Ten Best scenes of Kamal the True Actor

Kamal Haasan man who introduced or at least popularized the concept of putting in a lot of time, money and hard work for just the looks of a character in Tamil cine industry.

But it is an undeniable fact that he would have achieved the legendary status as an actor even if he never resorted to such efforts for the looks of his character. He has proved this fact in many films in his wealthy repertoire of a career that has completed five decades.

In this slide show IndiaGlitz brings you such moments from Kamal film where the natural actor in Kamal made us awestruck with his out of the world performance.

Moondram Pirai (1982)

In the famous ‘Kanne Kalaimane’ song is a form of lullaby sung by Kamal to Sridevi who suffers from a loss of memory. While the predominant part of the song Kamal will just sing without any notable expression. Only in the last line of the second stanza ‘Unakke uyiranen ennalum enai nee maravadhe’ Kamal will get emotional and express that without shedding tears. Any person watching this song will feel a lump on his/her throat mainly due to Kamal’s expression. Those who know Tamil will get a stronger impact with the divine lyrics of the Kaviyarasar.

Salangai Oli (1983)

In one particular scene in ‘Salanga Oli’ Jayapradha will show an invitation for a National level classical dance program. Kamal will turn over every page and will keep explaining her about the greatness of each dancer who are going to perform in the event. While he casually turns over the page he will see his photo in the invitation and only through that he gets to know he has got a chance to perform in that prestigious event through her. Kamal has to express exclamation, surprise, shock, gratitude and many other dramatic emotions and the way he brought them all within a few seconds through his facial expressions and body language will prove why he is considered as one of the best actors of the world..

Nayakan (1987)

The great underworld don whose daughter has left years ago, accidentally meets her again when she's having a family of her own with a son and the don(Velu Naicker) is excited as well as emotional seeing his daughter after a long time. Naicker's daughter hasn't changed her mind in time and is embarassed to have him at her house and wants him to leave the place immediately. ‘Nayakan’ is an action film but even in that Kamal made his root for him with his emotional action mainly in this particular scene. While any actor could have done this well written scene in a good manner, Kamal would have lifted it to new levels making it remembered by the very last fan of Tamil cinema.

Varumayin Niram Sivappu (1980)

An enthusiastic unemployed philosopher, who's high on his passion leaves the home after a constant ideology clash with his father. In the interview scene where Kamal Haasan contradicts with the interviewers with his anger, social concern and the pain of poverty remains epic for the way he portrayed it.

Unnal Mudiyum Thambi (1988)

Directed by K.Balachander, our generation probably had started to cherish the quintessential performer Kamal from this film which often had been telecasted in television channels. The scene where Kamal explains his father that he had to skip the Carnatic concert of that day due to a fire accident stands out still as an example for dialogue delivery. That 'Naan Sapda Poren' monologue that follows this scene (after Gemini Ganesan leaves the frame) must be included in the case study of film aspirants.

Kalaingan (1993)

Being fooled by a girl who feigned as fallen in love with him, Kamal Haasan who played the role of Tamil pop singer finds out her motive and expresses his state of mind. Having no family, Kamal tells her that how painful it's to be in his state, even though he has a lot of fan following and popularity. This is one scene where you cannot see anything, but the character's pain in Ulaganayagan's eyes.

Mahanadhi (1994)

Received National Award for the category "Best Feature film", 'Mahanadhi' can still make your heart hurt. The story of a villager who has to watch his everything getting ruined in this adulterated society, questions every aspect of our beliefs and teachings of moral life. Kamal Haasan is in prison and meets his family members. He comes to know that his daughter has attained puberty. He gets extremely happy for that like a typical father but at the same time his grief gets intensified by the fact that he cannot be with his daughter at this important moment of life. He struggles but fails to control he tears of joy as well as sorry flowing down from his eyes. Our eyes gets moisture even while describing this scene and that is mainly because of the way the Ulaganayagan performed it.

Thenali (2000)

In ‘Thenali’ everything moves on a comical note until this particular scene and this particular moment of the scene to be precise. Yes the scene in Kamal who fears anything and everything explains the reason for his fear to the psychiatrist played by Jayaram. Even this scene provides us ample laughter befo

Kamal Haasan man who introduced or at least popularized the concept of putting in a lot of time, money and hard work for just the looks of a character in Tamil cine industry.