Welcome to the Indian Cinema Greatest actor's Padmasree Kamal Hassan (s) eGroup. Dr Kamal Haasan (b. November 7, 1954, Paramakkudi, Ramnad district, Tamil Nadu, India) is a well known Indian actor working mainly in the South Indian film industry. He has acted in movies made in four of the major South Indian languages - Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam and has made inroads into the North Indian movie industry via Hindi films as well. He has been awarded the fourth highest recognition given to Indian civilians - the Padmashri in 1992. He has been conferred an honorary doctorate by Sathyabama Deemed University, Chennai in 2005.[1] He is titled onscreen as Universal Hero.