Padma Shri Kamal Haasan attributes his youthful look to good genes and talks to BT about movies, Rajinikanth et al

Meena Iyer (BOMBAY TIMES; June 16, 2012)

 

Chennai burns at a sweltering 38°C. But Kamal Haasan’s office cabin is freezing. The actor jokes, “I’m not material for cold storage but I like the temperatures that way.’ His Vishwaroop is in its final stages of mixing. The trade says it will release in August. The filmmaker says, “I’ll let you know soon.” Between cups of hot Kumbakonam degree coffee, he finds time for a quick chat.

Excerpts from the interview:

Is Vishwaroop (Hindi version) / Vishwaroopam (Tamil version) which has been written, produced and directed by you, your most ambitious project? I’m borrowing a line from writer-filmmaker Ingmar Bergman here. He said, ‘Every time I do a film I think this is the last film’. It could be. We don’t really know. Hypothetically, what would I do if this were my last film? I don’t know if I will be allowed to make another film. Anything unforeseen can happen. So every film that I make, I just put everything I have in it.

You see it may not be the last film that the audience is seeing. But for an actor, every film he does, should be done in that spirit, because that’s the only way to approach your work. I will not kill myself over a film. But I adopt a very motherly attitude to every film of mine. I want to feed it, nurture it, and give it all the emotion I have. So many things can go wrong even if you are the top More >