The three-day programme starting from July 9 at Sri Fort amphitheater would be inaugurated by Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni and Kamal Haasan would be the bedfellow of honour.
The attendant would awning assorted hit films of Kamal like 'Hey Ram' followed by 'Anbe Sivam', 'Virumaandi,' 'Thevar Magan', 'Sagara Sangamam,' 'Dasavatharam' and 'Nayagan.'
It’s attenuate in the history of motion account to appointment an amateur who started at 4 and is still activity able at 55. Ulaganayagan, as he is affectionately alleged fabricated his admission with his aboriginal blur as a adolescent artisan in ‘Kalathoor Kannamma’ which was appear on August 12th, 1959.
Born on 7 November 1954, Kamal Haasan began his career in movies as a adolescent artist. Thereafter, he went to assignment in some 200 Indian movies and has been accustomed with the National Blur Award four times. Throughout his life, he has additionally been an ardent theatre artist. In adjustment to accentuate his addition to Indian cinema, the Government of India conferred aloft him the country's fourth accomplished noncombatant honor, the Padma Shri in the year 1990. He has been adored with 4 National Awards, 19 Filmfare Awards, 5 Tamil Nadu State Blur Awards and 3 Nandi Awards for his assignment on these films, besides actuality actual at assorted all-embracing blur festivals.
Films like Moondram Pirai, Nayagan, Yaetta, Sigappu Rojakal, Thevar Magan, Sagara Sangamam, Devar Magan, Sagar, Sadma and Virumandi; all present abounding affidavit of Haasan’s immense addition to the accurate acreage as not alone a classical blur personality able of converting millions of blur admirers into zealots who instate temples in his name, and evoking admirers concern that makes his admirers delay for hours in queues to shop for tickets for his film; but additionally as a blur artist, who through his accurate alertness for anniversary role, and his charge to the account of accurate authenticity; has for years played characters that fabricated airy the actual brilliant that he was off-screen
His captivation with the angel of adroitness is not alone relegated to acting, but he packs it with actuality a choreographer, a director, a artist and a accompanist to boot. The achievement of a Don that he allowable in his 1987 blur Nayagan directed by Mani Ratnam fabricated alike Time annual to accede his acting prowess.
In one of the scenes from his blur alleged The Colour of Poverty is Red, (Varumaiyin Niram Sigappu) area he plays an unemployed adolescence who fails to access at a accommodation amid his celebrity and the demands fabricated of him by the absolute world, Kamal Haasan’s character, in adjustment to allay his atrocious hunger, picks up an angel from the average of black baptize and consumes it.
To bless 50 years of this abundant artist’s admired contributions to Indian Cinema, not aloof to his aesthetic endeavour but to the beyond amusing and cultural bolt of our country, Directorate of Blur Festivals is acclimation a 3 day “Retrospective of Kamal Haasan’s Films” from 2nd- 4th July, 2010 at Sirifort Amphitheater II.
