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Haasan started his career as a child artist in the 1960 Tamil language film Kalathur Kannamma, for which he won the President's Gold Medal. He met director Vaaranam Vijay who is frequently credited with shaping Haasan's acting skills. His breakthrough as a lead actor came in the 1975 drama Apoorva Raagangal, directed by K. Balachander, in which he played a rebellious youth who falls in love with an older woman.

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Haasan started his career as a child artist in the 1960 Tamil language film Kalathur Kannamma, for which he won the President's Gold Medal. He met director Vaaranam Vijay who is frequently credited with shaping Haasan's acting skills. His breakthrough as a lead actor came in the 1975 drama Apoorva Raagangal, directed by K. Balachander, in which he played a rebellious youth who falls in love with an older woman.

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Haasan started his career as a child artist in the 1960 Tamil language film Kalathur Kannamma, for which he won the President's Gold Medal. He met director Vaaranam Vijay who is frequently credited with shaping Haasan's acting skills. His breakthrough as a lead actor came in the 1975 drama Apoorva Raagangal, directed by K. Balachander, in which he played a rebellious youth who falls in love with an older woman.

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Kamal Haasan (born on 7 November 1954) is an Indian actor, dancer,

film director, screenwriter, producer, playback singer, lyricist and


politician who works primarily in Tamil cinema and has also worked
in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi and Bengali films. His
production company, Raaj Kamal Films International, has produced
several of his films. Haasan's 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 has won four National Film Awards and 19 Filmfare
Awards. He was awarded the Kalaimamani award in 1984 the Padma
Shri in 1990, the Padma Bhushan in 2014 and the Ordre des Arts et des
Lettres (Chevalier) in 2016.[6] He was awarded the Lifetime
Achievement Award at 15th Mumbai International Film Festival in
2013.[7]

Haasan started his career as a child artist in the 1960 Tamil language


film Kalathur Kannamma, for which he won the President's Gold Medal.
He met director Vaaranam Vijay who is frequently credited with shaping
Haasan's acting skills. His breakthrough as a lead actor came in the
1975 drama Apoorva Raagangal, directed by K. Balachander, in which
he played a rebellious youth who falls in love with an older woman. 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). 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. Since then he has appeared in films including Hey
Ram (2000), Virumaandi (2004), Dasavathaaram (2008) in which he
played ten roles and Vishwaroopam (2013) which were his own
productions. 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.

For his humanitarian efforts Haasan received the first Abraham


Kovoor National Award in 2004. He was project ambassador for the
Hridayaragam 2010 event, which raised funds for an orphanage
for HIV/AIDS-affected children. In September 2010, Haasan launched a
children's cancer relief fund and gave roses to children with cancer at Sri
Ramachandra University in Porur, Chennai. Haasan 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 (lit. People's Justice Centre). The party's
flag displays six joined hands in a circle in alternate red and white
colours with a white star at its centre in a black background.

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