Vishwaroopam was the highest-grossing Tamil film of 2013.[63].

Ultimately, Mannar and Deepa (who now knows that Mannar is Madhan's actual spy) stage a plan with the help of Kunju to deceive Madhan for the final break-up with Ambu. On 17 September 2020 , director Lokesh Kanakaraj announced through his Twitter handle that his next venture will have Kamal Haasan in lead role with Anirudh handling the music and movie has been temporarily named #kamal232 . However, overall, the film is entertaining and enjoyable". Despite the film's relatively poor box-office performance, his portrayal of a blind session violinist earned him a Filmfare Award. It began as a collaboration with writer Crazy Mohan for future comedy films. In 1978, at age 24, Haasan married dancer Vani Ganapathy. [33], After Indian, Haasan played a woman in the comedy Avvai Shanmughi, which was inspired by Mrs. Cupid) (spelt onscreen as Maanmathaun) is 2004 Indian Tamil-language romantic thriller film directed and written by A. J. Murugan with dialogues Balakumaran. His time with the theatre company shaped Haasan's craft and kindled his interest in makeup. By the end of the 1980s Haasan was successful in the Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi film industries, with Filmfare Awards in each industry and two national awards.[26][29][30]. [55][56], Haasan collaborated for the fifth time with Ravikumar in Manmadan Ambu, for which he also wrote the screenplay. The new experiments shows his maturity and his intention for being innovative. [32] The controversial song Kamal Kavidhai, had come under criticism due to lines about a woman's desire and for references to Hindu deities like Aranganathar and Sri Varalakshmi. Dasavathaaram, written by Haasan and director K. S. Ravikumar, is one of the first modern science-fiction films made in India. His production company, Raaj Kamal Films International, has produced several of his films. [11] Haasan was initially named as Parthasarthy. In the process, he introduces himself as a manager of a security company to Ambu, Deepa, and Deepa's children, and becomes close to the group. Madhan now suspects that Ambu may be having a relationship with her colleagues in the film industry. [19] In Tamil cinema, he had his breakthrough as a lead actor in Balachander's Apoorva Raagangal. The film ends as everyone returns to India on the cruise, with Madhan and Deepa starting a relationship. 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. He was project ambassador for the Hridayaragam 2010 event, which raised funds for an orphanage for HIV/AIDS-affected children. After significant pre-production which included rehearsals of the entire script before filming, the film was extensively shot across Europe and on a cruise ship, whilst scenes were also canned across Chennai and Kodaikanal. [51] In Canada, Dasavathaaram was the first Tamil film distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. [24] After a year of starring in commercial films, Haasan won the first of three National Awards for Best Actor for his portrayal of a schoolteacher caring for an amnesia patient in Balu Mahendra's Moondram Pirai, later reprising his role in the Hindi version, Sadma. At the same time, Rajan recovers from cancer.

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He played a rebellious young man who falls in love with an older woman. [31] Haasan won successive Best Actor awards for his portrayal of deranged, obsessive protagonists in Gunaa and Thevar Magan (which was remade in Hindi as 1997's Virasat). 'The Week', in its 13 September 1992 edition, reported that Chiranjeevi charged Rs.1.25 crores per a film and which is the highest ever remuneration for any Indian hero then. He won his first National Film Award for his portrayal of a guileless school teacher who cares for a woman who suffers from retrograde amnesia in Moondram Pirai (1983). [116], Haasan publishes the magazine Mayyam, by the Kamal Haasan Welfare Association (Narpani Iyakkam).His views on cinema, child and drug abuse, and the Kashmir conflict have been published as Thedi Theerpom Va (Come, Let's Find and Solve) by his fan club. [80][81] The show soon went onto become one of the most watched television series in Tamil Nadu and gained positive reviews among audience.

[85] Haasan continued his education in Sir M.Ct. [6] He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at 15th Mumbai International Film Festival in 2013.[7]. Haasan made his debut in Hindi cinema with Ek Duuje Ke Liye (1981), the remake of his own acted Telugu-language film Maro Charitra directed by K. Balachander (which earned him his first Filmfare Hindi-language nomination). Upon release, the film opened to mixed reviews and had an average run at the box office. He was noted for his performances in Mani Ratnam's Nayakan (1987) and S. Shankar's vigilante film Indian (1996) and also won second and third National film award respectively. – Times Of India, "Wide acclaim for Indian films in US festival", "Fear becomes him! So slow, in fact, that it feels like 2 movies – pre-interval being a drama and post-interval a comedy."

While getting closer to Ambu, Mannar says to Madhan that Ambu is good, but the other guy is bad. Haasan had a relationship with actress Gautami, Haasan's frequent co-star during the late 1980s and early 1990s, from 2005 till 2016. The following year, he wrote and starred in the comedy Mumbai Xpress. [61][62] Although the film was cleared by Central Board of Film Certification of India, district collectors in the state of Tamil Nadu gave orders to the theatre owners to not show Vishwaroopam, citing law and order problems, however the film released in other states with greater Muslim populations than in Tamil Nadu. [20] Indiaglitz said, "Manmadhan Ambu may not be a Panchatanthiram or Dasavathaaram, but a perfect holiday entertainer with Kamal stamp all over it. Silambarasan played dual roles for the first time in his career while Jyothika , Sindhu Tolani , Santhanam , Atul Kulkarni , and Goundamani played supporting roles. [83] During 2013 his daughter Shruti Hassan appeared on an episode of Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi, where "phone a friend" option is availed to Shruti and when she called her father Kamal, he stated that his parents named him Parthasarathy before he was called as Kamal Haasan and his mother always used to call him by that name.