Kamal Haasan is a Tamil film actor, dancer, film director, screenwriter, producer, playback singer, lyricist, and politician from India. Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, and Bengali films have all featured Hassan. In the 1960 film Kalathur Kannamma, Kamal Haasan made his screen debut as a 6-year-old child actor. With his appearance in the 1975 drama Apoorva Raagangal, Kamal Haasan made his breakthrough into leading roles. Haasan was regarded as a major Tamil film star at the turn of the decade, after his rise to fame in the latter half of the 1970s. In 1981’s Raja Paarvai, Haasan made his 100th career film appearance, as well as his first as a producer.
The actor has strong opinions on politics, philosophy, culture, and civilization, which he faithfully depicts in his films. Kamal Haasan’s life will inspire you to achieve your goals. Here are some of the quotes of Kamal Hassan that is truly inspiring and motivatonal.
- “I am a 21st century man. I don’t believe in magic. I believe in sweat, tears, life and death. “
- “I don’t need a god who doesn’t feed a hungry child today, but promises you a heaven tomorrow.”
- “I have great respect for the unconditional teachers called “books”. Because from a book, you can either learn, or you can’t.”
- “Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.”
- “People ask me, ‘Is yours an atheistic principle?’ Boldly I reply, ‘No. Atheism is my tool. Humanism is my principle.”
- “I am a son of Socrates. If you give me a cup of poison, I will sip it and speak my freedom.”
- “Acceptance is the only thing you should teach. Be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Dalit, you must inculcate acceptance, not tolerance.”
- “I always travel inward rather than outward. When you travel inside, it’s fantastic distances you can cover.”
Four National Film Awards and 19 Filmfare Awards have been bestowed upon him. In 1984, he received the Kalaimamani Award, followed by the Padma Shri Award in 1990, the Padma Bhushan Award in 2014, and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Chevalier) Award in 2016. In 2013, at the 15th Mumbai International Film Festival, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award. In the film Dasavatharam, he became the first Indian actor to play the most roles in a single film. He is the only Tamil actor of his age who has appeared in a silent movie. Kamal Haasan holds the record for playing the lead role in the most number of films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Kamal Haasan is unquestionably one of India’s most talented actors. In 2018, he also announced the formation of his political party, Makkal Needhi Maiam. Kamal Haasan, who has always taken the path less travelled, is one Indian actor who is a one-man industry in himself. Kamal’s list of accomplishments is lengthy, from dramatically altering his appearance to portraying the hardest of roles in prosthetics at a time when no one else had attempted it in film.