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Some Lesser Known Facts About Kamal Haasan

• Haasan started his acting career when he was just 4 years old and won the President’s Gold medal for his performance in his debut film Kalathur Kannamma.
  

  Kamal Haasan as a child actor

• He actually wanted to be a film director.

• He is the only Indian actor to get more than 18 Filmfare Awards, behind him is A. R. Rahman with 14 Filmfare Awards.

• He has also won 3 National Awards for best actor.

• His film Pushpaka Vimana (The Love Chariot) was the first Indian colour silent film.

• He is the only Indian actor whose 7 films made an entry to Oscars.

• His film Nayaganis listed among the top 100 greatest films ever made by the TIME magazine.

• He is a trained Bharatanatyam dancer.

• His dream film Marudhanayagam that was started in 1997 and inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth 2, was finally released in 2015.
  

  Kamal Haasan with Queen Elizabeth 2

• His Welfare Association, Kamal Narpani Iyakkam organizes blood and eye donation campaign, and he even won the Abraham Kovoor National Award for his noble work in 2004.

• He is the only actor who has played 10 different roles, in the film Dasavathaaram.
  

  Kamal Haasan in Dasavathaaram

• Director Mani Ratnam is his relative, as his niece, Suhasini is married to him.

• He has acted in different languages like Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Bengali.

• Once, he was offered 100 crores (INR) to join a political party but he refused them.

• He is the only Indian actor who has given 5 hit films in a year (1982).

• He was the first Indian actor to get a salary of 1 crore (INR) in 1994.

• He has donated his body to Madras Medical college after his life.

• His film, Raja Paarvai was the first Indian film with visual effects and animation.

• Throughout his acting career, he has suffered more than 30 fractures while performing the stunts.

• After the success of his 2022 film Vikram, Kamal Hassan was on a gifting spree. After gifting bikes and a car to the direction team of the film, he gifted an expensive Rolex watch to Suriya, who essayed the role of Rolex in the film.
  

  Kamal Haasan gifted Suriya an expensive Rolex watch post Vikram’s success

• Kamal Haasan was awarded the Best Actor (Tamil) Award at the 11th South Indian International Movie Awards (SIIMA), held at the Dubai World Trade Centre, UAE, in September 2023 for the film ‘Vikram.’