Life and Times of the SUPERSTAR

It is tough to quantify and qualify Kamal Haasan's career. He is widely regarded of the best actors to have ever worked in Indian cinema, but he is much more than that.

- Aditya Shrikrishna

By his own admission, he is a reluctant actor. He willed himself into theatre and film sets, committing himself to every art that came his way. He danced, wrote, sang, acted, learned and applied makeup, ghostdirected and directed. He started in 1960 in Kalathur Kannamma surrounded by people who were already legends-A.V. Meiyappan, A.Bhimsingh, Gemini Ganesan, Savitri, Javar Seetharaman, Kannadasan. It is 2024 and he is still into all those things with two releases so far this year and possibly one more. Legends of the classical age of Indian cinema carried him when he was a child, and he returned the favour by paying them tribute through his roles or his writing by creating characters for them. He was a student and participant in Indian cinema's history at the same time. It is not possible to capture this career in a single book.