Ramesh, who worked with Kamal in 10 films, including the popular comedy ‘Rama Shama Bhama’, a Kannada remake of the Tamil ‘Sathi Leelavathi’, says the “unique selling proposition” of the legendary actor is his commitment to excellence in whatever he does. He has been a force not just in my life but in Indian cinema as a whole,” popular actor-director Ramesh Aravind says. Kamal Haasan enjoyed such craze in the 1970s that every teenage boy, including me, wanted to be like him, while every teenage girl wanted to marry him. “Lasting two Fridays is difficult, forget about making an enduring impact for 60 years. Kamal’s commitment and ability to convert his ambitious ideas into reality is what made him survive in the highly competitive film world for six decades, artistes who have worked with him say. On the set of the latter, he met Rajinikanth and forged a long-lasting friendship that has flourished despite a strong artistic rivalry. His big break came in 1973 when his mentor K Balachander cast him in ‘Arangetram’ (1973) and ‘Aboorva Raagangal’ (1975).
Kamal used cinema to highlight social evils, and when several producers shunned his scripts as commercially non-viable, he floated his own production house. Kamal wouldn’t have been what he is today had he not been a perfectionist - he dubbed for his own roles and sat through gruelling long hours for makeup to bring his characters alive - as a dwarf in ‘Aboorva Sagotharargal’ (1989), a man playing a woman in ‘Avvai Shanmugi’ (1995) and in multiple roles in ‘Indian’ (1996), ‘Dasavatharam’ (2008) and ‘Vishwaroopam’ (2013). In Hindi, he made the path-breaking film ‘Hey Ram’ (2000) about the touchy subject of the partition and Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. He is one of the very few Southern actors to make an easy transition into Bollywood, where he unleashed his charm. Over the decades, he has acted in over 200 films, in all South Indian languages and Hindi.Įarning the sobriquet ulaga nayagan (global hero) for his courage to experiment with ideas without bothering about their commercial success, Kamal is a versatile artiste. Over the decades, he has acted in 200-plus films, encompassing all South Indian languages and Hindi, and celebrations have begun in his ‘karmabhumi’ Chennai and will culminate in a gala event on November 17. An innocent Kamal Haasan, then just four years old, emoting as an orphan in the song ‘Ammavum neeye, appavum neeye’ (you are mother as well as my father) in the Tamil film ‘Kalathur Kannamma’ (1960) is an enduring image of his six-decade-long career.Īfter 60 years, four National Awards, 19 Filmfare awards, a Padma Bhushan and innumerable classics that placed Indian cinema on the global map, Kamal, now 65, remains the man obsessed with perfecting the art.
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