Kamal Hassan film festival in Delhi

Actor Kamal Hassan has contributed a lot to Indian cinema. He has acted in several Hindi as well South Indian films. Now, a film festival titled ‘Retrospective of kamal Hassan Films’ has been organized in New Delhi. It’s a three days film festival from 2 July to 4 July 2010.


Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni will be inaugurating the film festival at the Siri Fort Auditorium. In the film festival seven movies will screen of Kamal Hassan and entry is free.

It will start with the Kamal Hassan’s Hey Ram and other six movies will be Virumaandi, Anbe Sivam, Thevar Magan, Nayagan and Dasavathaaram and one Telugu movie Sagar Sangamam.

Kamal Hassan icon of Indian Cinema

An icon in Indian cinema, Kamal Hassan has holds the record for being the actor who has won the most number of National Film Awards, three for best actor and one for best child artist. He has won 19 Filmfare Awards. He said he didn’t went to any film school, to learn acting techniques. But he has worked under some master, even they have not taught anything, he learnt by his own interest.

He even visited the post production facilities at the National Film Development Corporation (Finas). He also revealed that he and MDeC are both in discussions with Barrie M. Osborne who was an executive producer for Hollywood films such as the Lords of the Rings trilogy and The Matrix.

There is a dream project, which first time in media Kamal has shared, it is a Tamil film called Marudhanayagam. He has worked on this project since 1997. In fact, Queen Elizabeth launched the film during her visit to India in 1997.