In 1981, to realise his dreams, he entered into film production with a remarkable movie-'Raja Parvai'. 'Varumaiyin Niram Sigappu' was another Balachander film, in which he played an unemployed youth, in search of job in N.Delhi. It was a b&w film with Rajini and Sripriya, and one of the earliest film in Kamal's journey towards quality cinema. The first was a crime thriller with a suave killer in Kamal, and in the next he was a documentary director with sympathy towards women. Two of the films 'Sigappu Rojakkal' by Bharathiraja and 'Aval Appadiththan' by Rudraiyya were noteworthy. I remember, for a Deepavali, his four films got released on a single day. The romance between two youths from different state background was later remade in Hindi also as 'Ek Dhuje ke liye' which was his grand entry to Bollywood as a hero. In the same year 'Maro charitra' was released in Telugu, and this K.Balachander movie smashed all records of box office. His stint in experimenting with make up must have started in 1978 with Cinematographer A.Vincent's 'Vayanadan Thamban'(mal), which was very crude to today's standards. The film was 'Kokila' in Kannada and in b&w, and in this film he had sexual relationship with the maid servant. In the same year1977, Balu Mahendra launched his first film as a director. He played a crippled village idiot along with Sridevi and Rajini. In 'Vaanambadi' he was Sheela's 7 year old son, and in 'Eetta' he was having hot sex with her.Īfter acting in innumerable films, his big break came in Bharathiraja's debut movie, '16 vayathinile'. In many of his early films, he was acting in such kind of films where he was either seduced by a sex starved widow or by an elderly woman, to name a few -'Rasaleela', 'Eetta' 'Unarchigal' etc. Romance between a young boy and an elderly lady was the hot story of this musical. 'Kanyakumari', 'Vishnu vijayam' and 'Rasaleela' gave new breaks to him, and even in Tamil 'Aboorva Ragangal' opened a new door for him. To act in meaningful movies, he was lucky to have plenty of malayalam friends, who launched him in their movies.
His early films portrayed him as a playboy, always dancing with a peculiar style with a mike in hand, and if you see them now, you can find the thirst to achieve, in him. He was given some important roles in K.Balachander's films. director, and began to act in small roles in movies during his late teens. He skipped school, learnt classical dance, acted in Avvai Shanmugham's drama troupe, became an asst. Born in a family of lawyer dad and brothers, Kamal was let off for art, it seems. And in his very second film he was in a dual role. As a child artist, he acted in a very few films, but all with the then super stars like M.G.R., Sivaji, Gemini, S.S.Rajendran and Sathyan.
He was just six, when he acted in his first film 'Kalathur Kannamma'.
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