Kamal Hasaan, a well-known name in Tamil cinema, has also proven his worth in the Hindi film industry. He has appeared in a number of blockbusters, including Sadma, Saagar, Ek Duje Ke Vaaste, Pushpak, and Hey Ram. Hasan began his acting career as a child actor. He is recognised for playing a vast range of roles and going to incredible lengths to get inside the form of the character, practically, after more than 50 years in the industry. Kamal Hasan’s dedication to cinema extends beyond acting; he has written screenplays, produced and directed films, and also performed playback singing and choreography. Here are some of the unknown facts about Kamal Hasaan.
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Hit two goals with one shot
Only Kamal Haasan has won 19 Filmfare awards. He is also the first actor to be presented for both a Best Actor award and a Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the Filmfare Awards for that very same film, Saagar.
2. A child prodigy
Kamal Haasan acting debut as a child actor, winning the coveted President’s Gold Medal for his role in Kalathur Kannamma at the age of four.
3. Dancing skills
Not only is Kamal Haasan an excellent actor, but he is also a great dancer. MGR in Naan Yen Piranthen, Sivaji Ganesan in Savaale Samaali, and Jayalalitha in Anbu Thangai are among the actors for whom he choreographed.
4. Humanitarian efforts
Haasan was the very first Tamil actor to turn his fan clubs into charities. For his contributions in 2004, he received the first Abraham Kovoor National Prize.
5. Highest paid actor
From 1988 to 1998, Kamal Haasan was the highest-paid star. In 1994, he also made history as the first Indian actor to be paid INR 1 crore for a single film. The legendary actors Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan previously held the record.
6. Six different languages movies
Kamal Haasan is the only Indian actor who has appeared in films in six languages: Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Bengali.
7. Highest number of Films submitted to Oscar
With seven films nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category, Kamal Haasan has the most nominations.
8. Ten different roles in a single film
Kamal stunned everybody when he played ten different roles in a single movie in Dashavatar (2008), which was a record at the time.
If there’s one Indian actor who can be considered a one-man industry, it’s Kamal Haasan, who has mostly taken the path less travelled. 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.