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.

Product Details

Format: Hardback | 280 pages
Language: English
ISBN-13 : 9789354899621
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Publication date: 10 Jul 2024
Category: Film theory & criticism
Reading age ? : ? 18+ years
Author: Krishnan Hariharan
Dimensions: ? 15.7 x 2 x 23.5 cm
Weight: 428 g