South India’s legendary film actor Kamal Haasan today completed 50 years as actor. His first film was Kalathur Kannamma in Tamil that was released on August 12, 1959. At the age of 6, he played a crucial role in this film as child artiste which also fetched him his first National Award. Later he went to win another three National Awards for best actor in films like Moondram Pirai (Vasantha Kokila), Nayakan (Nayakudu) and Indian (Bharateeydu). Kamal is the only actor in South India who won Filmfare awards for record 18 times. He also won Best Actor award (Nandi) from our Telugu films three times - Sagara Sangamam, Swathi Muthyam and Indrudu Chandrudu.
Kamal Haasan has acted in 162 films so far in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada languages. In Telugu alone, he did about 15 films and most of his Tamil movies dubbed into our language and some of them are simultaneously shot too.
Kamal currently is acting in Eenadu - a bilingual with Venky playing with Kamal in Telugu version, Mohan Lal sharing screen space with Kamal for Tamil version. The film is slated for release shortly.
