Persons who inspired me-2

The very next person after Sujatha who inspired me a lot is Dr. Kamal Hassan. From my childhood he is inspiring me a lot. But I didn’t recognize or understood the thoughts his movies carries, even I didn’t figure out he is a great actor. Even while seeing his famous movie “Thevarmagan” I didn’t realize about his performance. That might be due to the reason of his liveliness with the character. The movie which made me to turn my attention on him and made me to wonder about him is “AnbeSivam”. I think it is the first Tamil cinema which created a great impact on me. After seeing his performance and the thoughts he came around in that movie, I did a time travel by seeing all his previous classic movies.



The most things I hear about him in my surrounding is his movies and thoughts are advanced and that is the reason it is not understandable. I couldn’t understand this, because he never takes movies in any unknown language. For example if we know Indian history very well we can understand his Heyram easily. So I thought and also came to a conclusion that for our lack of knowledge we should not blame a genius. He entered the cinema industry as a choreographer, Balachander made him an assistant director to him and then to an actor.

I don’t know how he shaped his career as an actor, but I do aware about his script and dialogue writing skills. So when considering his scripts like Guna, Alavandhan, Anbesivam, Thevarmagan, Heyram, Dasavatharam all were in different genres. He handles every genre with ease which is not possible for many versatile scriptwriters in Tamil cinema. I don’t know how many of them are aware about Thevarmagan is an inspiration from Hollywood’s classic The Godfather. His “AnbeSivam” is a classic and masterpiece in Tamil cinema.

But I loved Dasavatharam more than anything from his other movies as a script writer. Because in it he interludes so many things like chaos theory, randomness theory, atheism, theism, international politics, science and finally history. To write a script with this much thing is really a difficult one, but he made it quite comfortably. More than script, the dialogues are so lively and great one in a Tamil movie after a long time. Particularly the initial dialogues of rangaraja nambi are awesome. Only this movie helped me to know about chaos theory and randomness theory.

But recently his new facet is revealed to me by Vijay TV. It is nothing other than his literature skills. I really took a long time to understand this and finally felt ashamed about myself for not understanding a poem on my mother tongue.

The things I got inspired from him are to learn a lot of things and use those knowledge u posses by learning to teach others. The important thing I learnt is, know about you more and love yourself a lot.