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Kamal Haasan is a famous Indian actor, director, dancer, writer, lyricist, playback singer, choreographer, screenwriter, makeup artist and politician. Kamal Haasan primarily produces Tamil films. He has worked in films in Bengali, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, and Malayalam in addition to Tamil.

 His peers in the Indian film business have hailed Haasan's contributions to movies, and the Tamil film industry has acknowledged him as a major impact on actors and directors. He was a trailblazer in the Indian film industry, pioneering numerous cutting-edge technology and cosmetics.

Kamal Haasan’s birthday is 7 November 1954. Kamal Haasan’s birth place is Paramakudi, Tamil Nadu. Kamal Haasan’s age is 58 years, as of 2022. Kamal Haasan’s religion is Hinduism. Kamal Haasan’s zodiac sign is Scorpio. Kamal Haasan’s height is 1.7m or 5’7.

20 Filmfare Awards and 4 National Film Awards have each been given to Kamal Haasan. He requested in a letter to the Filmfare Association that they not grant him any more prizes and instead give them to up-and-coming actors after Hey Ram won the 2000 Filmfare, and they complied. For his first movie, Kalathur Kannamma, he received the President's Gold Medal National award for Best Child Actor at the age of six. In 1984, he received the Kalaimamani award. In 1990, he received the Padma Shri. In 2014, he received the Padma Bhushan. 

And in 2016, he received the Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. India nominated seven of his films for consideration as the Best Foreign Language Film, the most ever for an Indian actor. The 15th Mumbai International Film Festival presented him with the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. He has received more than 116 honours. Several of his films have been produced by Raaj Kamal Films International, his production firm.

The 1960 Tamil film Kalathur Kannamma, for which Kamal Haasan earned the President's Gold Medal, served as his debut feature. In the 1975 K. Balachander drama Apoorva Raagangal, in which he played a disobedient young man who falls in love with an older woman, he made his breakthrough as a leading man. He received his first National Film Award for his performance in Moondram Pirai as an unrepentant teacher who looks after a woman with retrograde amnesia (1982). 

Kamal Haasan received praise for his roles in the films Swathi Muthyam (1986) by K. Viswanath, Nayakan (1987) by Mani Ratnam, and Indian (1996) by S. Shankar, for which he also received the second and third National Film Awards, respectively. Since then, he has acted in several movies, including his own creations Hey Ram (2000), Virumaandi (2004), Dasavathaaram (2008), in which he portrayed 10 different parts, Vishwaroopam (2013), and Vikram (2022). Haasan has appeared in more than 230 movies, and in 2019 he joined a select group of Indian actors who have worked in the industry for 60 years.

In 2004, Kamal Haasan won the inaugural Abraham Kovoor National Award for his charitable work. He served as the event's project ambassador in 2010, helping to raise money for an orphanage for kids with HIV/AIDS. At Sri Ramachandra University in Porur, Chennai, in September 2010, Haasan established a children's cancer relief fund and donated roses to children with cancer. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposed Haasan for the Swachh Bharat Mission. 

Haasan formally introduced his political party, Makkal Needhi Maiam (people's justice center), on February 21, 2018. Additionally, he was granted a Golden Visa by the United Arab Emirates.

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