Kamal Haasan is one of Indian cinema's most versatile and celebrated figures, with a career spanning over six decades and 230+ films across Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, and other languages. A child actor who debuted in 1960, he evolved into a method actor, director, producer, and screenwriter widely regarded as a titan of Tamil and Indian cinema. Beyond films, he founded the political party Makkal Needhi Maiam in 2018 and was elected to India's Rajya Sabha in 2025.