Overview
Kamal Haasan is an actor whose best-known screen work belongs to Tamil cinema. Audiences most often associate him with Nayakan, Indian, Anbe Sivam and Vikram. This page is a concise reference profile: it records the work he is widely known for and explains the industry context, while personal details are left blank until they can be backed by a reliable, citable source.
Profiles of this kind are deliberately shorter than our full biographies. Rather than padding the page with guesswork, we publish what is well established about Kamal Haasan's career and clearly mark everything else as not yet confirmed. The profile is expanded as our editors add verified dates, roles and sources.
Best-Known Work
The titles below are the projects most commonly linked with Kamal Haasan in public coverage of his career. They are listed as reference points, not as a complete filmography.
- Nayakan — a widely recognised credit in his body of work.
- Indian — one of the titles most closely associated with Kamal Haasan.
- Anbe Sivam — a widely recognised credit in his body of work.
- Vikram — one of the titles most closely associated with Kamal Haasan.
Exact release years, character names and formats for these titles will be added to the filmography table once each has been checked against an official source such as the producer, broadcaster, streaming platform or a recognised film database.
Industry Context
South Indian cinema covers several distinct industries — Telugu cinema centred on Hyderabad, Tamil cinema centred on Chennai, Malayalam cinema in Kerala and Kannada cinema in Karnataka. Each has its own stars, fan culture and storytelling traditions. Over the past decade films such as the Baahubali series, RRR, the Pushpa films and K.G.F have been widely dubbed and released across India, which is why the phrase "pan-India film" became common. Many South Indian actors now work across two or three languages, and dubbed releases have greatly expanded their audiences in the Hindi-speaking north and overseas.
Within that landscape, Kamal Haasan's best-known work has been primarily in Tamil-language productions. Understanding the industry helps explain the shape of his career: the number of releases per year, the importance of particular directors, producers and channels, and the balance between theatrical, broadcast and streaming releases.
Career Notes
For many viewers, Nayakan is the natural starting point when exploring Kamal Haasan's work. Looking at the titles above together gives a sense of the range of projects he is known for and the audiences he has reached. Because careers in film are long and varied, a handful of famous titles never tells the whole story; supporting roles, regional releases, stage work and streaming projects are also part of most performers' histories, and they will be added here when documented.
Personal Details: What Is and Isn't Confirmed
- Date of birth: 7 November 1954
- Birthplace: Paramakudi, Tamil Nadu, India
- Years active: 1960–present
- Parents: D. Srinivasan, Rajalakshmi
- Siblings: Charuhasan, Chandrahasan
- Marital status: Divorced
- Spouse: Previously married to Vani Ganapathy and to Sarika
- Children: Shruti Haasan and Akshara Haasan (with Sarika)
Still not publicly confirmed on this profile: net worth, height, education. This site does not publish unaudited net-worth figures or relationship rumours. A blank field is filled only after a reliable public source is checked.
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