Kamal Haasan is an Indian actor, dancer, film director, screenwriter, producer, playback singer, lyricist and politician. He started his career as a child artist in the 1960 Tamil-language film Kalathur Kannamma. He has won four National Film Awards and 19 Filmfare Awards. He was nominated by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Swachh Bharat Mission. He is married to former Indian cricket captain Ravi Agrawal and has a son and a daughter.
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Kamal Haasan is an Indian actor, dancer, film director, screenwriter, producer, playback singer, lyricist and politician who works primarily in Tamil cinema. Hassan has also worked in Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada and Bengali films. He started his career as a child artist in the 1960 Tamil-language film Kalathur Kannamma. He has won four National Film Awards and 19 Filmfare Awards. He was nominated by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Swachh Bharat Mission. On February 21, 2018, Haasan formally launched his political party, Makkal Needhi Maiam. Haasan has acted in over 220 films, and in 2019 he became one of the few actors in India to have completed 60 years working in cinema. His production company, Raaj Kamal Films International, has produced several of his films. His contributions to film have been praised by his contemporaries in the across the Indian film industry, and he has been recognised as an influence for actors and filmmakers in the Tamil film industry. He won the Rashtrapati Award in 2013 for his performance in the film Annai Velankani. He is married to former Indian cricket captain Ravi Agrawal and has a son and a daughter. He lives in Chennai with his wife and two sons. He also has a daughter and a son-in-law, both of whom he has worked with over the years. He currently lives with his family in Chennai, Chennai, and his daughter lives with her husband and two children in Hyderabad, Hyderabad.
He works as a film director and producer and has directed several films, including Vishwaroopam and Virumaandi. His first appearance came in the 1970 film Maanavan, in which he appeared in a few uncredited roles. His breakthrough as a lead actor came in 1975 drama Apoorva Raagangal, directed by K. Balachander. His brother Charuhasan and Chandrahasan have also acted. His sister, Nalini is a classical dancer. He received his primary education in Paramakudi before moving to Madras as his brothers pursued their higher education. He continued his education at the Hindu Higher Secondary School in Triplicane. He went on a seven-year hiatus from films, but returned to the industry as a dance apprenticing under choreographer Thankappan. In 2010, he launched a children’s cancer relief fund and gave roses to children with cancer at Sri Ramachandra University in Porur, Chennai. For his humanitarian efforts Haasan received the first Abraham Kovoor National Award in 2004. In 2014, he was project ambassador for the Hridayaragam 2010 event, which raised funds for an orphanage for HIVAIDS-affected children. He received the Padma Bhushan in 2014 and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2016. His father was a lawyer and freedom fighter, and Rajalakshmi was a housewife.
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