Kamal Haasan

An unemployed youth (Kamal) dreams of living well. One evening, he finds a drunken industrialist (Sameer Khakkar) passed out in a gutter, and takes the opportunity to switch places with him. He finds love, intrigue, and the good life in his new home, Pushpak, a hotel where the industrialist was booked in. A silent masterpiece. (imdb)

The film starts with Saketh Ram as a very old man and almost immediately goes into flashback. As a young man he is among his friends, in conviviality. He has taken a Bengali wife, Aparna, and everything is wonderful in his life. But the year is 1946, and the imminent independence of India from British suzerainty is complicated by religious antagonism between the Hindu majority and the large Muslim minority... (imdb)

Circa the British rule in India, a man named Senapathy decides to rebel against the British in a violent way, learns a rare martial art that enables him to kill with his bare hands, and travels to Singapore, joins the Indian Liberation Army formed by renowned Subhash Chandra Bose, is one of the soldier's to engage the British into war... (imdb)

Sathyaa (Kamal Hassan), a young man, along with his friends fights the injustice and corruption in his society. This causes him to lock horns with the corrupt local M.L.A. and his goons. Amala plays Sathyaa's love interest Geetha and the movie has hit songs by Ilayaraja.

A small boy (Ratnavelu) from Tamilnadu sees his father, a labor leader, killed in cold blood by a policeman. He kills the policeman and runs away to the city of Bombay. From there, the story traces his ascent to become a mafia chief (Velu Naicker), the breakup and deaths in his family, and then till his assasination at the hands of the lunatic son of another policeman who he killed in a fight. (imdb)

A police officer (Kamal Haasan) must choose between his family and duty, when members of a terror group take his wife and child hostage and pressure him to betray officers from his department. Good thriller, arguably better than the film it was remade from, Govind Nihalani's Droh Kaal. (imdb)

The picture is about a series of comic clashes between Nalla Sivam (Kamal Haasan), a wise-cracking, handicapped communist and Anbarasu (R. Madhavan), an arrogant young advertisement filmmaker, that occur when both happen to get stuck with each other on their problem-filled trip home to Chennai from Bhubaneshwar.

A truly great film, Pathinaru Vayathinile (or 16 Vayathinile) is about the vulnerability of a woman, and yet her strength: at the same time, she can change the life of a man through her love, and she can mar her own life by falling for the wrong man in the first place. (dearcinema.com)

Balakrishna (Kamal Hassan) is an economically disadvantaged but multi-talented dancer, adept at the Indian classical dances . His simple and honest soul does not permit him to attain professional success in the commercial world that requires a certain level of moral laxness. Madhavi (Jayaprada), a wealthy young woman and a patron of the dances, notices his talent and acts as his benefactress, helping him secure his life-long opportunity of participating in a high-level classical dance festival. (Wikipedia)

A Police Officer investigates a series of brutal rapes and murders, with the culprits seeming to cover more than one country. (imdb)

Guna (Kamal Hasan) is a mentally challenged person who, while undergoing treatment in a mental asylum, gets told by someone in the asylum about a fictitious character named Abirami. Guna starts obsessing with the idea of finding Abirami and marrying her. After coming out of the asylum, he believes the story to be true and searches for his Abirami. One day, in the midst of being an unwilling partner to a robbery at a temple, he mistakes a rich girl Roshini (Roshini) to be Abirami and kidnaps her.

M. Madhava Menon (Thilakan), a powerful politico, destroys the life & family of a young man, Johnson (Kamal Hassan), for having a love affair with his daughter Renu (Urmila Matondkar). Years later, Johnson returns to take revenge on Madhava Menon, now the Chief Minister of Kerala. Using brains rather than brawns, he enlists the help of an apery artist Jayaram (Jayaram), & they start to intercept the CM's radio & TV broadcasts to substitute their own versions, to destroy the CM's political image.

Dr. Selvam joins Saktivel college with the joint responsibility of History professor and Vice Principal. Seeing that the college is under the grips of Ramesh (Reghu), son of dreaded politico Veluchamy & their goons, Selvam fights back. Meanwhile, English professor Vasanthi (Gautami) develops a soft corner for Selvam.

Virumaandi (Kamal Hassan) lives a lighthearted lifestyle, never taking things very seriously. Kothala Thevar (Pasupathy), a big name in town, has set his sights on Virumaandi's property and wants it so badly that he'll hand over his own niece, Annalakshmi (Abhirami), in exchange for it. What Virumaandi doesn't realize is that Kothala is only using him to get back at his nemesis Nallamanaicker (Napolean), prompting a battle for honor and freedom. (Netflix)

After a nearly fatal car accident erases her memory, party girl Bhagyalakshmi (Sridevi), now with the mental growth of only a 6-year-old, gets lured into a brothel, but Sreenivasan aka Cheenu, a schoolteacher takes pity on her & takes her away with him to Ooty. Over time, the two forge a special relationship & Bhagyalakshmi becomes a vital part of Cheenu's life, unbeknown to the fact that the authorities were on the hunt for the missing girl.

Although married to Leelavathi (Kalpana), Arunuchalam aka Arun (Ramesh Aravind) embarks on a love affair with the much younger, unmarried & pretty Priya (Heera Rajgopal). During a trip to Bangalore, he runs into an old friend, Dr. Shaktivel (Kamal Hassan), to whom he is forced to reveal his illicit affair, & who promises to keep it a secret. However, a video taken by Shaktivel's son gives away the secret to Leelavathi. Forcing Arun out of the house, she vows to end his relationship with Priya.

Krishnaswamy (Kamal Hassan), a village simple & widower living with his daughter Kaveri (Mahanadhi Shobana), son Bharani & mother-in-law, gets duped into opening a chit fund by con man Dhanush (Cochin Hanifa). Dhanush absconds with the deposits & Krishna is blamed & jailed. Behind bars, Krishna has to deal with the atrocities of the prison & after his release, he learns that his kids are missing. With ex-cellmate Iyer (Poornam) & his daughter Yamuna's (Sukanya) help, he goes in search of them.

In the film, Haasan appears in ten different roles. The film revolves around bringing together the lives of several individuals during the week prior to the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Primarily, the story revolves around a research scientist who loses a biological weapon of mass destruction in the United States of America. The weapon is also sought by an ex-CIA officer for his own use. (Wikipedia)

The film depicts an about to retire police commissioner narrating a set of events that happened one day that do not exist in any written records. An unnamed man (Kamal Haasan) places bombs strategically at several places. He calls up Marar (Mohanlal), police commissioner informing about the bombs. He wants to negotiate terms in return for divulging information about the bomb...

A young woman receives a head injury in an automobile accident and becomes like a six-year-old. She leaves the hospital unattended and ends up in a brothel. She is rescued by a young man who takes her to his home in the mountains. Meanwhile, her parents and the police are looking for her, and just as she is cured, they come to take her back to Bombay (imdb)

Problem teen Pradeep Menon (Harish), whose father had died when he was young & who hated the very sight of his mom, after a string of initial spats with the new girl in school, Daisy Thomas (Sonia), falls in love with her. Just as he found a new meaning in life, tragedy strikes when Daisy is diagnosed with brain tumor. With her time running out, Daisy asks Pradeep for 3 wishes, which he sets out to fulfill.

A comedy of errors with identical quadruplets, separated at birth, coming together as adults. Quadruplets of a rich family are separated at birth by a jealous uncle. One of them ends up with the real father, and grows up to be a suave millionaire. The other three end up in various places: one becomes a fireman, another a wedding cook, and the last a thug. The thug is coincidentally hired to bump off the millionaire, who in the meantime switches places with the fireman. (imdb)

Sambandham (Kamal Haasan), a typical bejewelled, garish looking stunt master in film and a confirmed bachelor, tries to help his brother Anand (Abbas) who is caught in the quagmire of matrimony. Anand had fallen in love, eloped, and gotten married. His wife Malathi (Sneha) harasses her husband to no end on the advice of her friend, Janaki (Simran Bagga), a sworn spinster. Later, Kamal falls in love with Simran and takes steps to marry her.

A village cook Ramji (Madhavan) goes to Australia to become a chef at a multi-millionaire Indian's home. Unfortunately, the millionaire dies of indigestion the day Ramji arrives, leaving him jobless with an expired visa. Desperate to stay and earn, he starts working illegally as a cook, but to stay on, he needs to get legal.A solution comes up when Damayanthi (Geetu Mohandas), a free-spirited biker, agress to marry the docile cook for a price.

Thenali (Kamal) is a traumatized Sri Lankan Tamil, who has is beset by a variety of elaborate phobias. A psychiatrist Panchabutam (Delhi Ganesh), convinced that Thenali is impossible, refers him to rival shrink Kailash (Jayaram). The doctor takes an instant dislike to his new patient, while his wife (Devyani) and sister (Jyothika) take more of a liking to him than Kailash would like.

Honest police officer Sethupathi (Kamal) arrests four high profile crooks Dharmaraj (Nagesh), Francis (Delhi Ganesh), Nallasivam (Nasser) and Satyamoorthy(Jaishankar). They get out of jail, kill Sethupathi and poison his pregnant wife. She somehow gives birth to twins, who are separated and grow up as Appu (Kamal) a circus clown, and Raja (still Kamal) a mechanic. Eventually Appu finds out about his father's death and plots his vengeance.

Two friends, both with the name of Lingam, create a comedy of errors and consequent chaos with their girlfriends and their families.

Ram (Kamal Haasan) is a playboy pilot. His marriage to Mythili (Simran) disintegrates after a series of misunderstandings. To cheer him up, his buddies arrange for a steamy evening with a prostitute Maggie (Ramya), but things go wrong and the men are stuck with a dead body and a load of diamonds. The corpse disappears, and Ram's efforts to cover up the event are thwarted by a pesky father-in-law of one of the friends (Nagesh) who thinks Maggie was Ram's wife

Raju (Kamal Hassan), son of rich businessman Ambadi Rajasekharan Thampi (Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair) & a Hindu, falls in love with & marries poor Christian working girl Elsa (Zarina Wahab), against both families' opposition. Elsa supports Raju, who was still a college student, through college till he gets his IAS & becomes a sub-collector, after which they had plans to start a family. However, their dreams are shattered when Elsa gets diagnosed with terminal leukemia.

Impoverished goof-off Alavuddin (Kamal Hassan) comes into possession of a magic lamp, after a sorcerer (Jose Prakash) who tries to procure it through Alavuddin leaves him for dead in a booby-trapped cave. Rubbing the magic lamp summoned a genie Amir, with whose help, Alavuddin becomes a rich & important person & romances the princess of Bagdad, Roshni (Jayabharati), much to the chagrin of Kamaruddin (Rajnikanth), commander of the Bagdad armed forces, who had an eye on Roshni himself.

Four people from different backgrounds - rich businessman Roy (Jayaram), roughneck Amir (Jayasurya), musician Surya (Kunchako Boban) & medical student Gaury (Meera Jasmine), all cancer patients on their final stages of the disease, meet at a cancer care center & become deep friends. Wanting to enjoy their remaining days to the fullest, they embark on a foreign tour funded by Roy, with Malaysia as their first stop.

Vijay is the commander of an anti-terrorist squad. He gets engaged to Tejaswini who is pregnant with their child. Vijay's brother Nandu is psychotic and is in a mental asylum. Vijay takes Tejaswini to the asylum so that Nandu can meet her. In his delusions, Nandu decides that she is his evil stepmother. Nandu, who killed his stepmother when he was twelve, decides that he must kill Tejaswini to protect Vijay.

A devil-worshipper makes a pact with Shaitan where he provides the devil with female sacrifices in return for eternal youth, beauty and magical powers.

Vishwanathan, a Kathak dance teacher in New York, is in a rather happy marriage with Nirupama who is a nuclear oncologist. She hires a detective to keep a watch on her husband, who apparently ends up in a wrong place that reveals Vishwanathan's true idendity.

Hindi-speaking collegian Sapna lives a wealthy lifestyle in Dona Paula, near Panaji, Goa, India, along with her Professor dad, Kundanlal, and mom. Their immediate neighbors are Tamil-speaking vegetarian tenants, V. Sivaramakrishan, his wife, Vandana and son, Vasudevan, and detest the Kundanlals' meat-eating habits. Both families are aghast with surprise and anger when they find out that Sapna and Vasudevan are in love with each other. (imdb)

Suyambu Lingam (Kamal Haasan), a cable TV operator in the small mountainous village of Papanasam, spends his time watching every movie he can get his hands on & derives his world knowledge from them. He puts his ingenuity & knowledge to the test when his wife Rani (Gautami) & daughter Selvi (Niveda Thomas) inadvertently commit a murder, as he covers up the crime & equips his family to weather the storm of a brutal police investigation.

Jaiprakash Paswan works in the film industry as a dance assistant. His wife Janki has divorced him and has been granted the custody of their daughter Bharati. Since Jaiprakash is not allowed by his erstwhile father-in-law Durgaprasad Bharadwaj to meet Bharati, he hatches a plan. He dresses up as a woman, Laxmi Godbole in the day and is employed as Bharati's nanny. (imdb)

The story of a modern superstar overlaps with that of an eighth-century character he plays. (imdb)

C.K. Diwakar (Kamal Haasan), a cop with a connection to the criminal underworld, finds his secret life exposed when he & his partner are caught stealing cocaine from a powerful drug dealer, Vittal Rao (Prakash Raj), a move that puts his son Vasu's (Amaan) life in jeopardy, after Rao kidnaps Vasu & holds him hostage.

After having spent his entire life in Bombay's Dharavi slums, Digamber feels it is time that he takes steps to improve his lifestyle. He, along with two other slum-dwellers, plot to kidnap the only son (Shravan) of a wealthy businessman, Kishore Mehta. Things do not go as planned as one of their partners gets hospitalized when he gets a reaction from locally brewed alcohol. Since this plot involves three males, Avinash, a deaf, but dare-devil motorcycle rider is recruited. (imdb)

Chandramohan Azad (Jeetendra) is an employee and a union leader. His zeal and hard-work is detested by some of his fellow-workers and his employer, Sinha (Pincho Kapoor). He is framed for the murder of a fellow union worker and sentenced to jail for several years. After his release, he finds out that his brother-in-law, Deshbandhu (Utpal Dutt) is an MLA, and his sister (Seema Deo) is content with the way the things are. (imdb)

Remake of Balachander's Tamil hit Varumayin Niram Sivappu, Kamal Haasan reprises his role as Raja, a graduate looking for work in capital, sharing a small home with two other unemployed youth. He falls in love with a struggling actress, whose life is likewise wretched. Fairly unrelenting grim view of urban unemployment, with the usual dose of Balachander moralizing. The Tamil version with Bharati poems was somewhat more interesting. An interesting study of the perception of government. (imdb)

The movie revolves around the trials and tribulations of Anu (Sujatha). Anu is a happy-go-lucky girl who is in love with her boyfriend. Her life changes when her father gets transferred to Mumbai (then Bombay). Her love life falls apart as she gets no response to any of her letters from her love. In addition, her father becomes seriously ill. Her father's office colleague, Ramanathan (Rajnikanth), becomes the new pillar of support for her in these tough times.

The story is of a mentally slow man, whose life is recapped to his grand-daughter. How he meets his wife (who was a widow), earns his living, and fights the injustice he and his wife's face. (imdb)

The urbane son of a village chieftain struggles between his personal aspirations and those of his family. (imdb)

Rajaraman, a goon, has lied to his parents that he is a doctor. Once, on their visit, the truth comes out and they are heartbroken. That's when he decides to become a real doctor by hook or by crook. (imdb)

A soulful romantic comedy with a twist, this evocative tale revolves around three people who must come to terms with their interwoven past, and establish a healthy harmony in their relationships. (imdb)

Amar is assigned to investigate a case of serial killings. When Amar investigates the case, he realizes it is not what it seems to be and following down this path will lead to nothing but war between everyone involved.

Parthiban is a mild-mannered cafe owner in Kashmir, who fends off a gang of murderous thugs and gains attention from a drug cartel claiming he was once a part of them.

A curse on a warrior sets off an epic chain of events in a dystopian future in this sci-fi mythological retelling. (Netflix)