KAMAL HASAN

KAMAL HASAN
BORN innovember 7,1954 in paramakudi,Madras State ,India) is an indian film actor, script writer,producer and director,considered one of the leading method actors of Indian cinema.Hassan is known winning several Indian film awards,including film awards, including four national filmm awards and filmfare awards,and has the distinction of being the actor with the most number of films submitted by indiain contest for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Lnguage Film.Two notable filmshe has directed include hey ram(2000) and virumanndi(2004).Kamal hasan's breakthrough as a lead actor came with his role in the 1975 drama apoorva raagangal, in which he played a rebellious youth in love with an older woman.He secured his first Indian National Film Award for his portrayyal of a guileless school teacher who tends a child-like amnesiac in 1982's Moondram Pirai. He was particularly noted for his performance in Mani Ratnam's Godfatheresque Nayagan (1987),which was ranked by time magazine as one of the best films of all time.
EARLY CAREER
Kamal hasan made his film debut as a 6 -year-old child artiste, in the film kalathur kannamma, which was released in 1960, directed by A.Bhimsingh .He was cast along with the Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan in the film.He acted as a child actor in five other tamil films in the subsequent few years co-starring with sivaji ganesan and M.G.Ramachandran.Following a nine year hiatus from films, to concentrate on his education , hassan returned with a series of low budget films in 1972,in all of which he played supporting roles.These films included roles in Arangetram and sollathaan ninaikkiren , botj co-starring sivakumar. His final supporting role before establishing himself as a lead actor was in Naan Avanillai.
FAMILY
Kmal haasan was born on november 7,1954 to a criminal lawyer named D.Srinivasan and his devout wife Rajalakshmi ,both a part of the Tamil lyender caste, in the village of paramakudi in the ramanathpuram district of Tamil nadu.Kamal haasan is the youngest of three brothers, the other being charuhasan and chandrahasan .Charuhasan is a national film award-winning actor.His niece,suhasini is also a national film award winner and is married to director Mani ratnam.Chandra haasan has appered as the producer for several of kamal hassan's films as well as being an executive of kamal hassan's home production company ,Rajkamal International.