Old questions....

I always had a few questions for this Ulaga Nayagan "Kamal Hassan". Like most things, my opinion on things have always taken a complete u-turn. I was a Rajini fan until I was 14 years old. I liked the way he jumped in the air to beat the baddies and his renditions like "Evan en mele modhalla kai vekkurano..." which in English roughly means "The first guy to touch me, will spit out the milk he drank from his mother in his childhood days" (What would you say for this figure of speech?). Teenage made me a Kamal fan because he was the one to do all the love antics in innumerable movies. Again a few years ago when this talk of entering politics came to Rajni, I swayed back and became a Rajini fan simply because of his simplicity and mannerisms. Now, If you ask me I do not have much to choose between them. To keep it simple, I am a bigtime fan of both and unlike most experts I feel both are equally talented (just that the execution differed).....

Ok..back to the topic. There is a lot of explanations on how he did the makeup for his many roles these days. But I still do not know how he managed Appu Raja in the 90s without much technology and graphics. Here is what the veteran had to say "I have never discussed how we shot the dwarf. It would be like a woman explaining what’s inside her bra.". It took me a good two minutes to stop laughing hearing this line. But such is the man......

Incase, you are into reading old interviews by actors, here is the original source. Kamal picks his top 10 challenging roles that he had to.......