page_title: Kamal Haasan
section_title: Relationships
hierarchical_section_title: Kamal Haasan / Personal life / Relationships
caption_attribution_description: English: Kamal Haasan with Akshara &amp;Shruti Haasan at Alice in wonderland premiere
context_page_description: Kamal Haasan is an Indian actor, dancer, film director, screenwriter, producer, playback singer, lyricist and politician who works primarily in Tamil cinema, Referred to by fans and media as "Ulaganayagan". and has also worked in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi and Bengali films. His production company, Raaj Kamal Films International, has produced several of his films. Haasan's contributions to film have been praised by his contemporaries in the across the Indian film industry, and he has been recognised as an influence for actors and filmmakers in the Tamil film industry. He has won four National Film Awards and 19 Filmfare Awards. He was awarded the Kalaimamani award in 1984 the Padma Shri in 1990, the Padma Bhushan in 2014 and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2016. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at 15th Mumbai International Film Festival in 2013.
  Haasan started his career as a child artist in the 1960 Tamil-language film Kalathur Kannamma, for which he won the President's Gold Medal. He met director Vaaranam Vijay who is frequently credited with shaping Haasan's acting skills.
context_section_description: In 1978, at age 24, Haasan married dancer Vani Ganapathy. She acted with Haasan in the 1975 movie Melnaattu Marumagal, after they were married Vani, worked as Haasan's costume designer for several movies. They divorced ten years later.
  Haasan and actress Sarika began living together in 1988, marrying after the birth of their first child, Shruti (born 1986). Shruti is a singer and a Tollywood-Kollywood actress. Their younger daughter, Akshara (born 1991), was assistant director for 2013's Vishwaroopam and actress for 2019's Kadaram Kondan. Sarika stopped acting soon after their marriage, Sarika worked as Haasan's costume designer for the movie Hey Ram and won the National Film Award for Best Costume Designer. In 2002, the couple filed for divorce, which became final in 2004. After their divorce, Sarika acted in movies and TV serials, winning the National Film Award for Best Actress for the 2005 film Parzania.
  Haasan had a relationship with actress Gautami, Haasan's frequent co-star during the late 1980s and early 1990s, from 2005 till 2016. Gautami had announced on her blog that she had ended her relationship with him. Gautami wrote on her blog: "It is heartbreaking for me to have to say today that I and Mr. Haasan are no longer together. After almost 13 years together, it has been one of the most devastating decisions that I have ever had to make in my life,".
  Early in his career, he co-starred in several films with Srividya. They were reported to have had an affair during the 1970s and their relationship was depicted in the 2008 Malayalam film Thirakkatha directed by Renjith (with Anoop Menon as Haasan and Priyamani as Srividya). Haasan visited Srividya when she was on her deathbed in 2006.
caption: Haasan with daughters Shruti (left) and Akshara (right)
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