141-440: Peranmai ( transl. Valour ) is a 2009 Indian Tamil -language action adventure film , co-written and directed by S. P. Jananathan for his venture and produced by Ayngaran International Films, it stars Jayam Ravi and Roland Kickinger , with Dhansika , Saranya Nag , Varsha Ashwathi , Liyasree and Vasundhara Kashyap in the female leads, while Urvashi , Vadivelu , and Ponvannan play supporting roles. The music
282-455: A Tamira Samghatta ( Tamil confederacy ) The Samavayanga Sutra dated to the 3rd century BCE contains a reference to a Tamil script named 'Damili'. Southworth suggests that the name comes from tam-miḻ > tam-iḻ "self-speak", or "our own speech". Kamil Zvelebil suggests an etymology of tam-iḻ , with tam meaning "self" or "one's self", and " -iḻ " having the connotation of "unfolding sound". Alternatively, he suggests
423-468: A lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most Tamil affixes are suffixes . Tamil suffixes can be derivational suffixes, which either change the part of speech of the word or its meaning, or inflectional suffixes, which mark categories such as person , number , mood , tense , etc. There is no absolute limit on the length and extent of agglutination , which can lead to long words with many suffixes, which would require several words or
564-480: A , as with other Indic scripts . This inherent vowel is removed by adding a tittle called a puḷḷi , to the consonantal sign. For example, ன is ṉa (with the inherent a ) and ன் is ṉ (without a vowel). Many Indic scripts have a similar sign, generically called virama , but the Tamil script is somewhat different in that it nearly always uses a visible puḷḷi to indicate a 'dead consonant' (a consonant without
705-740: A 2001 survey, there were 1,863 newspapers published in Tamil, of which 353 were dailies. Tamil is the primary language of the majority of the people residing in Tamil Nadu , Puducherry , (in India) and in the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka . The language is spoken among small minority groups in other states of India which include Karnataka , Telangana , Andhra Pradesh , Kerala , Maharashtra , Gujarat , Delhi , Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India and in certain regions of Sri Lanka such as Colombo and
846-570: A classical language by the Indian government and holds official status in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Singapore. The earliest extant Tamil literary works and their commentaries celebrate the Pandiyan Kings for the organization of long-termed Tamil Sangams , which researched, developed and made amendments in Tamil language. Even though the name of the language which was developed by these Tamil Sangams
987-512: A collaboration with writer Crazy Mohan for future comedy films. 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 ). He was credited with the story for the latter. Haasan won his third National Film Award this time as a producer for Thevar Magan . The film was India's submission for
1128-409: A derivation of tamiḻ < tam-iḻ < * tav-iḻ < * tak-iḻ , meaning in origin "the proper process (of speaking)". However, this is deemed unlikely by Southworth due to the contemporary use of the compound 'centamiḻ', which means refined speech in the earliest literature. The Tamil Lexicon of University of Madras defines the word "Tamil" as "sweetness". S. V. Subramanian suggests
1269-748: A dwarf, then Chanakyan , an original Malayalam film, later Vettri Vizhaa (where he played an amnesiac) and finally Haasan played two parts in Indrudu Chandrudu , winning the Filmfare Best Actor and won him his third Nandi Award for Best Actor for his performance. 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. In 1990, Michael Madana Kama Rajan saw Haasan build on Apoorva Sagodharargal by playing quadruplets. It began as
1410-760: A film about capital punishment which won the Best Asian Film Award at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival . He also appeared in Anbe Sivam with Madhavan . Priyadarshan , its original director, left and Sundar C completed the film. Anbe Sivam tells the story of Nallasivam, portrayed by Haasan as a communist. His performance was praised by critics, with The Hindu saying that he "has once again done Tamil cinema proud". In 2004 Haasan appeared in Vasool Raja MBBS ,
1551-1207: A guileless youth who falls in love with a woman who suffers from retrograde amnesia in Moondram Pirai (1982), an ordinary slum dweller who rises to a position of a highly respected don in Nayakan (1987) and dual roles in Indian (1996). He further gained immense acclaim for his performances in Sagara Sangamam (1983), Sadma (1983), Saagar (1985), Swathi Muthyam (1986), Pushpaka Vimana (1987), Sathyaa (1988), Apoorva Sagodharargal (1989), Michael Madana Kama Rajan (1990), Gunaa (1991), Thevar Magan (1992), Mahanadhi (1994), Kuruthipunal (1995), Chachi 420 (1997), Hey Ram (2000), Aalavandhan (2001), Anbe Sivam (2003), Virumaandi (2004), Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (2006), Dasavathaaram (2008), Vishwaroopam (2013), Vikram (2022), and Kalki 2898 AD (2024). His production company, Raaj Kamal Films International , has produced several of his films. For his philanthropic efforts, Haasan received
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#17329086021011692-402: A low key especially in the reliability segment". Times of India wrote "Likewise, if you are one of those passionate followers of Tamil cinema, and get all twitchy and charged up over the sameness in formula-driven action films and have been demanding at least a fresh storyline as a minimum requirement to escape a sense of deja vu, you can relax. Peraanmai, which attempts to offer that difference,
1833-507: A man who hires a detective to find out if his fiancée is cheating on him. The film was released in December 2010 to mixed reviews, with Behindwoods calling it "an entertainer, but in parts" and Sify saying it "lacks the punch to captivate the audiences". Haasan's next film after Manmadhan Ambu was 2013's Vishwaroopam , released in Hindi as Vishwaroop . It won two National Film Awards (Best Production Design and Best Choreography) at
1974-591: A number of apparent Tamil loanwords in Biblical Hebrew dating to before 500 BCE, the oldest attestation of the language. Old Tamil is the period of the Tamil language spanning the 3rd century BCE to the 8th century CE. The earliest records in Old Tamil are short inscriptions from 300 BCE to 700 CE. These inscriptions are written in a variant of the Brahmi script called Tamil-Brahmi . The earliest long text in Old Tamil
2115-418: A number of other contemporary performers. In 2021, Haasan featured in a song 'Shades of Blue: A Musical Tribute to Venmurasu ' composed by Rajan Somasundaram and released by Director Mani Ratnam in honor of Venmurasu , the longest novel ever written in any language. Earlier, he has spoken in appreciation of Venmurasu and writer Jeyamohan on Bigg Boss during his book recommendations. In 2022, Haasan
2256-512: A number of sound changes, in particular, a tendency to lower high vowels in initial and medial positions, and the disappearance of vowels between plosives and between a plosive and rhotic. Contact with European languages affected written and spoken Tamil. Changes in written Tamil include the use of European-style punctuation and the use of consonant clusters that were not permitted in Middle Tamil. The syntax of written Tamil has also changed, with
2397-468: A number of well-known actors and technicians had been signed, and it was launched at a public ceremony by Queen Elizabeth during her 1997 visit to India. Although the film failed to materialise due to budget constraints, Haasan expressed an interest in reviving the project. In 1998, he appeared in Singeetam Srinivasa Rao 's romantic comedy, Kaathala Kaathala opposite Prabhu Deva . The film
2538-972: A producer. Despite the film's relatively poor box-office performance, his portrayal of a blind session violinist earned him a Filmfare Award . 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 . During this period he focused on Bollywood remakes of his Tamil films, including Yeh To Kamaal Ho Gaya and Zara Si Zindagi . In 1983 he appeared in Sagara Sangamam , directed by K. Viswanath . His portrayal of an alcoholic classical dancer won him his first Nandi Award for Best Actor and his second Filmfare Best Telugu Actor Award . After 1984's multistarrer Raaj Tilak , Haasan appeared in Saagar (released 1985), winning
2679-523: A relative parallel to Tamil, even as Tamil has undergone some changes in modern ways of speaking. According to Hindu legend, Tamil or in personification form Tamil Thāi (Mother Tamil) was created by Lord Shiva . Murugan , revered as the Tamil God, along with sage Agastya , brought it to the people. Tamil, like other Dravidian languages, ultimately descends from the Proto-Dravidian language , which
2820-439: A remake of Bollywood 's Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. , with Sneha which was a box-office success. The following year, he wrote and starred in the comedy Mumbai Xpress . Released during Tamil New Year , it was a disappointment at the box office despite positive reviews. He appeared Kannada comedy film Rama Shama Bhama with Ramesh Aravind . In 2006 Haasan's long-delayed project, the stylish police story Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu ,
2961-669: A rocket launch by using a missile. The bonding of team and defeating the potential threat forms the crux of the story. The film opened to audiences worldwide on 16 October 2009, coinciding with Diwali . The core plot of the movie is loosely based on the 1972 Soviet movie The Dawns Here Are Quiet . Dhuruvan is a trainer at an NCC camp for women cadets. Being from a tribe, he is constantly degraded by his superior ranger Ganapathiram for his caste and rough persona, and framed for committing inappropriate acts by other cadets, but their warden Victoria sympathizes for him. He selects five girls – Jennifer, Ajitha, Thulasi, Susheela, and Kalpana – who are
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#17329086021013102-797: A sentence in English. To give an example, the word pōkamuṭiyātavarkaḷukkāka (போகமுடியாதவர்களுக்காக) means "for the sake of those who cannot go" and consists of the following morphemes : போக pōka go முடி muṭi accomplish Kamal Haasan Parthasarathy Srinivasan (born 7 November 1954), known professionally as Kamal Haasan , is an Indian actor , film director , film producer , screenwriter , choreographer , playback singer , lyricist , television presenter , social activist and politician who works in Tamil cinema . Besides Tamil films, he has also appeared in some Malayalam , Telugu , Hindi , Kannada and Bengali films. Considered as one of
3243-620: A small number speak the language. In Reunion where the Tamil language was forbidden to be learnt and used in public space by France it is now being relearnt by students and adults. Tamil is also spoken by migrants from Sri Lanka and India in Canada , the United States , the United Arab Emirates , the United Kingdom , South Africa , and Australia . Tamil is the official language of
3384-452: A spin-off film directed by himself titled Sabaash Naidu . The film was to be made in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi (as Shabhash Kundu ). The film's release date has been delayed owing to Haasan's entry into politics, and he pledged that he focus on working on Indian 2 instead. On 17 September 2020, Director Lokesh Kanagaraj announced through his Twitter handle that his next venture will have Kamal Haasan in lead role with Anirudh handling
3525-516: A stunning and realistic climax" and also praising Jayam Ravi's acting. Rediff.com wrote "A movie like this thrives on characters that knock against each other, and new emotions emerge but S P Jhananathan has thrust so many platitudes, morals and politics into it that it ends up being inadvertently hilarious. It's a script that looks good only on paper, filled with good intentions but hopelessly flawed". Behindwoods wrote "Peraanmai directed by S P Jananathan deals with an entirely different theme but strikes
3666-595: A subject of study in schools in the French overseas department of Réunion . In addition, with the creation in October 2004 of a legal status for classical languages by the Government of India and following a political campaign supported by several Tamil associations, Tamil became the first legally recognised Classical language of India. The recognition was announced by the contemporaneous President of India , Abdul Kalam , who
3807-452: A technician and joked: "Film makers like K. Balachander told me that I won't be able make much money by being a technician. So the end result is that the star Kamal funds the technician Kamal in pursuing his dreams". Haasan attended workshops for makeup technicians in the US for several years, and trained as a makeup artist under Michael Westmore . Haasan has written songs for his films. He wrote
3948-462: A thriller in which he played a psychopathic sexual killer. He appeared in the Malayalam film Eeta , for which he won his sixth Filmfare Award. He first played opposite to the Sridevi in the 1977 Malayalam movie Satyavan Savithri directed by P.G. Viswambharan , this combination was later on well-accepted and celebrated. In the 1979 Telugu film Sommokadidi Sokokadidi , Haasan played two parts. This
4089-458: A variety of dialects that are all collectively known as Brahmin Tamil . These dialects tend to have softer consonants (with consonant deletion also common). These dialects also tend to have many Sanskrit loanwords. Tamil in Sri Lanka incorporates loan words from Portuguese , Dutch , and English. In addition to its dialects, Tamil exhibits different forms: a classical literary style modelled on
4230-515: A village bumpkin, which won him a fourth consecutive Best Actor award. In 1977 Haasan starred in his first Kannada film, Kokila , the directorial debut of friend and mentor Balu Mahendra . That year he also appeared in a Bengali film, Kabita , a remake of the Tamil film Aval Oru Thodar Kathai . In 1978 Haasan made his Telugu film debut with a lead role in the cross-cultural romantic Maro Charitra , directed by Balachander. His fifth consecutive Filmfare Award resulted from Sigappu Rojakkal ,
4371-438: A vowel). In other Indic scripts, it is generally preferred to use a ligature or a half form to write a syllable or a cluster containing a dead consonant, although writing it with a visible virama is also possible. The Tamil script does not differentiate voiced and unvoiced plosives . Instead, plosives are articulated with voice depending on their position in a word, in accordance with the rules of Tamil phonology . In addition to
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4512-443: A war. On the other side, Ganapathiram finds the complaint letter, gathers his team, and goes to the forest checkpoint to find out what happened. The storekeeper tells him what happened and that condoms were purchased. Assuming that Dhuruvan kidnapped the girls, Ganapathiram and his officers destroy Dhuruvan's community and homes and exile them from the area while degrading their lower caste status. He eventually finds Ajitha's corpse in
4653-453: A year. Haasan is the first Tamil actor to convert his fan clubs into welfare organisations and is involved in social-service activities through the clubs under the name Kamal Narpani Iyakkam (Kamal Welfare Association). His fan clubs help organise blood- and eye-donation drives, and donate educational materials to students. Haasan received the first Abraham Kovoor National Award for his humanist activities and secular life in 2004. He
4794-412: Is Malayalam ; the two began diverging around the 9th century CE. Although many of the differences between Tamil and Malayalam demonstrate a pre-historic divergence of the western dialect, the process of separation into a distinct language, Malayalam, was not completed until sometime in the 13th or 14th century. Additionally Kannada is also relatively close to the Tamil language and shares the format of
4935-652: Is a classical dancer. He received his primary education in Paramakudi before moving to Madras (now Chennai ) as his brothers pursued their higher education. Haasan continued his education in Santhome , Madras, and was attracted towards film and fine arts as encouraged by his father. When a physician friend of his mother, visited A. V. Meiyappan (AVM) to treat his wife, she brought Haasan with her. Apparently impressed by his demeanor AVM's son, M. Saravanan , recommended him for their production Kalathur Kannamma . Haasan won
5076-486: Is a refreshing change". Tamil language Sri Lanka Singapore Malaysia Canada and United States Tamil ( தமிழ் , Tamiḻ , pronounced [t̪amiɻ] ) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia . It is one of the two longest-surviving classical languages in India , along with Sanskrit , attested since c. 300 BCE. The language belongs to
5217-653: Is also interested in Tamil literature . He formed the centrist party Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM), a regional political party in Tamil Nadu. He formally announced the party's formation on 21 February 2018 in Madurai. 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. Haasan began his political journey from late President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 's residence and his memorial at Rameswaram . His party contested in 37 seats in 2019 Indian general election and lost. Makkal Needhi Maiam's vote share in
5358-490: Is an atheist and has often questioned the existence of God and has highlighted the theme in his films like Anbe Sivam and Dasavathaaram . He was mistaken to be Muslim because of his Arabic-sounding name, most notably when he was denied preclearance to travel to the United States by Customs and Border Protection authorities at Toronto Pearson International Airport in 2002. In Sanskrit Kamal means "lotus", but it
5499-457: Is based on the dialect of Jaffna . After Tamil Brahmi fell out of use, Tamil was written using a script called vaṭṭeḻuttu amongst others such as Grantha and Pallava . The current Tamil script consists of 12 vowels , 18 consonants and one special character, the āytam . The vowels and consonants combine to form 216 compound characters, giving a total of 247 characters (12 + 18 + 1 + (12 × 18)). All consonants have an inherent vowel
5640-636: Is currently in production. In addition to acting, Haasan is noted for his involvement in other aspects of filmmaking. He has written many of his films, including Raja Paarvai , Apoorva Sagodharargal , Michael Madana Kama Rajan , Thevar Magan , Mahanadhi , Hey Ram , Aalavandhan , Anbe Sivam , Nala Damayanthi , Virumaandi , Dasavathaaram , Manmadan Ambu and Vishwaroopam . Haasan's production company ( Raaj Kamal Films International ) has produced several of his films, and he directed Chachi 420 , Hey Ram , Virumaandi and Vishwaroopam . He considered directing full-time if Hey Ram
5781-563: Is extensively described in the oldest known grammar book for Tamil, the Tolkāppiyam . Modern Tamil writing is largely based on the 13th-century grammar Naṉṉūl which restated and clarified the rules of the Tolkāppiyam , with some modifications. Traditional Tamil grammar consists of five parts, namely eḻuttu , col , poruḷ , yāppu , aṇi . Of these, the last two are mostly applied in poetry. Tamil words consist of
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5922-405: Is generally taken to have been completed by the 8th century, was characterised by a number of phonological and grammatical changes. In phonological terms, the most important shifts were the virtual disappearance of the aytam (ஃ), an old phoneme, the coalescence of the alveolar and dental nasals, and the transformation of the alveolar plosive into a rhotic . In grammar, the most important change
6063-409: Is generally used in formal writing and speech. For instance, it is the language of textbooks, of much of Tamil literature and of public speaking and debate. In recent times, however, koṭuntamiḻ has been making inroads into areas that have traditionally been considered the province of centamiḻ . Most contemporary cinema, theatre and popular entertainment on television and radio, for example,
6204-410: Is in koṭuntamiḻ , and many politicians use it to bring themselves closer to their audience. The increasing use of koṭuntamiḻ in modern times has led to the emergence of unofficial 'standard' spoken dialects. In India, the 'standard' koṭuntamiḻ , rather than on any one dialect, but has been significantly influenced by the dialects of Thanjavur and Madurai . In Sri Lanka, the standard
6345-501: Is mentioned as Tamil, the period when the name "Tamil" came to be applied to the language is unclear, as is the precise etymology of the name. The earliest attested use of the name is found in Tholkappiyam , which is dated as early as late 2nd century BCE. The Hathigumpha inscription , inscribed around a similar time period (150 BCE), by Kharavela , the Jain king of Kalinga , also refers to
6486-771: Is not always consistently applied. ISO 15919 is an international standard for the transliteration of Tamil and other Indic scripts into Latin characters. It uses diacritics to map the much larger set of Brahmic consonants and vowels to Latin script , and thus the alphabets of various languages, including English. Apart from the usual numerals, Tamil has numerals for 10, 100 and 1000. Symbols for day, month, year, debit, credit, as above, rupee, and numeral are present as well. Tamil also uses several historical fractional signs. /f/ , /z/ , /ʂ/ and /ɕ/ are only found in loanwords and may be considered marginal phonemes, though they are traditionally not seen as fully phonemic. Tamil has two diphthongs : /aɪ̯/ ஐ and /aʊ̯/ ஔ ,
6627-442: Is obstructing him. Dhuruvan's troops cleverly plant the land mines they acquired from one of the four men they killed. As per their expectation, one of the mercenaries steps on a land mine and dies. This scares them, and Anderson and another man Benny decide to go and hunt for the rest of the land mines, while the others would set up a camp there. That night, Dhuruvan and his troops break into their camp and seize one of two boxes that
6768-585: Is on the academic advisory council for ISFM (International school of Film+Media), and was the first Indian actor invited aboard an American ship as a special friend of the US. In April 2013 he received an award on behalf of Indian cinema from Chris Brown, executive vice-president for conventions and business operations of the National Association of Broadcasters, as part of the New York Festivals International Film & TV Awards. He
6909-508: Is one of 20 film celebrities recognised by Coca-Cola India with the launch of the 24th edition of the Limca Book of Records in 2013. Recently honoured with S. S. Vasan Award for his lifetime achievement in film industry by Ananda Vikatan . Mani Ratnam who directed Haasan in Nayakan , has said that there are many things he can do that no other actor can. Veteran actor Nagesh called Haasan
7050-409: Is the Tolkāppiyam , an early work on Tamil grammar and poetics, whose oldest layers could be as old as the late 2nd century BCE. Many literary works in Old Tamil have also survived. These include a corpus of 2,381 poems collectively known as Sangam literature . These poems are usually dated to between the 1st century BCE and 5th century CE. The evolution of Old Tamil into Middle Tamil , which
7191-652: Is the host to the Bigg Boss Ultimate (Season 1) which is to be launched on Disney+ Hotstar from 30 January 2022. He exited the show after the third week owing to scheduling conflicts with his film Vikram . Later, Silambarasan replaced him as the host from week 4 onwards. Then, Kamal Haasan returned as a host in Bigg Boss Tamil Season 6 . Next, Kamal Haasan is returning as a host in Bigg Boss Tamil Season 7 . Kamal Haasan launched his personal fashion line brand called KH House of Khaddar (KHHK). Haasan
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#17329086021017332-822: Is used as one of the languages of education in Malaysia , along with English, Malay and Mandarin. A large community of Pakistani Tamils speakers exists in Karachi , Pakistan , which includes Tamil-speaking Hindus as well as Christians and Muslims – including some Tamil-speaking Muslim refugees from Sri Lanka. There are about 100 Tamil Hindu families in Madrasi Para colony in Karachi. They speak impeccable Tamil along with Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi. Many in Réunion , Guyana , Fiji , Suriname , and Trinidad and Tobago have Tamil origins, but only
7473-491: The 60th National Film Awards . Muslim groups in Tamil Nadu demanded the ban of the film and claimed, that the film would hurt Muslim sentiments. 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 was released in other states with greater Muslim populations than in Tamil Nadu. A mutual agreement with
7614-640: The Academy Awards that year. A series of films followed: Singaravelan , Maharasan , Kalaignan , Mahanadhi , Nammavar , and Sathi Leelavathi Produced by Haasan, it featured himself alongside Kannada actor Ramesh Aravind and comedian Kovai Sarala . Haasan resumed his collaboration with K. Viswanath in the Telugu film, Subha Sankalpam , and starred in the police story Kuruthipunal (Tamil) simultaneously shot in Telugu as Drohi with Arjun Sarja and won Filmfare Best Actor . Haasan's success in
7755-939: The Filmfare Best Actor Award and nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award. The film was India's representative for the Best Foreign Language Oscar in 1985. He left Bollywood temporarily after Geraftaar and Dekha Pyar Tumhara to feature in Japanil Kalyanaraman (a sequel to his 1979 Kalyanaraman). In 1986, Haasan produced the technically brilliant Vikram and collaborated with Kodandarami Reddy for Oka Radha Iddaru Krishnulu and then K. Viswanath in Swathi Muthyam , playing an autistic person who tries to change society and won him his second Nandi Award for Best Actor . it
7896-587: The Kalaimamani Award from the government of Tamil Nadu in 1979. Other honours include Tamil Nadu State Film Awards , Nandi , Screen and Vijay Awards , including four awards for his performance in Dasavathaaram . In 2009 he was appointed chairman of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Media and Entertainment Business Conclave, organised by FICCI's entertainment division. He
8037-723: The Padma Shri in 1990, the Padma Bhushan in 2014 and the Order of Arts and Letters ( Chevalier ) in 2016. Haasan started his career as a child artist in the 1960 Tamil film Kalathur Kannamma for which he won a President's Gold Medal . After a sabbatical, he received his breakthrough with the 1975 drama Apoorva Raagangal , directed by K. Balachander , in which he played a rebellious youth who falls in love with an older woman which earned him his first Filmfare Award . He earned three National Film Awards for Best Actor for his portrayal of
8178-745: The Rashtrapati Award (President's gold medal) for his performance in Kalathur Kannamma at age six and starred in five more films as a child. He debuted in the Malayalam film industry with Kannum Karalum (1962). Upon his father's encouragement, he joined a repertory company (T. K. S. Nataka Sabha) headed by T. K. Shanmugam . In the meanwhile, he continued his education at the Hindu Higher Secondary School in Triplicane . His time with
8319-610: The Swachh Bharat Mission . On 21 February 2018, Haasan formally launched his political party, Makkal Needhi Maiam (lit. People's Justice Centre). Haasan was born on 7 November 1954, in a Tamil Iyengar Brahmin family, to D. Srinivasan, who was a lawyer and freedom fighter, and Rajalakshmi, who was a housewife. Haasan was initially named as Parthasarathy. His father later changed his name to Kamal Haasan. His brothers, Charuhasan (born 1931) and Chandrahasan (1937–2017), have also acted. Haasan's sister, Nalini (born 1946),
8460-584: The University of Madras , was one of the earliest dictionaries published in Indian languages. A strong strain of linguistic purism emerged in the early 20th century, culminating in the Pure Tamil Movement which called for removal of all Sanskritic elements from Tamil. It received some support from Dravidian parties . This led to the replacement of a significant number of Sanskrit loanwords by Tamil equivalents, though many others remain. According to
8601-651: The "Director in Focus" category at the Rotterdam Film Festival . In 2004, Virumaandi won the inaugural Best Asian film award at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan). In 2005, Sathyabama Deemed University awarded Haasan an honorary doctorate. He received the Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan Award for Excellence in Indian Cinema at the inaugural Vijay Awards in 2006. He received
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#17329086021018742-486: The 11th century, retain many features of the Vaishnava paribasai , a special form of Tamil developed in the 9th and 10th centuries that reflect Vaishnavite religious and spiritual values. Several castes have their own sociolects which most members of that caste traditionally used regardless of where they come from. It is often possible to identify a person's caste by their speech. For example, Tamil Brahmins tend to speak
8883-518: The 1975 movie Melnaattu Marumagal . After marriage, Vani worked as Haasan's costume designer for several movies. They divorced ten years later. Haasan and actress Sarika began living together in 1988, marrying after the birth of their first child, Shruti (born 1986). Shruti is a singer and a Tollywood - Kollywood actress. Their younger daughter, Akshara (born 1991), is an assistant director and actress. Sarika stopped acting soon after their marriage, Sarika worked as Haasan's costume designer for
9024-399: The 2019 Lok Sabha election was 3.72% (in the seats it contested). He unsuccessfully contested the 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election from Coimbatore South and lost to BJP Mahila Morcha President Vanathi Srinivasan by a narrow margin. Haasan received, in 1990, the Padma Shri , and, in 2014, the Padma Bhushan for his contributions to Indian cinema . At age six, he won
9165-452: The Hindi remake of Avvai Shanmughi , Chachi 420 , but after dissatisfaction with five days of shooting Haasan took over as director. In 1997 Haasan began directing an unfinished biopic of Dilip Kumar , Marudhanayagam ; a forty five minutes of film and a trailer was shot. Marudhanayagam was expected to be the biggest, most expensive film in Indian cinematic history and his magnum opus;
9306-405: The Indian forest. Dhuruvan guesses that they might are heading towards the direction of the Indian satellite research station in the forest to destroy their project of launching a rocket. He plans that if they want to sabotage the space mission, they would reach the banks of Toonghum Lake within five hours. He knows a better route to go to the safe place in the opposite bank within 4.5 hours. He tells
9447-476: The Indian state of Haryana , purportedly as a rebuff to Punjab , though there was no attested Tamil-speaking population in the state, and was later replaced by Punjabi , in 2010. In Malaysia, 543 primary education government schools are available fully in Tamil as the medium of instruction . The establishment of Tamil-medium schools has been in process in Myanmar to provide education completely in Tamil language by
9588-469: The Indian state of Tamil Nadu and one of the 22 languages under schedule 8 of the constitution of India . It is one of the official languages of the union territories of Puducherry and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands . Tamil is also one of the official languages of Singapore . Tamil is one of the official and national languages of Sri Lanka, along with Sinhala . It was once given nominal official status in
9729-632: The Living Legend Award in 2007 from FICCI . In 2010, the United Progressive Alliance government organised a retrospective of his films. Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said the actor was unique, since his films broke regional and language barriers. That year, the government of Kerala honoured him for 50 years in Indian cinema during statewide Onam celebrations in Thiruvananthapuram . Haasan received
9870-489: The Malayalam film, Kanyakumari , for which he won his first Filmfare Award . In Tamil cinema, he had his breakthrough as a lead actor in Balachander's Apoorva Raagangal . He played a rebellious young man who falls in love with an older woman. For this character portrayal, Haasan learned to play the mridangam . The role won him his second Filmfare Award. In 1976, Haasan appeared Balachander's Manmadha Leelai ; this
10011-520: The Muslims of Tamil Nadu was finally settled on 2 February 2013, when Haasan accepted to mute five scenes. Vishwaroopam was the 2nd highest-grossing Tamil film of 2013. In May 2014, he was appointed as the official Indian delegate to the 67th Cannes Film Festival . As of July 2014, he was working on three films: Uttama Villain , Vishwaroopam II , the sequel of Vishwaroopam and Papanasam . After 2 years of Vishwaroopam's release, Uttama Villain
10152-588: The President's gold medal for Best Child Actor for his debut film, Kalathur Kannamma . He is tied with Mammootty for the second most Best Actor National Film Awards with three. He won a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil for producing the 1992 Tamil film, Thevar Magan . He has a record 20 Filmfare Awards in five languages; after his last award, in 2000, he wrote to the organisation requesting no further awards. In 2003, his films Hey Ram , Pushpak , Nayakan and Kuruthipunal were showcased in
10293-673: The Tamils who settled there 200 years ago. Tamil language is available as a course in some local school boards and major universities in Canada and the month of January has been declared "Tamil Heritage Month" by the Parliament of Canada . Tamil enjoys a special status of protection under Article 6(b), Chapter 1 of the Constitution of South Africa and is taught as a subject in schools in KwaZulu-Natal province. Recently, it has been rolled out as
10434-442: The ancient language ( sankattamiḻ ), a modern literary and formal style ( centamiḻ ), and a modern colloquial form ( koṭuntamiḻ ). These styles shade into each other, forming a stylistic continuum. For example, it is possible to write centamiḻ with a vocabulary drawn from caṅkattamiḻ , or to use forms associated with one of the other variants while speaking koṭuntamiḻ . In modern times, centamiḻ
10575-912: The approximately 100,000 inscriptions found by the Archaeological Survey of India in India are in Tamil Nadu. Of them, most are in Tamil, with only about 5 percent in other languages. In 2004, a number of skeletons were found buried in earthenware urns dating from at least 696 BCE in Adichanallur . Some of these urns contained writing in Tamil Brahmi script, and some contained skeletons of Tamil origin. Between 2017 and 2018, 5,820 artifacts have been found in Keezhadi . These were sent to Beta Analytic in Miami , Florida , for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) dating. One sample containing Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions
10716-523: The best actor he had ever seen. His contributions to the film industry have been praised by his contemporaries, including Mammootty , Mohanlal , Prithviraj Sukumaran , Sridevi , Amitabh Bachchan , Venkatesh , Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan . Younger actors ( Suriya and Madhavan ) and filmmakers ( Bala , Ameer and Gautham Menon ) have been inspired by him. Hollywood filmmaker Barrie M. Osburne called Haasan's knowledge of literature, history and films "encyclopedic", and Ang Lee said he
10857-458: The counter missile from firing the space rocket. After an intense fight between the men, Dhuruvan manages to kill Anderson. Dhuruvan finally reaches the site of the rocket launch and helps the girls. He increases the time set of the missile by 25 seconds and changes it direction to the left. The Indian space rocket launches from the station and speeds up into the atmosphere. After 25 seconds, the counter missile diverted from its direction explodes into
10998-421: The desolate forest. The troop prides themselves for being successful on their mission but feel bad for Dhuruvan as his bravery will never be recognized due to his caste. In the end, Ganapathiram is awarded by the Indian government for "bravery", while Dhuruvan is back at the camp training another set of new NCC cadets. The film ends with the girls bidding a tearful goodbye, remembering Ajitha and Susheela. The film
11139-936: The dialect of Madurai , and iṅkaṭe in some northern dialects. Even now, in the Coimbatore area, it is common to hear " akkaṭṭa " meaning "that place". Although Tamil dialects do not differ significantly in their vocabulary, there are a few exceptions. The dialects spoken in Sri Lanka retain many words and grammatical forms that are not in everyday use in India, and use many other words slightly differently. Tamil dialects include Central Tamil dialect , Kongu Tamil , Madras Bashai , Madurai Tamil , Nellai Tamil , Kumari Tamil in India ; Batticaloa Tamil dialect , Jaffna Tamil dialect , Negombo Tamil dialect in Sri Lanka; and Malaysian Tamil in Malaysia. Sankethi dialect in Karnataka has been heavily influenced by Kannada . The dialect of
11280-634: The district of Palakkad in Kerala has many Malayalam loanwords, has been influenced by Malayalam's syntax, and has a distinctive Malayalam accent. Similarly, Tamil spoken in Kanyakumari District has more unique words and phonetic style than Tamil spoken at other parts of Tamil Nadu. The words and phonetics are so different that a person from Kanyakumari district is easily identifiable by their spoken Tamil. Hebbar and Mandyam dialects, spoken by groups of Tamil Vaishnavites who migrated to Karnataka in
11421-519: The film, Nag Ashwin , C. Aswani Dutt , and Swapna Dutt , he presented the panel of the film with Prabhas and Rana Daggubati . In October 2023, he gave a voice-over for his character in Leo , the third entry in the Lokiverse . After Indian 2 , he will be collaborating with H. Vinoth , for his 233rd film. He has also announced his reunion with Mani Ratnam for his 234th film, entitled Thug Life , which
11562-461: The film, writing its screenplay and lyrics; it was India's submission for the Academy Awards that year. Hey Ram was a box-office failure in India but was successful worldwide. Also in 2000, Haasan appeared in the comedy Thenali as a Sri Lankan Tamilian with PTSD who is under a psychiatrist's care. Thenali , starring Malayalam actor Jayaram , was a box-office success. Haasan's next film
11703-588: 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
11844-611: The first time in 2015. His daughter, Shruti has previously endorsed Pothys. In the past, Haasan has stated that should he ever act in commercials, the revenue earned from them would be donated to HIV affected children. 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. He
11985-415: The forest checkpost, the girls buy condoms and other inappropriate items and start the jeep, nonchanlantly driving it and running it down the slope of a hill. After losing the vehicle, the troop decides to stay in the forest for the night and go by an alternate route the next morning. Slowly, the girls start to bond with Dhuruvan. Once, Kalpana sees two foreigners with advanced armaments and in military gear in
12126-466: The formal ancient Tamil language. While there are some variations from the Tamil language, Kannada still preserves a lot from its roots. As part of the southern family of Indian languages and situated relatively close to the northern parts of India, Kannada also shares some Sanskrit words, similar to Malayalam. Many of the formerly used words in Tamil have been preserved with little change in Kannada. This shows
12267-482: The former he had a supporting role and worked as an assistant director. His first full-fledged role came in K. Balachander 's Tamil film Arangetram (1973). Balachander cast him as the antagonist in his Sollathaan Ninaikkiren (1973). Haasan went on to do supporting roles in films such as Gumasthavin Magal (1974), Aval Oru Thodar Kathai (1974) and Naan Avanillai . The same year, he played his first lead role in
12408-404: The girls to go back and inform Ganapathiram about them and bring extra forces, but the girls disagree and go with Dhuruvan. They reach the opposite bank, and to their shock, they find that they are actually 16 men. Dhuruvan analyzes that the men are out to sabotage the space mission and makes plans to defeat the operation of the foreign mercenaries. He sends Ajitha back to inform the officials, and
12549-453: The girls' help. Dhuruvan goes in search of Anderson, while the girls go to stop the missile launch. While Dhuruvan goes to find Anderson, Ganapathiram catches Dhuruvan and tries to shoot him. Dhuruvan tries to reveal the situation but fails. Ganapathiram tries to call his men through his walkie-talkie to kill Dhuruvan as he was running out of bullets. Dhuruvan throws the walkie-talkie, beats Ganapathiram, and escapes. When Ganapathiram goes to take
12690-468: The greatest and most respected actors in Indian cinema , Haasan is also known for introducing many new innovations to the Indian film industry. He has won numerous accolades, including four National Film Awards , nine Tamil Nadu State Film Awards , four Nandi Awards , one Rashtrapati Award , two Filmfare Awards and eighteen Filmfare Awards South . He was awarded the Kalaimamani Award in 1984,
12831-699: The hill country . Tamil or dialects of it were used widely in the state of Kerala as the major language of administration, literature and common usage until the 12th century CE. Tamil was also used widely in inscriptions found in southern Andhra Pradesh districts of Chittoor and Nellore until the 12th century CE. Tamil was used for inscriptions from the 10th through 14th centuries in southern Karnataka districts such as Kolar , Mysore , Mandya and Bengaluru . There are currently sizeable Tamil-speaking populations descended from colonial-era migrants in Malaysia , Singapore , Philippines , Mauritius , South Africa , Indonesia, Thailand, Burma , and Vietnam . Tamil
12972-432: The introduction of new aspectual auxiliaries and more complex sentence structures, and with the emergence of a more rigid word order that resembles the syntactic argument structure of English. In 1578, Portuguese Christian missionaries published a Tamil prayer book in old Tamil script named Thambiran Vanakkam , thus making Tamil the first Indian language to be printed and published. The Tamil Lexicon , published by
13113-456: The latter of which is restricted to a few lexical items. Tamil employs agglutinative grammar, where suffixes are used to mark noun class , number , and case , verb tense and other grammatical categories. Tamil's standard metalinguistic terminology and scholarly vocabulary is itself Tamil, as opposed to the Sanskrit that is standard for most Indo-Aryan languages . Much of Tamil grammar
13254-406: The latter was followed by his third National Film Award for Best Actor for Indian . Haasan also won Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor and Filmfare Best Actor for Indian . The film was India's submission for the Academy Awards . After Indian , Haasan played a woman in the comedy Avvai Shanmughi , which was inspired by Mrs. Doubtfire . He chose Shantanu Sheorey to direct
13395-436: The lead female roles. A song featuring fight sequence was shot at Thalaikonam. The set for Jayam Ravi's village was built at dense forest of Ambasamuthiram. All lyrics were written by Vairamuthu . The audio was released at Sathyam Cinemas on 21 September 2009. Pavithra Srinivasan of Rediff.com wrote "In most of the songs, Vidhyasagar has slipped into a familiar template, so it is worth just one listen". Behindwoods wrote "On
13536-673: The lyrics for a single in Hey Ram , songs in Virumaandi and Unnaipol Oruvan and the album for Manmadhan Ambu . Haasan's musical work has been well received by his peers in Tamil film. He is also a playback singer, singing in Tamil , Hindi , Telugu , Malayalam and English. Haasan also wrote the lyrics for a song about the COVID-19 pandemic in India and released its music video, "Arivum Anbum". The album, composed by Ghibran and directed by Haasan, featured Anirudh Ravichander, Yuvan Shankar Raja and
13677-571: The meaning "sweet sound", from tam – "sweet" and il – "sound". Tamil belongs to the southern branch of the Dravidian languages , a family of around 26 languages native to the Indian subcontinent . It is also classified as being part of a Tamil language family that, alongside Tamil proper, includes the languages of about 35 ethno-linguistic groups such as the Irula and Yerukula languages (see SIL Ethnologue ). The closest major relative of Tamil
13818-426: The mercenaries carry around with them, expecting it to contain information about the air missile after killing two of them. By the next morning, Anderson and Benny find two men dead and one box lost, and they get enraged at Dhuruvan and his troops. Anderson tells Benny to take three men to the site of the rocket launch and launch the missile. He takes the rest of his men to destroy Dhuruvan and the girls, which turns into
13959-438: The missile is while they go to help Anderson in the war. After finding their secret signal, Anderson kills Susheela and hangs her from a tree. The girls and Dhuruvan get heartbroken at her death and bury her with an NCC tribute. The girls kill Thompson and the two other men except Anderson, Benny, and Collin. Benny finds Dhuruvan and the girls, but Dhruvan trashes him and makes him lure Anderson, after which Dhuruvan kills Benny with
14100-432: The most insolent and disobedient girls in the troop for an expedition, intending to provide them with better training. As an attempt to make a practical joke, the girls post a complaint to Ganapathiram claiming that they did not feel safe with Dhuruvan and that he was responsible for whatever happens to them and keep it in the complaint box. Meanwhile, the expedition begins, and while Dhuruvan is caught up in some procedures at
14241-625: The movie Hey Ram and won the National Film Award for Best Costume Designer . In 2002, the couple filed for divorce, which became final in 2004. After their divorce, Sarika acted in movies and TV serials, winning the National Film Award for Best Actress for the 2005 film Parzania . From 2005 to 2016, Haasan was in a relationship with actress Gautami , his frequent co-star during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Early in his career, he co-starred in several films with Srividya . Haasan visited Srividya on her deathbed in 2006. Haasan
14382-401: The music with the movie titled as Vikram . It was Kamal Hassan's 232nd film as an actor. It also Stars Fahadh Faasil , Vijay Sethupathi in the leading roles along with Suriya makes a cameo appearance in the film. The film was released on 3 June 2022 and was a huge commercial success grossing ₹ 423.8 crore (US$ 51 million) and went on to become the 2nd highest-grossing Tamil film of
14523-531: The old aspect and time markers. The Nannūl remains the standard normative grammar for modern literary Tamil, which therefore continues to be based on Middle Tamil of the 13th century rather than on Modern Tamil. Colloquial spoken Tamil, in contrast, shows a number of changes. The negative conjugation of verbs, for example, has fallen out of use in Modern Tamil – instead, negation is expressed either morphologically or syntactically. Modern spoken Tamil also shows
14664-728: The prize money to Petral Thaan Pillaya , a nonprofit organization supporting cancer patients. Haasan was nominated by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Swachh Bharat campaign. He chose to clean the Madambakkam lake in Chennai with the Environmentalist Foundation of India 's Arun Krishnamurthy on 7 November 2014. Known for refusing any kind of brand endorsement, Haasan endorsed Pothys for
14805-402: The quicksand of the river and assumes that Dhuruvan raped and killed her. Ganapathiram frames Dhuruvan as a serial killer to the district collector, who, with Ganapathiram's permission, issues a shoot-at-sight order for Dhuruvan. Dhuruvan and the girls kill three of the mercenaries who were with Anderson. Benny tells Collin, one of the three men who came with him, to stay and guard the box, where
14946-419: The rest join him in the operation. She bids them goodbye, and Susheela tells her to tear the complaint letter as they wrote it without understanding Dhuruvan's value, before Ganapathiram sees it. However, on the way back, she gets trapped in quicksand and dies. Dhuruvan manages to lodge their troop ahead of mercenaries by his navigation acumen. Later, he deliberately obstructs the movement of mercenaries by cutting
15087-568: The role originally played by Naseeruddin Shah with Malayalam Superstar Mohanlal playing Anupam Kher 's role. It was released in Telugu as Eeenadu , with Venkatesh reprising the role played by Kher. Both versions were critically acclaimed and commercially successful. Haasan collaborated for the fifth time with Ravikumar in Manmadan Ambu , for which he also wrote the screenplay. The story concerns
15228-476: The song " Kallai Mattum " in Dasavathaaram . His oldest brother Charuhasan, like Haasan, is a National Film Award -winning actor who appeared in the Kannada film Tabarana Kathe . Charuhasan's daughter Suhasini is also a National Film Award winner married to director (and fellow award-winner) Mani Ratnam , who collaborated with Haasan on 1987's Nayakan . Chandrahasan has produced several of Haasan's films and
15369-497: The song, it became an instant hit. In August 2022, the filming for Indian 2 resumed, after a break of almost a year. It is now scheduled for release in summer 2024. In June 2023, he was cast in Kalki 2898 AD as the antagonist, marking his comeback in Telugu cinema. It was the first film in Indian cinema to attend San Diego Comic-Con , in July 2023. Along with the director and producers of
15510-539: The southern branch of the Dravidian language family and shares close ties with Malayalam and Kannada . Despite external influences, Tamil has retained a sense of linguistic purism, especially in formal and literary contexts. Tamil was the lingua franca for early maritime traders, with inscriptions found in places like Sri Lanka , Thailand , and Egypt . The language has a well-documented history with literary works like Sangam literature , consisting of over 2,000 poems. Tamil script evolved from Tamil Brahmi, and later,
15651-465: The standard characters, six characters taken from the Grantha script , which was used in the Tamil region to write Sanskrit, are sometimes used to represent sounds not native to Tamil, that is, words adopted from Sanskrit, Prakrit , and other languages. The traditional system prescribed by classical grammars for writing loan-words, which involves respelling them in accordance with Tamil phonology, remains, but
15792-522: The theatre company shaped Haasan's craft and kindled his interest in makeup. After a seven-year hiatus from films, Haasan returned to the industry as a dance assistant, apprenticing under choreographer Thankappan. During this time, Haasan made brief appearances in some films including a few uncredited roles. His first appearance came in the 1970 film Maanavan , in which he appeared in a dance sequence. He went on to assist Thankappan in films such as Annai Velankani (1971) and Kasi Yathirai (1973). In
15933-617: The trees to distract them. Anderson, the leader of the foreign mercenary group, decides to stay back until a clear notion from the opposite side. He deploys two of his men to investigate the situation. However, Dhuruvan successfully kills the two men. Anderson sends three men – Thompson, George and Edwin – to the opposite side to find out what happened to the two men; on the other hand, Dhuruvan's troops are eagerly waiting for them to collect their armaments. Dhuruvan kills George and Edwin, but Thompson manages to escape. When Anderson finds that he has lost four men of his group, he decides to kill whoever
16074-437: The vatteluttu script was used until the current script was standardized. The language has a distinct grammatical structure, with agglutinative morphology that allows for complex word formations. Tamil is predominantly spoken in Tamil Nadu , India, and the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka . It has significant speaking populations in Malaysia , Singapore , and among diaspora communities . Tamil has been recognized as
16215-410: The walkie-talkie, he realizes the situation when he sees the corpses of the mercenaries and realizes that Dhuruvan killed them. Ganapathiram reveals the situation to the collector and arrogantly tells him that he will produce the dead bodies in front of him. At the climax, Dhuruvan and Anderson fight face-to-face where Dhuruvan confronts and defeats Anderson, and the girls kill Collin and tries to disarm
16356-519: The whole, Peranmai has catchy music coupled with attractive lyrics. It's job well done by Vidyasagar". The satellite rights of the film were secured by Sun TV . The film was given a "U/A" certificate by the Indian Censor Board . The film was released on 16 October 2009 on the Diwali day alongside Jaganmohini . Sify wrote " Here is a definitive movie with a moral framework, and commitment along with
16497-517: The word for "here"— iṅku in Centamil (the classic variety)—has evolved into iṅkū in the Kongu dialect of Coimbatore , inga in the dialects of Thanjavur and Palakkad , and iṅkai in some dialects of Sri Lanka . Old Tamil's iṅkaṇ (where kaṇ means place) is the source of iṅkane in the dialect of Tirunelveli , Old Tamil iṅkiṭṭu is the source of iṅkuṭṭu in
16638-467: The year and third highest-grossing Tamil film of all time by beating the collections made by other Tamil films like Beast , Valimai , Etharkkum Thunindhavan and Don etc. The first single of Vikram titled " Pathala Pathala " received several million views from Kamal Haasan's fans and was the most viewed song on YouTube . The song also received praise for Kamal Haasan's dance performances which went viral. Despite facing controversies from
16779-577: Was 2001's Aalavandhan , in which he played two roles: For one he had his head shaved and gained ten kilograms. To play the other Army major in Aalavandhan , he went to the NDA for a crash course. The Hindi version was distributed by Shringar Films. Despite pre-release publicity, the film was a commercial failure. After a number of successful comedies including Pammal K. Sambandam and Panchatanthiram and guest appearances, Haasan directed Virumaandi ,
16920-659: Was India's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards in 1986. These Tollywood films found him a large audience in Andhra Pradesh, and many of his later Tamil films were dubbed into Telugu. Following Punnagai Mannan (in which he played two roles, including a satire of Charlie Chaplin as Chaplin Chellappa) and Kadhal Parisu , Haasan appeared in Mani Ratnam 's 1987 film Nayakan . He received his second Indian National Award for his performance; Nayakan
17061-526: Was a Tamilian himself, in a joint sitting of both houses of the Indian Parliament on 6 June 2004. The socio-linguistic situation of Tamil is characterised by diglossia : there are two separate registers varying by socioeconomic status , a high register and a low one. Tamil dialects are primarily differentiated from each other by the fact that they have undergone different phonological changes and sound shifts in evolving from Old Tamil. For example,
17202-412: Was a commercial success and was dubbed in Hindi as Mirch Masala , which was never released. After a two-year hiatus from Indian cinema , Haasan decided against reviving Marudhanayagam . He directed his second film, Hey Ram , a period drama, told in flashback, with a fact-based plot centering on the partition of India and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi . Haasan produced and choreographed
17343-534: Was a success. Directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon , the film is about a police officer sent to the US to investigate a series of medical murders. In 2008's Dasavathaaram , he played ten roles; the film was released in a number of languages (including Tamil, Telugu and Hindi) throughout India and overseas. Dasavathaaram , written by Haasan and director K. S. Ravikumar , is one of the first modern science-fiction films made in India. Starring Haasan and Asin Thottumkal, it
17484-462: Was also his first collaboration with director Singeetam Srinivasa Rao . He appeared in the musical Ninaithale Inikkum , a snake-horror film Neeya and Kalyanaraman . At the end of the 1970s he had six regional Best Actor Filmfare Awards , including four consecutive Best Tamil Actor Awards . Haasan's films during the 1980s included 1980 Tamil-language Varumayin Niram Sivappu , the film
17625-483: Was an executive with Raaj Kamal Films International , he died in March 2017. Chandrahasan's daughter Anu Hasan has had supporting roles in several films, including Suhasini's Indira . Haasan's sister, Nalini Raghu, is a dance teacher for whom he named an auditorium (Nalini Mahal). Her son, Gautham, played Haasan's grandson in "Hey Ram". In 1978, at age 24, Haasan married dancer Vani Ganapathy . She acted with Haasan in
17766-496: Was born into a Tamil Iyengar family in the town of Paramakudi , in the Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu , to criminal defence lawyer D. Srinivasan and Rajalakshmi, a housewife. During 2013 his daughter Shruti Haasan 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
17907-739: Was called as Kamal Haasan and his mother always used to call him by that name. In an interview with Karan Thapar , Haasan said his father was literate in Sanskrit. Haasan was the youngest of four children; his siblings are Charuhasan , Chandrahasan and Nalini (Raghu). His two older brothers followed their father's example and studied law. Haasan continued his education in Sir M.Ct. Muthiah Chettiar Boys Higher Secondary School and Hindu Higher Secondary School in Madras (now Chennai ). Haasan has alluded to his parents in some of his works, notably Unnaipol Oruvan and in
18048-586: Was claimed to be dated to around 580 BCE. John Guy states that Tamil was the lingua franca for early maritime traders from India. Tamil language inscriptions written in Brahmi script have been discovered in Sri Lanka and on trade goods in Thailand and Egypt. In November 2007, an excavation at Quseir-al-Qadim revealed Egyptian pottery dating back to first century BCE with ancient Tamil Brahmi inscriptions. There are
18189-419: Was composed by Vidyasagar . The film revolves around Dhuruvan ( Jayam Ravi ), a tribal forest guard who works for the welfare of his tribe and spreads awareness among them. While on a trekking with five college girls, who initially mistreated him due to his caste, they stumble on a group of foreign mercenaries led by Anderson ( Roland Kickinger ), who are planning to stop India's scientific project by destroying
18330-418: Was followed by Oru Oodhappu Kan Simittugiradhu (directed by S. P. Muthuraman ), which won him his third Filmfare Award. Haasan later appeared in the Balachander drama Moondru Mudichu . Avargal (1977) concerned the women's movement and, for this role, he learned ventriloquism . It was remade in Telugu as Idi Katha Kaadu (1979), with Haasan reprising his role. 16 Vayathinile , in which he played
18471-453: Was initially written by S. P. Jananathan with Kamal Haasan in mind, but his refusal prompted the director to sign Jayam Ravi . Jayam Ravi underwent physical training for the role of a forest officer in this film. He plays a one-man army in this film similar to that of Sylvester Stallone in Rambo . Actors Dhansika , Saranya Nag , Varsha Ashwathi , Liyasree and Vasundhara Kashyap played
18612-604: Was most likely spoken around the third millennium BCE, possibly in the region around the lower Godavari river basin. The material evidence suggests that the speakers of Proto-Dravidian were of the culture associated with the Neolithic complexes of South India, but it has also been related to the Harappan civilization . Scholars categorise the attested history of the language into three periods: Old Tamil (300 BCE–700 CE), Middle Tamil (700–1600) and Modern Tamil (1600–present). About of
18753-472: Was project ambassador for Hridayaragam 2010, 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. He has pledged his product-endorsement income to social causes. Haasan, along with his partner Gautami , won ₹ 5 million on Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi in March 2013 and donated
18894-405: Was released on 2 May 2015 with exceptional critical reviews and on 3 July 2015, Papanasam a Tamil remake of Malayalam film Drishyam was released with positive reviews and became a huge success followed by the bi-lingual Thoongaa Vanam and Cheekati Rajyam , both doing moderate business. He was set to reprise his role of Balram Naidu (a Telugu RAW Officer) from Dasavathaaram in
19035-706: Was rumoured that his name originated with a friend of his father (Yaakob Hassan, a Muslim freedom fighter who was imprisoned along with Kamal's father by the British). In a BBC interview with Karan Thapar , Haasan said that his last name derives from the Sanskrit word hasya , and although the Yaakob Hassan connection was publicised by the media it was only "a story". Haasan is considered left-leaning or independent . Although he initially abstained from politics, he entered regional politics in Tamil Nadu in 2018. He also said that his entering politics would result in his death within
19176-600: Was simultaneously shot in Telugu as Aakali Rajyam , in which he played an unemployed youth and earned him a first Filmfare Award in Telugu. In 1980 he appeared in the drama film Ullasa Paravaigal , Guru and Maria My Darling . 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). He made his 100th film appearance in 1981 in Raja Paarvai , debuting as
19317-600: Was submitted by India as its entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1987 Academy Awards , and is on the Time's All-Time 100 Movies list. Haasan appeared in his only silent film to date: Pushpaka Vimana (1987) a black comedy film, in which he played an unemployed youth and earned him a first Filmfare Award in Kannada. In 1988 he appeared Unnal Mudiyum Thambi , Malayalam film Daisy and Sathyaa which were his own productions. Haasan's all four films of 1989 were major success, Apoorva Sagodharargal , where he played
19458-571: Was successful, but changed his mind when the film failed at the box office. In his earlier career, he choreographed for MGR in Naan Yen Pirandhen , Sivaji Ganesan in Savaale Samaali and Jayalalithaa in Anbu Thangai In 2010 Haasan said he wanted to do more directing, since young actors wished to work for him. When he played supporting roles early in his career he wanted to become
19599-451: Was the emergence of the present tense. The present tense evolved out of the verb kil ( கில் ), meaning "to be possible" or "to befall". In Old Tamil, this verb was used as an aspect marker to indicate that an action was micro-durative, non-sustained or non-lasting, usually in combination with a time marker such as ṉ ( ன் ). In Middle Tamil, this usage evolved into a present tense marker – kiṉṟa ( கின்ற ) – which combined
19740-539: Was the highest-grossing Tamil film (as of 2008 ) and his performance was critically praised. In Canada, Dasavathaaram was the first Tamil film distributed by Walt Disney Pictures . After Dasavathaaram , Haasan directed a film tentatively titled Marmayogi , which stalled after a year of pre-production. He then produced and starred in Unnaipol Oruvan , a remake of the Bollywood film A Wednesday , where he reprised
19881-681: Was the lyricist and the playback singer for the song "Pathala Pathala" from Vikram. Haasan made his return on Star Vijay TV, hosting the first season of Bigg Boss Tamil in 2017. The show soon went onto become one of the most watched television series in Tamil Nadu and gained positive reviews among audience from season 1 onwards. Haasan also hosted the second season of Bigg Boss Tamil 2 which started its telecast on 17 June 2018, Bigg Boss Tamil 3 which started its telecast on 23 June 2019 and Bigg Boss Tamil 4 which started telecast on 4 October 2020. He hosted Bigg Boss Tamil 5 which started to telecast from 3 October 2021. Then, now he
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