“Raja Paarvai”: I doubt if any actor would take the risk of playing a blind character in his 100th film, but Kamal Haasan is an exception. In this poignant tale of romance between a blind violinist and a young Christian girl, director Singeetham Srinivasa Rao extracted the best out of Kamal, who had also co-written the film.
“Virumaandi”: Borrowing the narrative style of Japanese film “Rashomon”, Kamal addressed the abolition of death sentence from the Indian judicial system in “Virumaandi”. As a happy-go-lucky village rogue, he delivered one of the finest performances in his career with this film, which is remembered for giving Tamil cinema one of the finest actors, Pasupathy.
“Hey Ram”: In this semi-fictional recounting of India’s partition and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, Kamal, as the film’s writer-director and actor, highlights religious extremism. The film was a box office disaster and paved the way to a lot of controversies, but the audience hardly realised that its purpose was to highlight the journey of a character named Saket Ram, who rejected the notion of securing rights through violence and allowed religious hatred to be taken over by love.
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