first actor in the film industry to protest the demolition.
Kamal Haasan has tasted immense success in his career in the film industry. He has won Filmfare Awards over 18 times. He was awarded Padma Bhushan in the year 2014. He was also honoured with the Order of Arts and Letters by the Government of France in 2016
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