Monday, April 5, 2010

Kamal Hassan - Biography


Kamal Hassan


Name: Kamal Hassan

Date of Birth: 7-November-1954

Place of Born: Paramakudi, Tamil Nadu.


His father Srinivasan experienced law and his mother is Rajalakshmi. His brothers Charu and Chandra too carry the surname Hassan due to their father’s friendship with a man named Hassan. Hassan was married to traditional dancer Vani Ganapathi in 1978. They parted conduct in 1988. He after that married the actress Sarika with whom he had two daughters Akshara and Shruthi, the latter is all set to make her mark as an actress. The wedding with Sarika broke up in 2002. He is rumored to be living with Gouthami, a well-known actress.

Kamal Hassan was made his first appearance in 1960; while he was six years old, in the Tamil film Kalathur Kannamma. He won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist, the first of his four National Awards. He acted in at least five other films as a child.

1970-1979 When he came back to films again in 1972, he played second fiddle to leading stars like in Arangetram and Sollathan Ninaikkiren. In 1974, his acting prowess was recognized with a Filmfare Best Actor Award for his role in Kanyakumari, a Malayalam film. The awards became just about schedule with the Tamil films that followed like K. Balachander's Apoorva Raagangal which explored relationships with age-gaps, which was contentious in that period; 16 Vayathinile in which he played the role of a man who is spiritually immature and also Manmadha Leelai, and Oru Oodhappu Kan Simittugiradhu. He was part of several films directed by K.Balachandran and worked with co-stars like Sridevi and Rajinikanth. In Tamil films, like Moondram Pirai and Apoorva Sagodharargal. He won the National Film Award in support of Moondram Pirai in which he played a teacher by way of Sridevi, at eighties. His Telugu film in 1983, Saagara Sangamam won him the Filmfare Best Telugu Actor Award for his portrayal of a dancer. He moreover starred in the Hindi films Ek Duje Ke Liye and Sagar, the latter won him the Filmfare Best Actor Award, in 1985. The 1989 film, Pushpak, a silent film and a black comedy, won him the Filmfare Best Kannada Actor Award. Nayagan, encouraged by The Godfather, fetched him his third National Film Award. It was India’s entry to the Academy Awards’ Best Foreign Language Film category in 1987.

The nineties saw a batch of laughs with films be fond of Michael Madhana Kamarajan, Sathi Leelavathi based on She-Devil and Avvai Shanmughi based on Mrs.Doubtfire. In 1992, he produced and acted in Thevar Magan, for which he got the Filmfare Best Tamil Actor Award for his role of Shakti, the son of a village cranium. The film was nominated in 1992 for the Academy Awards’ Best Foreign Language Film category. Indian, a Tamil film released in 1996, saw Hassan under your own steam left with his fourth National Film Award and The Filmfare Best Tamil Actor Award. He made his executive debut amid Chachi 420, a re-establish of Avvai Shanmughi in Hindi. The year 2000 began by way of his second clerical endeavor Hey Ram, which was made in Hindi and Tamil. Hassan scripted, produced and acted in it. He won the Filmfare Best Tamil Actor Award, however the film was further of a decisive success rather than a viable one. He acted in pretty a few funnies like Thenali, Panchathantiram and Pammal K. Sambandam. He played Nalla Sivam in Anbe Sivam amid Madhavan. He directed, scripted, acted and produced Virumaandi in 2004, concerning death consequence. In 2006 he had a big hit in Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu, in which played a frank rob. His most recent film in 2008 was the extravagant Dasavathaaram, in which he played ten diverse roles.