Doctorate to Kamalhassan

Sree · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 2:49 pm Post subject: Doctorate to Kamalhassan

The Annai Sathyabama Deemed University will confer a doctorate on to the actor Padmasri Kamalhassan. A decision to this effect was taken at the University?s council meeting held recently. This was announced by the Vice Chancellor Jeppiyar, amidst the thunderous applause from the audience and other film artistes who were present at the Vasool Raja MBBS audio cassette release function which took place at the Madras University Centenary auditorium.The audio cassette was released by Kamalhassan and the first copy was received by A.V.M.Saravanan, and Vairamuthu.
Speaking at the function producer AVM Saravanan praised Kamalhassan?s brilliance and unfathomable knowledge about technicalities involved in the film making. Saravanan said that ?it was in the year 1960 August 12th Kamalhassan as a child artiste in Kalathoor Kannamma gave a success film under the AVM banner. It was in the year 1982 Kamal again gave another hit through Sahala Kala Vallavan which was released on August 12th?. Similarly, Saravanan hoped the Vasool Raja MBBS which was scheduled to be released on August 12th would be a super hit.
Actor Prabhu recalled that his father Sivaji Ganesan considered Kamalhassan as the eldest son of their family.
Director Sharan in his address said, that he had learnt several things from Kamalhassan by working with him as the director of the film. He praised that Kamal deserves many doctorates and he literally saw there were a lot of letters from various universities for conferring the doctorate on to the genius actor. To his surprise, he had turned down them all, Sharan said.
Kamalhassan on his part said that, ?for all my victories in my life there are many persons stood behind me and I recall my stage guru and teacher Avvai Shanmugam, Director K.Balachander and many others in the film industry?. He added by honoring the doctorate his responsibility had increased more.
Earlier, the film?s audio cassette was played and the music director of the film Bharadhwaj introduced all the new singers in the film to the audience.