Kamal Haasan: A Cinematic Journey

In many ways Kamal Haasan is unique. One of the greatest actors India has ever produced he has usually gone further than just enacting a role to completely immersing himself in it. Kamal Haasan: A Cinematic Journey explores some fifty films out of the 245 Haasan has been associated with and analyses his cinematic journey from his beginnings as a child star all the way to his latest blockbusters. It traces how even at a young age he took on roles other actors would be wary of positioning himself as an object of female desire in the 1980s; balancing both comedy and tragedy with aplomb; playing formerly caricatured roles such as that of a dwarf in Apoorva Sagodharargal and a woman in Chachi 420 with dignity; and having a resurgence in 2022 with the blockbuster Vikram.This book is the best introduction possible to Kamal Haasan: his life his thoughts and his movies.