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In this Indian name, the name "Viswanathan" is a patronymic, not a family name, and the person should be referred to by the given name, "Anand".
Viswanathan Anand

Full name
Viswanathan Anand
Country
India
Born
11 December 1969 (1969-12-11) (age 38)Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Title
Grandmaster (1988)
World Champion
2000-2002 (FIDE), 2007-present (undisputed)
FIDE rating
2783(No. 5 on the October 2008 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating
2803 (April 2006, April 2008)
Viswanathan Anand (pronounced [ʋiɕˈʋəˌnɑ:ˌt̪ʰən ɑ:nˌənd̪], Tamil: விசுவநாதன் ஆனந்த்) (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion.
Anand won the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000, at a time when the world title was split. He became the undisputed World Champion in 2007 and defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008. With this win, he became the first player in chess history to have won the World Championship in three different formats: Knockout, Tournament, and Match. He will next defend his title in the World Chess Championship 2009 against the winner of the challenger match between Veselin Topalov and Gata Kamsky.
Anand is one of four players in history to break the 2800 mark on the FIDE rating list. He was at the top of the world rankings five out of six times, from April 2007 to July 2008. In October 2008, he dropped out of the world top three ranking for the first time since July 1996.
In 2007 he was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan. He is also the first recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 1991-92, India's highest sporting honour.
Contents[hide]
1 Personal life
2 Chess career
2.1 Early career
2.2 World Chess Champion
2.3 World Rapid Chess Champion
2.4 World Blitz Chess Champion
2.5 Other results
2.6 Rating
2.7 Chess titles
3 Awards
4 Sample game
5 Further reading
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
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[edit] Personal life
Vishwanathan Anand was born on 11 December 1969 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu,[1] to Vishwanathan, who retired as General Manager, Southern Railways, and Susheela, housewife and chess aficionado. He has a brother and a sister.[2]
He was taught to play by his mother. He described his start in chess in a conversation with Susan Polgar:
I started when I was six. My mother taught me how to play. In fact, my mother used to do a lot for my chess. We moved to the Philippines shortly afterward. I joined the club in India and we moved to the Philippines for a year. And there they had a TV program that was on in the afternoon, one to two or something like that, when I was in school. So she would write down all the games that they showed and the puzzles, and in the evening we solved them together. Of course my mother and her family used to play some chess, and she used to play her younger brother, so she had some background in chess, but she never went to a club or anything like that. So we solved all these puzzles and sent in our answers together. And they gave the prize of a book to the winner. And over the course of many months, I won so many prizes. At one point they just said take all the books you want, but don't send in any more entries.[3]
Anand holds a degree in commerce and his hobbies are reading, swimming & listening to music. He lives in Collado Mediano in Spain with his wife Aruna.[4]

[edit] Chess career

[edit] Early career
Anand's rise in the Indian chess world was meteoric. National level success came early for him when he won the National Sub-Junior Chess Championship with a score of 9/9 in 1983 at the age of fourteen. He became the youngest Indian to win the International Master Title at the age of fifteen, in 1984. At the age of sixteen he became the national chess champion and won that title two more times. He played games at blitz speed. In 1987, he became the first Indian to win the World Junior Chess Championship. In 1988, at the age of eighteen, he became India's first Grandmaster. He was awarded Padma Shri at the age of 18.
"Vishy", as he is sometimes called by his friends, burst upon the upper echelons of the chess scene in the early 1990s, winning such tournaments as Reggio Emilia 1991 (ahead of Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov). Playing at such a high level did not slow him down, and he continued to play games at blitz speed.
In the World Chess Championship 1993 cycle Anand qualified for his first Candidates Tournament, winning his first match but narrowly losing his quarter-final match to Anatoly Karpov.[5]
In 1994-95 Anand and Gata Kamsky dominated the qualifying cycles for the rival FIDE and PCA world championships. In the FIDE cycle (FIDE World Chess Championship 1996), Anand lost his quarter-final match to Kamsky after leading early.[6] Kamsky went on to make championship match against Karpov.
In the 1995 PCA cycle, Anand won matches against Oleg Romanishin and Michael Adams without a loss, then avenged his FIDE loss by defeating Gata Kamsky in the Candidates final.[7] In 1995, he played the PCA World Chess Championship 1995 against Kasparov in New York City's World Trade Center. After an opening run of eight draws (a record for the opening of a world championship match), Anand won game nine with a powerful exchange sacrifice, but then lost four of the next five. He lost the match 10.5 - 7.5.

[edit] World Chess Champion
After several near misses, Anand won the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 for the first time after defeating Alexei Shirov 3.5 - 0.5 in the final match held at Tehran, thereby becoming the first Indian to win that title. He lost the title when Ruslan Ponomariov won the FIDE knockout tournament in 2002.
He tied for second with Peter Svidler in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 with 8.5 points out of 14 games, 1.5 points behind the winner, Veselin Topalov.
In September 2007 Anand became World Champion again by winning that year's FIDE World Championship Tournament held in Mexico City. He won the double round-robin tournament with a final score of 9 out of 14 points, a full point ahead of joint second place finishers Vladimir Kramnik and Boris Gelfand.
In 2000, when Anand won the FIDE World Championship, there was also the rival "Classical" World Championship, held by Kramnik. By 2007, the world championship had been reunified, so Anand's victory in Mexico City made him undisputed World Chess Champion. He became the first undisputed champion to win the title in a tournament, rather than in matchplay, since Mikhail Botvinnik in 1948.
In October 2007, Anand said he liked the double round robin championship format (as used in the 2007 championship in Mexico City), and that the right of Kramnik to automatically challenge for the title was "ridiculous".[8]
Anand successfully defended the title against Kramnik in the World Chess Championship 2008, a twelve-game match held in Bonn, Germany, between October 14 and October 29, with Anand scoring 6.5 out of 11 games.[9] Before the final game Anand led 6-4 and needed only a draw in one of the two remaining games to win the match. In the last game, Kramnik played the Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defense. Once the players traded queens, Kramnik offered a draw after 24 moves since he had no winning chances in the endgame.[10]
Final GameAnand,V (2783) - Kramnik,V (2772)
WCh Bonn GER (11), 29.10.2008
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qc7 8.Bxf6 gxf6 9.f5 Qc5 10.Qd3 Nc6 11.Nb3 Qe5 12.0–0–0 exf5 13.Qe3 Bg7 14.Rd5 Qe7 15.Qg3 Rg8 16.Qf4 fxe4 17.Nxe4 f5 18.Nxd6+ Kf8 19.Nxc8 Rxc8 20.Kb1 Qe1+ 21.Nc1 Ne7 22.Qd2 Qxd2 23.Rxd2 Bh6 24.Rf2 Be3 ½–½ [11]
On his winning the championship his mother - and his first coach - said “To me, it was like the first chess match he won in a school tournament. It’s just the same, only the degree has changed.” [12]
Responding to Anand's win, Garry Kasparov said "A great result for Anand and for chess. Vishy deserved the win in every way and I’m very happy for him. It will not be easy for the younger generation to push him aside... Anand out-prepared Kramnik completely. In this way it reminded me of my match with Kramnik in London 2000. Like I was then, Kramnik may have been very well prepared for this match, but we never saw it." [13]

[edit] World Rapid Chess Champion
In October 2003, the governing body of chess, FIDE, organized a rapid time control tournament in Cap d'Agde[14][15] and billed it as the World Rapid Chess Championship. Each player had 25 minutes at the start of the game, with an additional 10 seconds after each move. Anand won this event ahead of ten of the other top twelve players in the world, beating Kramnik in the final. His main recent titles in this category are at: Corsica (six years in a row from 1999 through 2005), Chess Classic (nine years in a row from 2000 through 2008), Leon 2005, Eurotel 2002, Fujitsu Giants 2002 and the Melody Amber (five times – and he won the rapid portion of Melody Amber seven times). In the Melody Amber 2007, Anand did not lose a single game in the rapid section, and scored 8.5/11, two more than the runners-up. His performance in the rapid section was 2939.[16] In most tournament time control games that Anand plays, he has more time left than his opponent at the end of the game. He lost on time in one game, to Gata Kamsky. Otherwise, he took advantage of the rule allowing players in time trouble to use dashes instead of the move notation during the last four minutes only once, in the game Anand - Svidler at the MTel Masters 2006.[17]

[edit] World Blitz Chess Champion
In January 2000, 629 player Plus GSM World Blitz Chess Cup was held near Warsaw in Poland. Topseed Viswanathan Anand won the event by half a point. Anand scored 14 wins, drew 7 games and lost a lone game to Akopian scoring 17.5 points from 22 games.[18] Fide did not conduct World Blitz Championship until 2006 which was won by Alexander Grischuk, 2007 event was won by Vassily Ivanchuk. Fide named the 2008 world blitz chess championship as the fourth in its website.[19] Thus Anand became the first World blitz chess champion.

[edit] Other results
Anand won three consecutive Advanced Chess tournaments in Leon, Spain, after Garry Kasparov introduced this form of chess in 1998, and is widely recognized as the world's best Advanced Chess player, where humans may consult a computer to aid in their calculation of variations.
Anand has won the Chess Oscar in 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, and 2007. The Chess Oscar is awarded to the year's best player according to a world-wide poll of leading chess critics, writers, and journalists conducted by the Russian chess magazine 64.
His game collection, My Best Games of Chess, was published in the year 1998 and was updated in 2001.
Anand's recent tournament successes include the Corus chess tournament in 2006 (tied with Veselin Topalov), Dortmund in 2004, and Linares in 2007 and 2008. He has won the annually held Monaco Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Championships in years 1994, 1997, 2003, 2005 and 2006. He is the only player to have won five titles of the Corus chess tournament. He is also the only player to win the blind and rapid sections of the Amber tournament in the same year (and he did this twice – in 1997 and 2005). He is the first player to have achieved victories in each of the three big chess supertournaments: Corus (1998, 2003, 2004, 2006), Linares (1998, 2007, 2008), Dortmund (1996, 2000, 2004).
In 2007 he won the Grenkeleasing Rapid championship, which he won for the tenth time defeating Armenian GM Levon Aronian. Incidentally, just a few days before Aronian had defeated Anand in the Chess960 final.
In March 2007, Anand won the Linares chess tournament and it was widely believed that he would be ranked world No.1 in the FIDE Elo rating list for April 2007. However, Anand was placed No.2 in the initial list released because the Linares result was not included. FIDE subsequently announced that the Linares results would be included after all,[20] making Anand number one in the April 2007 list.[21]
Anand won the Mainz 2008 Supertournament Championship by defeating upcoming star Magnus Carlsen, earning his eleventh title in that event.[22]

[edit] Rating
In the April 2007 FIDE Elo rating list, Anand was ranked first in the world for the first time,[23] and (as of July 2008[update]) he held the number one spot in all ratings lists but one since then until July 2008, the exception being the January 2008 list, where he was rated #2 behind Vladimir Kramnik (equal rating, but Kramnik held the #1 spot due to more games played).[24] He dropped to #5 in the October 2008 list, the first time he had been outside the top 3 since July 1996.[25]

[edit] Chess titles
1983 National Sub-Junior Chess Champion - age 14
1984 International Master - age 15
1985 Indian National Champion - age 16
1987 World Junior Chess Champion,
1988 Grandmaster
2000 FIDE World Chess Champion
2000 FIDE World Bitz Chess Champion
2003 FIDE World Rapid Chess Champion
2007 FIDE World Chess Champion (Undisputed)
2008 FIDE World Chess Champion (Undisputed)

[edit] Awards
Anand has received many national and international awards.
Arjuna award for Outstanding Indian Sportsman in Chess in 1985
Padma Shri, National Citizens Award and Soviet Land Nehru Award in 1987
The inaugural Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, India's highest sporting honour in the year 1991-1992.
British Chess Federation 'Book of the Year' Award in 1998 for his book My Best Games of Chess
Padma Bhushan in 2000
Jameo de Oro the highest honour given by the Government of Lanzarote in Spain on 25 April 2001. The award is given to illustrious personalities with extraordinary achievements.
Chess Oscar (1997, 1998, 2003, 2004 and 2007)
Sportstar Millennium Award in 1998, from India's premier Sports magazine for being the sportperson of the millennium
Padma Vibhushan in 2007

[edit] Sample game




































































In this position after move 36 in the 2000 FIDE World Championship game between Viswanathan Anand and Victor Bologan, Anand (White), in an apparently worse position, finds an intuitive sacrifice that leads to a winning attack.
On his way to winning the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000, Anand (White) defeated Grandmaster Viktor Bologan (Black). Here are the moves (analysis by Grandmaster Ľubomír Ftáčnik):
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Nb8 10. d4 Nbd7 11. Nbd2 Bb7 12. Bc2 Re8 13. Nf1 Bf8 14. Ng3 c5 15. d5 c4 16. Bg5 Qc7 17. Nf5 Kh8 18. g4 Ng8 19. Qd2 Nc5 20. Be3 Bc8 21. Ng3 Rb8 22. Kg2 a5 23. a3 Ne7 24. Rh1 Ng6 25. g5! b4!? Anand has an excellent kingside attack, so Bologan seeks counterplay with the sacrifice of a pawn. 26. axb4 axb4 27. cxb4 Na6 28. Ra4 Nf4+ 29. Bxf4 exf4 30. Nh5 Qb6 31. Qxf4 Nxb4 32. Bb1 Rb7 33. Ra3 Rc7 34. Rd1 Na6 35. Nd4 Qxb2 36. Rg3 c3 (see diagram) 37. Nf6!! Re5 If 37...gxf6, 38. gxf6 h6 39. Rg1! Qd2! 40. Qh4 leaves white with an irresistible initiative . 38. g6! fxg6 39. Nd7 Be7 40. Nxe5 dxe5 41. Qf7 h6 42. Qe8+ 1-0 [26]

[edit] Further reading
Viswanathan Anand, My Best Games of Chess (Gambit, 2001 (new edition))

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Subramanya Bharathi
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Subramania Bharati
Subramania Bharati 1882-1921
Alternate name(s):
Bharatiyar
Date of birth:
December 11, 1882(1882-12-11)
Place of birth:
Ettayapuram, Madras Presidency, [India]
Date of death:
September 11, 1921 (aged 38)
Place of death:
Madras, [India]]
Movement:
Indian independence movement
Subramania Bharati (Tamil: சுப்பிரமணிய பாரதி) (December 11, 1882 - September 11, 1921) was a Tamil poet from Tamil Nadu, India, independence fighter and reformer. Known as Mahakavi Bharati (the laudatory epithet Maha Kavi meaning Great Poet in Tamil), he is celebrated as one of India's greatest poets. Bharati was prolific and adept in both the prose and poetry forms, and his rousing compositions helped rally the masses to support the Indian independence movement in South India. Bharati lived during an eventful period of Indian history; his contemporaries included other prominent leaders of the Indian independence movement such as Mahatma Gandhi, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Sri Aurobindo and V.V.S.Aiyar.
Contents[hide]
1 Early life
2 Nationalist
2.1 Militancy
2.2 Exile in Pondicherry
3 Literary career
3.1 Nationalistic poems
3.2 Religious and philosophical poems
3.3 Carnatic Music compositions
3.4 Journalism
3.5 Innovation in Tamil poetry
3.6 Literary output
4 Social reformer
5 Death
6 References
7 External links
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[edit] Early life

The house in Ettayapuram where Bharati was born
Bharati was born to Chinnasami Subramania Iyer and Lakshmi Ammaal on December 11, 1882 in the Tamil village of Ettayapuram. Bharati was educated at a local high school called "The M.D.T.Hindu College". He learnt music from very young age and at 11 was invited to a conference of Ettayapuram court poets and musicians for composing poems and songs. It was here that he was conferred the title of "Bharathi" (Goddess of learning). Bharati lost his mother at the age of 5 and his father at the age of 16. He married his cousin Chellamal in 1897, at the age of fourteen. After an early marriage, Bharati, curious to see the outside world, left for Benares in 1898. The next four years of his life served as a passage of discovery, when Bharathi discovered a country in tumult outside his small hamlet. Bharati worked as a school teacher in Madurai Sethupathy High School (Now a Higher Secondary School) and as a journal editor at various times in his life.

[edit] Nationalist
During his stay in Benares, also known as Kashi and Varanasi, Bharati was exposed to Hindu spirituality and nationalism. Bharati's enquiring mind began to see beyond the social taboo superstition that held sway amidst the orthodox South Indians. In December 1905, he attended the All India Congress Session held in Benaras. On his way back he met Sister Nivedita, Vivekananda’s spiritual daughter, and came under her spell. From her arose another of Bharati’s iconoclasm, his stand to recognise the privileges of women. The emancipation of women exercised Bharati’s mind greatly. He visualised the ‘new woman’ as an emanation of Shakti, a willing helpmate of man to build a new earth through co-operative endeavour. [1]
During this period, Bharati Understood the need to be well-informed of the world outside and took avid interest in the world of journalism and the print media of the West. Bharati joined as Assistant Editor of the Swadeshamitran, a Tamil daily in 1904. By April 1907, he had started and along with M.P.T. Acharya, edited the Tamil weekly India and the English newspaper Bala Bharatham.
These papers not only served the purpose of enlightening the masses on the affairs of the nation and the world outside, but also were a means of expressing Bharathi's creativity, which began to peak during this period. Bharathi started to publish his poems regularly in these editions. From complex religious hymns to rousing nationalist anthems, from contemplations on the relationship between God and Man to songs on the Russian and French revolutions, Bharati's subjects were truly diverse.
He was simultaneously up against personal and social poverty, society for its mistreatment of the downtrodden people, and the British for occupying India. Though he lived a life of abject poverty, he was always positive.

[edit] Militancy
Bharathi participated in the historic Surat Congress in 1907, which deepend the divisions within the Indian National Congress between the militant wing led by Tilak and Aurobindo and the 'moderates'. Subramania Bharati supported Tilak and Aurobindo together with V. O. Chidambaram Pillai and Kanchi Varathaachariyar. Tilak openly supported armed resistance against the British.
Bharati immersed himself in writing and in political activity. In Madras, in 1908, he organised a public meeting to celebrate Swaraj (independence) Day'. His nationalistic poems Vanthe Matharam, Enthayum Thayum, Jaya Bharath were printed and distributed free to the audience. He is rightly referred to as the National Poet of India.

[edit] Exile in Pondicherry
In 1908, he gave evidence in the case which had been instituted by the British against V.O. Chidambaram Pillai. In the same year, the proprietor of the 'India' was arrested in Madras. Faced with the prospect of arrest, Bharati escaped to Pondicherry which was under French rule.
From there Bharati edited and published the weekly journal India, Vijaya, a Tamil daily, Bala Bharatha, an English monthly, and Suryothayam a local weekly of Pondicherry. The British tried to suppress Bharathi's output by stopping remittances and letters to the papers. Both India and Vijaya were banned in British India in 1909.
During his exile, Bharati had the opportunity to mix with many other leaders of the militant wing of the Independence movement such as Aurobindo, Lajpat Rai and V.V.S. Aiyar, who had also sought asylum under the French. Bharathi met with Aurobindo in Pondicherry and the discussions often turned to religion and philosophy. He assisted Aurobindo in the Arya journal and later Karma Yogi in Pondicherry. Bharathy met with Mahatma Gandhi in 1919 in Rajaji's home.
Bharathi entered British India near Cuddalore in November 1918 and was promptly arrested. He was imprisoned in the Central prison in Cuddalore in custody for three weeks - from 20 November to 14 December. In Kashi he met a sikh and he was inspired to change his attire and started wearing turban.

[edit] Literary career
Bharati had an exceptional love and devotion towards his mother tongue Tamil language, which he considered as the sweetest of all the languages known to him. He has written in one of his poems, 'Of all the languages I know, I have not heard a sweeter language than Tamil' (யாமறிந்த மொழிகளிலே தமிழ்மொழி போல் இனிதாவது எங்கும் காணோம்). He was fluent in many languages including Bengali, Hindi, Sanskrit, Kutchi, French and English and frequently translated works from other languages into Tamil. He had a voracious appetite for learning ancient and contemporary Tamil literature and derived astonishing insights from the ancient poems. He emphasized that musicians should not sing songs which they don't understand and should learn from Hindustani musicians how to train their voices. He was not a simple propagandist poet, however noble his patriotic and humanist sentiments were. He was also a seeker of beauty and philosophic wisdom. As a national poet, as a poet with a universal vision and as a poet of beauty and truth, he is comparable to some of the great poets of the world. Hence his claim to a lofty place in the great galaxy of world poetry.
A number of his creations are about nature. Both Bharati and Shelley were soaring spirits and loved the sparrow and the skylark respectively as symbols of freedom. But Bharathi is not content with the mindless joy of the sparrow; he wants to fly in the sky like a bird so that he can see the endless hills, springs, rivers and the sea. But the human body does not give him full freedom and he also recognizes that the very growth of human civilization is a hindrance to experiencing the bliss of the bird. But he never wants to surrender his humanity. He is alive to the fact that in the world of the bird, there is no intellectual joy of man. Whereas Shelley is unwilling to return to the earth because of its sadness (our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught), Bharathi’s sparrow asks man to give up not life but desire. Bharathi’s poetry is not an escape from but into life. [2]

[edit] Nationalistic poems
Bharathi is considered a nationalistic poet due to his number of poems of the patriotic flavour through which he extolled the people to join the Independence struggle. He wrote "The glorious Himalayas are ours and there is none to compare with it on this earth…The good river Ganges is our river and there is no river to rival its goodness…
விடுதலை! விடுதலை! விடுதலை! பறைய ருக்கும் இங்கு தீயர் புலைய ருக்கும் விடுதலை பரவ ரோடு குறவருக்கும் மறவ ருக்கும் விடுதலை! திறமை கொண்டதீமை யற்ற தொழில் புரிந்து யாவரும் தேர்ந்த கல்வி ஞானம் எய்தி வாழ்வம் இந்த நாட்டிலே.
Instead of merely being proud of his country he also outlined his vision for a free India. He wrote 'When you say Bharat you will lose your fear of your enemies…We will make weapons, produce good paper, we will build big factories and create great schools. We will never rest, nor sleep; we will be truthful and excel…'
Bharathi's strong nationalistic sense may be illustrated by this:
ஆயிரம் உண்டிங்கு சாதி, எனில் அன்னியர் வந்து புகலென்ன நீதி!
We may have thousand of sects; that, however, does not justify a foreign invasion.

[edit] Religious and philosophical poems
Bharati produced such masterpieces as Kannan Paattu (Song of Krishna), in which Bharati sought to portray God as the source of all of humanity's passions in the most accessible of forms including in the roles of a love-lorn lover, of a mischievous child, of an innocent child, and of a wise teacher.
Bharati also published two of his most widely read epics during this period: Panchali Sapatham (Draupadi's Vow), a poetic semi-political reflection on greed, pride and righteousness derived from the Indian epic Mahabharata, and Kuyil Paatu (Song of The Cuckoo), an ode and a tribute to the poet's favourite Shelley.

[edit] Carnatic Music compositions
Bharati composed Carnatic music kritis in Tamil on love, devotion, etc. He set his songs to music and could sing them well in a variety of ragas. In Bharata Deviyin Thiru Dasangam he used ten different ragas. His patriotic songs emphasize nationalism, unity of India, equality of man and the greatness of the Tamil language, set to folk tunes. He sang these himself at various political meetings.
Although he was fluent in Sanskrit (and other languages including Bengali, Hindi, Sanskrit, Kutchi, French and English), he only composed two songs purely in Sanskrit, with the vast majority being in Tamil.
In an article Sangeeta Vishayam (Issues in Music), Bharatiyar rebukes musicians for singing songs of the Trinity, Patnam Subramania Iyer and others without knowing the meaning because the songs are all in Sanskrit or Telugu. He says, without knowing the meaning, singers are unable to sing with proper expression. He also says songs usually portray devotion and love and not other emotions like courage, anger, wonder, fear, and hatred. He emphasized that musicians should not sing songs which they do not understand and should learn from Hindustani musicians how to train their voices.
Bharati set tunes for a number of his songs, however not all of them have been recovered. Some of the songs of Bharati that are currently very popular in the Carnatic music concert circuit include: Theeratha Vilaiyattu Pillai, Chinnanchiru Kiliye (tuned by him in Raga Bhairavi, but popularised in Ragamalika), Suttum Vizhi, Thikku Theriyaatha, Senthamizh Nadenum, and Paarukkule Nalla Naadu.

[edit] Journalism
As a journalist, Bharati was the first in India to introduce caricatures and political cartoons to his newspapers; they were satirical and angry hand-drawn illustrations of the poet that improvised heavily on the works of his inspiration Thomas Nast. He published and edited various journals such as Swadeshamitran, India, Vijaya, and Bala Bharatham.

[edit] Innovation in Tamil poetry
Bharati was a pioneer in introducing a new style of Tamil poetry. Until then the poems had to follow the strict syntactic rules set down by the ancient Tamil grammatical treatise Tolkappiyam. Bharati broke this syntactic bonds and created a prose-poetic style known as the puthukkavithai (modern poems).

[edit] Literary output
Bharati's was a prolific writer and in his short life he produced numerous poems short and long, essays, prose-poetry and fiction. He wrote poems in both the conventional as well as his new style of puthukkavithai. His works may be broadly classified into these heading
Autobiography (சுய சரிதை)
Patriotic songs (தேசிய கீதங்கள்)
Philosophical songs (ஞானப்பாடல்கள்)
Miscellaneous songs (பல்வகைப் பாடல்கள்)
Devotional songs (தோத்திரப் பாடல்கள்)
Commentary on Gita (பகவத் கீதை முன்னுரை)
Kannan song, Kuyil song (கண்ணன் பாட்டு, குயில் பாட்டு)
Panchali's Vow (பாஞ்சாலி சபதம்)
Chandrika's story (சந்திரிகையின் கதை) (an unfinished novel)
Pappa Pattu (பாப்பாப் பாட்டு) (Songs for the Children)
Leaders

[edit] Social reformer

A statue of Subramania Bharati is unveiled by President R. Venkataraman (right) with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi (centre) and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. G. Ramachandran in attendance
His poetry expressed a progressive, reformist ideal. His powerful imagery and the vigour of his verse has come to symbolise Tamil culture in many respects. Bharathiyaar famously espoused greater freedom and respect for women:
We will destroy the idiocy
Of denigrating womanhood
In the poem, Bharati expresses his frustrations at some of the deploring superstitions of his fellow men which are responsible for their remaining as slaves despite all their resources and glorious past.
'My blood boils to think of these idiotic men! How many divisions within us, they are more than a crore!…'
Bharati fought against the caste system in the Hindu society. Although born into an orthodox Brahmin family, he gave up his own caste identity. One of his great sayings meant, "There are only two castes in the world: One who is educated and one who is not". He considered all living beings as equal and to illustrate this he even performed upanayanam to a young harijan man and made him a Brahmin. He also scorned the divisive tendencies being imparted into the younger generations by their elderly tutors during his time. He openly criticised the preachers for mixing their individual thoughts while teaching the Vedas and the Gita.

[edit] Death
Bharati's health was badly affected by the imprisonments and by 1920, when a General Amnesty Order finally removed restrictions on his movements, Bharati was struggling in penury and failing health resulting in his tragic premature death.
Bharati was struck by an elephant at Parthasarathy temple, Thiruvallikeni, Chennai. It is an irony of fate that a temple elephant, whom he used to feed regularly, attacked him one day from which he got very sick. He however survived the mishap. A few months later his health deteriorated and he died on September 11, 1921, not yet forty years of age. Though Bharati was a people's poet there were only around fifteen people to attend his funeral. [3]
The last years of his life were spent in a house in Triplicane, Chennai. This house was bought and renovated by the Government of Tamil Nadu in 1993 and named 'Bharathiyar Illam' (Home of Bharathiyar).

our great women

P. T. Usha
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P. T. Usha

Born
Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha [1]27 June 1964Payyoli, Kozhikode, Kerala, India
Residence
Payyoli, Kozhikode
Nationality
Indian
Other names
Payyoli Express
Employer
Indian Railways
Title
Padmashri
Known for
Losing the Bronze Medal at 1984 Los Angeles Olympics 400 metre hurdles by a fraction of a second.
Spouse(s)
V. Srinivasan
Children
Ujjwal
Parents
Paithal, Lakshmi
Websitehttp://www.ptusha.com/
Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha (Malayalam: പിലാവുളളകണ്ടി തെക്കേപറമ്പില്‍ ഉഷ) (born June 27, 1964), popularly known as P.T. Usha is an Indian athlete from the state of Kerala. Regarded as queen of Indian track and field, P.T. Usha has been associated with Indian athletics since 1979. Her initials stand for her family/house name, according to tradition in many parts of Kerala. She was nicknamed Payyoli Express.
PT Usha was born in the village of Payyoli, Kozhikode District,Kerala. In 1976 the Kerala State Government started a Sports School for women, and Usha was chosen to represent her district.
Contents[hide]
1 Career
2 Achievements
3 World Record
4 Awards and Honors
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
8 Further reading
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[edit] Career
In 1979 she participated in the National School Games, where she was noticed by O.M. Nambiar, who coached her throughout her career. Her debut in the 1980 Moscow Olympics proved lacklustre. In the 1982 New Delhi Asiad, she got silver medal in the 100 m and the 200 m, but at the Asian Track and Field Championship in Kuwait a year later, Usha took gold in the 400m with a new Asian record[citation needed] . Between 1983-89, Usha garnered 13 golds at ATF meets. She finished first in the semi-finals of the 400 metres hurdles in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, but faltered in the finals. In almost a repeat of Milkha Singh's 1960 feat, there was a nail-biting photo finish for the third place. Usha lost the bronze by 1/100th of a second. She became the first Indian woman (and the fifth Indian) to reach the final of an Olympic event by winning her 400 m hurdles Semi-final.
In the 10th Asian Games held at Seoul in 1986, P.T.Usha won 4 gold and 1 silver medal in the track and field events. Here she created new Asian Games records in all the events she participated.She won five golds at the 6th Asian Track and Field Championship at Jakarta in 1985. Her six medals at the same meet is a record for a single athlete in a single international meet.[citation needed]
Usha has won 101 international medals so far. She is employed as an officer in the Southern Railways. In 1985, she was conferred the Padma Shri and the Arjuna award.

[edit] Achievements
Medal record
P. T. Usha
Women's athletics
Asian Games
Silver
1982 New Delhi
2 No.s
Gold
1986 Seoul
4 No.s
Silver
1986 Seoul
1 No.
Silver
1990 Beijing
3 No.s
Silver
1994 Hiroshima
1 No.
1980: -- Participated in Moscow Olympics games
Secured 4 gold medals in the Karachi international Invitation meet.
1981: -- Secured 2 gold medals in Pune Int: Invitation meet.
1 gold medal in Hissar Int: Invitation meet. 2 gold medals in Ludhiana Int: Invitation meet.
1982: -- Secured 1 gold medal & 1 bronze medal in the world junior meet at Seoul.
2 Silver medal in New Delhi Asian Games.
1983: -- Secured 1 gold medal & 1 silver medal in Asian Track & Field Meet At Kuwait
2 Gold in Int: national Invitation Meet at New Delhi 2 Gold in Int: national Invitation Meet at New Delhi
1984: -- Secured 1 gold medal in Int: national meet at Inglewood U.S.A
Participated in the Los Angeles Olympics Games in the 400 M.H and missed a Bronze medal by 1/ 100 Th of a second. 7th place in the 4x 400 mt: relay 3 Gold medals in the Eight nations Int: Invitation meet Singapore 4th place in 400.M.H in the Int: national Invitation Meet at Tokyo
1985: -- Secured 2 Gold & 2 Silver medal in the World Railway meet at Olomog,in Czheck republic and was adjudged as the Best Railway Athlete. It was the first time in the history of Indian Railways that any Indian athlete,male or female achieved this honor for Indian Railways.
5th place in the World Grand Prix Meet at Prague in 400 m.hurdles Bronze Medal in the World Grand Prix Meet at London in 400m.h. Silver Medal in the World Grand Prix Meet at Britslawa in 400m. 4the place World Grand Prix Meet at Paris in 400 m. Bronze Medal in the World Grand Prix Meet at Budapest in 400m. Silver Medal in the World Grand Prix Meet at London Silver Medal in the World Grand Prix Meet at Ostrawa 5th place in 400.M.H. & 4th place in 400.Metres in World Cup Championship held in Canberra. 5 Gold Medals & 1 Bronze Medal in Asian Track & Field Meet at Jakarta.
1986: -- 6th place in the 400 m. in Good Will Games at Moscow.
4 Gold medals & 1 Silver medal in the Asian Games at Seoul. 1 Gold medal in the Malaysian Open Athletic Meet. 3 Gold Medals in Lions Athletic Meet at Singapore. 2 Gold Medals in Four Nations Int: National Invitation Meet at New Delhi.
1987: -- Secured 3 Gold medals & 2 Silver medals in the Asian Track & field Meet at Singapore.
2 Gold medals in the Malaysian open athletic meet at Kuala Lumpur 3 Gold medals in the Int: invitation meet at a New Delhi. 5 Gold medals in the South Asian Federation Games at Calcutta. Parcipated in the World Champion Ship OF Athletics in Rome.She became the first Indian to run in the semi finals of 400 m.hurdles.}
1988: -- 3 gold medals in the Singapore Open athletic meet at Singapore.
2 Gold medals in Pre-Olympics Intl athletic meet at New Delhi. Participated in the Seoul Olympics 400m Hurdles.
1989: -- 4 gold medals& 2 silver medals in the Asian Track Field Meet At New Delhi
3 gold medals in the Intl Invitation Meet at Calcutta 4 gold medals in the Malayasian Open Athletic Meet.
1990: -- 3 silver medals in the Beijing Asian Games
1994: -- 1 silver medal in the Hiroshima Asian Games.
1 bronze medal in the Intl Permit Meet at Pune.
1995: -- 1 bronze medal in the SAF Games at Chennai
1 bronze medal in the Intl Permit Meet at Pune.
1996: -- Participated in the Atlanta Olympics Games.
1 silver medal in the Intl Permit Meet at Pune.
1997: -- 1 gold medal in the Intl Permit Meet at Patiala.
1998: -- 1 gold medal,1 silver medal and 2 bronze medal in the Asian Track Field Meet at Fukoka.
2 gold medals & 1 silver medal in the Raja Bhalendra Singh Intl Athletic meet at New Delhi.
Participated in the Bangkok Asian Games 1 silver medal awarded in the 4x400 mt.Relay as member
1999: -- 1 gold medal & 2 silver medals in the SAF Games at Kathmandu
1 gold medal in the Raja Bhalendra Singh Intl Athletic meet at New Delhi.

[edit] World Record
During the 1985 Asian Track & Field Meet at Jakarta, Indonesia, Usha secured 5 gold medals in the 100, 200, and 400 meter sprints, the 400 meter hurdles, and the 4 x 400 meter relay. She also earned a bronze medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay. This is the current record for most gold medals earned by a female in a single track meet.[citation needed]

[edit] Awards and Honors
Recipient of Arjuna Award ,1984.
Greatest women athlete, in 1985 Jakarta Asian Athletic Meet.
Padma Sree in 1984.
Best Athlete in Asia Award in 1984,1985,1986,1987,and 1989.
Marshal Tito award for the best railway sportsperson in 1984,1985,1989 and 1990
1986 Seoul Asian Games, won the Adidas Golden Shoe Award for the best athlete
Thirty International Awards, for her excellence in Athletics.
Kerala Sports Journalists Award for the year 1999.
World Trophy for best Athlete 1985, 1986

great actor of india

Kamal Haasan
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Kamal Haasan
Kamal in Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (2006)
Born
Kamal HaasanNovember 7, 1954 (1954-11-07) (age 54)Paramakudi, India
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1960 - present
[show]Awards won
Filmfare Awards
19-time award winner
National Film Awards
4-time award winner
Other awards
For a full list, please see List of Kamal Haasan's awards, honours and recognitions.
Kamal Haasan (born November 7, 1954 in Paramakudi, India) well known as Universal Hero by the fans, Tamilian by birth, is an Indian film actor and director, considered among the leading method actors of Tamil cinema.[1][2] Hassan is known for winning several Indian film awards, including National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards, and has the distinction of being the actor with the most number of films submitted by India in contest for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In addition to acting and directing, he is a screenwriter, lyricist, playback singer and choreographer. His film production company, Rajkamal International, has produced several of his films.
Kamal Haasan's breakthrough into lead acting came with his role in the 1975 drama, Apoorva Raagangal, in which he played a rebellious youth in love with an older woman. He secured his first Indian National Film Award for his portrayal of a guileless school teacher who tends a child-like amnesiac in 1982's Moondram Pirai. He was particularly noted for his performance in Mani Ratnam's Godfatheresque Nayagan (1987), which was ranked by Time magazine as one of the 100 best films of all-time.[3]
Contents[hide]
1 Biography
1.1 Early career: 1960s – early 1970s
1.2 Classic period: 1970s – 1980s
1.3 The 1990s
1.4 2000s: Hey Ram and onwards
2 Personal life
3 Awards
4 Notable filmography
5 External links
6 References
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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early career: 1960s – early 1970s
Kamal Haasan made his film debut as a 6-year-old child artiste, in the 1960 film, Kalathur Kannamma, directed by A. Bhimsingh. He was cast along with the veteran Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan in the film, which won him the National Film Award for Best Child Artist. He acted as a child actor in five other Tamil films in the subsequent few years co-starring with popular actors at the era, including Sivaji Ganesan and M. G. Ramachandran.
Following a nine year hiatus from films, to concentrate on his education, Haasan returned with a series of low budget films in 1972, in all of which he played supporting roles to more established actors. These films included roles in Arangetram and Sollathaan Ninaikkiren, both co-starring Sivakumar. His final supporting role before establishing himself as a lead actor was in Naan Avanillai, which became a trendsetter for some of Haasan's later ventures.

[edit] Classic period: 1970s – 1980s
Kamal Haasan first received a regional Filmfare Award for acting for his role in the Malayalam film Kanyakumari (1974). In the next four years, he won six regional Best Actor Filmfare Awards, including four consecutive Best Tamil Actor Awards. After a series of less-successful films, his acted in director K. Balachander's Apoorva Raagangal, an exploration of age-gap relationships; the film is also known for introducing another prominent Tamil actor, Rajinikanth.The 1970s, especially between the mid- and late 1970s, was a period that saw Kamal Haasan's frequent collaboration with K. Balachander, who also cast him in many of his socially-themed films such as Avargal (1977). The film won Haasan his first Filmfare Best Tamil Actor Award. In 1976, Haasan appeared in the drama Moondru Mudichu with Rajinikanth and Sridevi, another K. Balachander film, Manmadha Leelai, and Oru Oodhappu Kan Simittugiradhu, which won him his second consecutive Best Actor Award. 16 Vayathinile won him his third consecutive award, where he appeared as an mentally ill villager, once again alongside Rajinikanth and Sridevi. The fourth consecutive award came with Sigappu Rojakal in which he appeared as an anti-hero who is a psychopathic sexual killer. Furthermore in the late seventies, Haasan appeared in successful films such as the comedy, Ninaithale Inikkum and the horror film, Neeya.
Following his increased prominence in the latter half of the 1970s, Haasan was considered a major Tamil film star at the turn of the decade. His popular pairing with the actress Sridevi continued with Guru and Varumayin Niram Sigappu in 1980. Both films were blockbuster successes for these actors. Kamal Haasan also made guest/cameo appearances, such as in the Rajinikanth film Thillu Mullu; Rajinikanth had previously appeared in some of Kamal Haasans previous films. Haasan's 100th career film appearance was in 1981's Raja Paarvai, which also marked his debut in film production. Despite this film's relatively poor reception at the cinemas, his portrayal of a blind session violinist earned him a Filmfare Award. His next acting role, in Ek Duuje Ke Liye, became his first Hindi-language film. It was the remake of his previous Telugu-language film, Maro Charithra by K. Balachandar. Following a year of starring in commercially-oriented films, Haasan won his first of three National Awards for Best Actor with his portrayal of a school teacher who looks after a mentally retarded girl in Balu Mahendra's Moondram Pirai. Till 1985, Haasan began to appear in more Hindi language films, which went relatively unnoticed but his performance in Saagar, won him both the Filmfare Best Actor Award as well as the Best Supporting Actor Award, making him the first actor to win both awards for a single film in the award's history. Saagar portayed him alongisde Rishi Kapoor both of whom were pinning for a woman, but Haasan ultimately loses out. Haasan also appeared in Geraftaar, a film which failed to make an impact upon release, but today is known for featuring three prominent actors in Indian cinema: Amitabh Bachchan, Rajinikanth and Haasan. He featured in Tamil cinema's first sequel Japanil Kalyanaraman, which followed up his previous, Kalyanaraman as well as acting in Uruvangal Maralam co-starring Sivaji Ganesan and Rajinikanth.
In the mid-1980's, Haasan appeared in two legendary Telugu language films, Sagara Sangamam and Swathi Muthyam with director, Kasinadhuni Viswanath. The latter film was India's representative for the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film in 1986. Whilst, the former film portrayed Haasan as a drunkard classical dancer, Swathi Muthyam portrays him as an autistic person attempting to change society. Following more successful film such as Punnagai Mannan, in which he portrays dual roles including a satire of Charlie Chaplin and Vetri Vizha as an amnesiac, Haasan's most worldwide recognized role came in Mani Rathnam's 1987, trendsetter, Nayagan. Nayagan, commonly referred to "The Godfather" of Tamil cinema, portrays the life of an underworld don in Bombay. The story revolves around the life of a real-life underworld don called Varadarajan Mudaliar, whilst sympathetically depicting the struggle of South Indians living in Mumbai. The film helped Kamal Haasan secure a Indian National Award for his performance and Nayagan was nominated by India as its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards in 1987 as well as being included in the Time top 100 movies list. In 1988, Haasan appeared in his only silent film to date; appearing in the black comedy, Pushpak, which was dubbed as a "speechless classic" with reviewers stating that "Haasan surpasses himself", delivering an all time best performance. Apoorva Sagodharargal became Haasan's first attempt at playing a triple role. The commercial film portrayed him in a role as a dwarf, making it the first time that an actor had attempted to play such a role. He then attempted dual roles in Indrudu Chandrudu and its Tamil remake, winning the regional Best Actor Award for his performance.

[edit] The 1990s

Kamal Haasan in his yet-to-be-completed Marudhanayagam
1991's Michael Madhana Kamarajan, saw Haasan go one step further, acting in four different roles as quadruplets, the film started an ongoing collabaration for comedy films between Haasan and Crazy Mohan, a dialogue writer. Haasan won successive best actor awards for his portrayal of the protoganist in Guna and in Thevar Magan, where he played the son of noted actor, Sivaji Ganesan. The 1990s saw Kamal breaking out of the romantic hero mould to explore some more gritty, unconventional roles. Following a series of unsuccessful projects in the mid-1990s, with experimentals such as Singaravelan, Maharasan and Kalaignan; Haasan began to appear in comedies such as Sathi Leelavathi, based on the English film, She-Devil as well as renewing his collobaration with Kasinadhuni Viswanath in his last Telugu language film till date, Subha Sankalpam. In 1996, Haasan starred in the police cop story, Kuruthipunal, which met with a strong critical reception is recognised by some to have set high benchmarks for other action films in that period. His success in Kuruthipunal, was followed by his third National Film Award for Best Actor in Indian. Playing dual roles of a freedom fighter and his untrustful son, the film also won Haasan regional awards and plaudits for his portrayal in the blockbuster. Haasan's performance was described as "superb" by critics, who also dubbed the "The biggest film ever made on the Indian Screen".
Haasan appeared as a woman in Avvai Shanmughi, which was inspired by the comedy flick, Mrs. Doubtfire, bringing him praise for his portrayal. In 1997, Haasan began his maiden directorial venture, the biopic of Mohammed Yusuf Khan, Marudhanayagam. However the film, which was started by Queen Elizabeth II, failed to complete its schedules with only half an hour and a trailer being recorded during its shoot. The film's ambitious budget forced Haasan to abandon the project at the time; if made, the film would have been been the costliest film ever made in Asia. Haasan soon made his debut as director with a remake of Avvai Shanmughi in Hindi titled Chachi 420, which became a success upon release. Kamal Haasan's direction was praised as "fantastic" and that he "handles every scene with precision" with "the fine tuning it takes to become a wonderful director", whilst his performance was applauded as "nothing less than brilliance".

[edit] 2000s: Hey Ram and onwards

Kamal Haasan pictured with Manisha Koirala in Aalavandhan
Following a two year hiatus in Indian cinema, Haasan opted against reviving his magnum opus, Marudhanayagam and filmed his second directorial venture, Hey Ram, a period drama told in flashback with a semi-fictional plot centering around India's Partition and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Haasan also donned technical roles as the writer, the lyricist and the choreogrpaher as well as producing the film under his home banner. The bilingual venture, starring himself in the lead role alongside Shahrukh Khan and Rani Mukerji failed to become successful commercially but became critically acclaimed. Haasan was praised for his "technical wizardry" and acting, but critics called the film "hard to categorize" and "too controversial". His following film, the much-hyped Aalavandhan, where he portrayed two distinct roles; of one, he had his head tonsured and gained ten kilograms for also failed to live up to expectations at the box office.
Following a series of successful comedies in Thenali, Panchathantiram and Pammal K. Sambandam and a couple of guest appearances, Haasan directed his third feature film in Virumaandi. Virumaandi, became the first Tamil film to feature different sides of the story, surrounding the controversy of the death penalty. Haasan's directorial work earned reviews that claimed it was "technical excellence in every sphere", however the film only broke even at the box-office, failing to capitalize on its publicity. Haasan also appeared in Anbe Sivam alongside close friend, Madhavan, in a film he was claimed to have ghost-directed. Priyadarshan, who started the film departed allowing commercial director Sundar C make a film unknown to his usual genre; furthermore the film also preached views of atheism, which Haasan is renowned for following. Anbe Sivam told the story of Nallasivam, enacted by Haasan as an idealist, social activist and communist, whose past is poignant and present moving. Kamal Haasan's performance was highly lauded by critics with The Hindu stating that Haasan "has once again done Tamil cinema proud", however in contrast, the film failed to become a success, with Haasan later lashing out at award judges, claiming he deserved credit for his script writing and acting.
Haasan appeared in the remake film, Vasool Raja alongside Sneha, which triumphed at the box-office, whilst his following film, Mumbai Express, which he had written for flopped at the box-office, as it opened with the record-breaking Rajinikanth starrer, Chandramukhi. In 2006, Haasan's long delayed project, Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu became a blockbuster at the box office. Gautham Menon's Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu was Haasan's first cop film in a decade since Kuruthipunal, earning his portrayal as the New York detective rave reviews. His latest release, Dasavathaaram is the longest film taken for Kamal Haasan to complete. Pairing opposite Asin Thottumkal, Haasan reprises ten roles in the film, a couple of which are claimed to have taken nearly four hours to apply the correct make-up on. The film, which Haasan had to go to court to sort out story legalities, was released in June 13, 2008 and became the most expensive Indian film to date, passing the mark of Sivaji: The Boss, which Dasavathaaram was initially to release against simultaneously. The film, upon release became one of the most successful Tamil films ever.
Following the completion of Dasavathaaram, Haasan is set to direct his fourth directorial venture under the combined production of Pyramid Saimira and Raaj Kamal Productions. The film titled Marmayogi, is believed to be set in the 7th century and feature several leading stars in the lead roles alongside Haasan. The film was announced with a higher budget than Dasavathaaram and the upcoming science-fiction Rajinikanth starrer, Endhiran, which Marmayogi has been dubbed to compete against. Haasan has still expressed desire in completing his magnum opus, Marudhanayagam if producers will to help him out, however the film if released will be spanned at a duration of over nearly fifteen years, failing to maintain consistency in technology. Due to some conditions, Hassan's planned film Marmayogi starring himself, Daggubati Venkatesh, Trisha Krishnan, and etc. was cancelled where as Trisha refused to many telugu and tamil projects to act in this film. Now Venkatesh would immediatly be starting his new film. Marmayogi was supposed to made as a trilingual in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi

[edit] Personal life

Kamal Haasan with his daughter, Shruthi Haasan.
Despite his much praised and applauded film career, his personal life had some setbacks which have been exploited by the media. His marital strifes were more in the limelight in his latter years than the movies he acted or made. He has married actresses: Vani Ganapathi first and later Sarika which bore two children: Akshara Haasan and Shruthi Haasan. He divorced her and currently living-in with Gauthami another famous Indian film actress of yester years.

[edit] Awards
Main article: List of Kamal Haasan's awards, honours and recognitions

[edit] Notable filmography
Further information: Kamal Haasan filmography
Year
Title
Role(s)
Language
Notes
1960
Kalathur Kannamma
Selvam
Tamil
Winner: National Film Award for Best Child Artist
1975
Apoorva Raagangal
Prasanna
Tamil
Winner: Filmfare Best Tamil Actor Award
1977
16 Vayathinile
Chappani
Tamil
Winner: Filmfare Best Tamil Actor Award
1982
Moondram Pirai
Srinivasan
Tamil
Winner: National Film Award for Best Actor
1983
Sagara Sangamam
Balakrishna
Telugu
Winner: Filmfare Best Telugu Actor AwardWinner: Nandi Award for Best Actor
1985
Sagar
Raja
Hindi
Winner: Filmfare Best Actor Award
1987
Nayagan
Velu Nayakkar
Tamil
Winner: National Film Award for Best Actor
1988
Pushpak
Pushpak
Silent
Winner: Filmfare Best Kannada Actor Award
1989
Apoorva Sagodharargal
SedhupathyRajaAppu
Tamil
Portrayed three roles; one was a dwarf
1991
Michael Madhana Kamarajan
MichaelMadhanKameshwaranRajan
Tamil
Portrayed four rolesScripted by Kamal HaasanProduced by Kamal Haasan
1992
Thevar Magan
Shakthivelu Thevar
Tamil
Winner: Filmfare Best Tamil Actor AwardProduced by Kamal HaasanScripted by Bharathan, a popular malayalam film director.
1996
Indian
Senapathy BoseChandra Bose
Tamil
Portrayed a dual roleWinner: National Film Award for Best ActorWinner: Filmfare Best Tamil Actor Award
1997
Avvai Shanmugi
Avvai ShanmugiPandiyan
Tamil
Portrayed a dual roleRemade in Hindi as Chachi 420
1998
Chachi 420
Jaiprakash PaswanLakshmi Godbhole
Hindi
Portrayed a dual roleProduced by Kamal HaasanScripted by Kamal HaasanDirected by Kamal Haasan
2000
Hey Ram
Saket Ram
Tamil
Winner: Filmfare Best Tamil Actor AwardSimultaneously made into Hindi as Hey RamProduced by Kamal HaasanScripted by Kamal HaasanDirected by Kamal Haasan
2001
Aalavandhan
Vijay KumarNandhu Kumar
Tamil
Portrayed a dual role
2003
Anbe Sivam
Nalla Sivam
Tamil
Scripted by Kamal Haasan
2004
Virumaandi
Virumaandi
Tamil
Produced by Kamal HaasanScripted by Kamal HaasanDirected by Kamal Haasan
2006
Vettaiyadu Vilayadu
Raghavan
Tamil
2008
Dasavathaaram
Rangaraja NambiGovind RamaswamyChristian FletcherBalram NaiduKrishnaveniVincent PoovaraghanKalifullah KhanAvtaar SinghGeorge W. BushShingen Narahasi
Tamil
Portrayed 10 different rolesStory, Screenplay and Scripted by Kamal Haasan