Are Women The Strength Or Weakness Of Kamal Haasan

ALI PETER JOHN

I have seen many men who see women in different ways. Some call them blessings and sime call them curses. Some call them fairies and some call them monsters. Some call them the best creation of god and some curse god for creating them. And some spend their whole lives in a state of confusion about women. And I have all the reasons to believe that Kamal Haasan belongs to the large category of men.

Kamal haf started his career as a child artist as a junior dancer he went on to become one of the most popular and talented actor who excel in playing a wide variety of roles in all the films made in the south and even in Hindi. He had a greater fan following among women than man which was in direct contrast to his competitor Rajnikant.

He was working with all the leading ladies and they were slowly having affairs with them

But  he married Vani Ganapathy, the bharat natyam dancer and the daughter of a leading ad executive in Bombay. The marriage however lasted only for a few months and ended in a divorce.

Kamal was now growing into a living legend and had started doing Hindi films for which he had to keep shuttling between. Bombay and the south. He had his favourite suit in the Holliday Inn hotel in Juhu and had visitors like the actresses Dipti Naval and Sarika falling on him and soon their were stories about his falling for Sarika who was facing tough times after she had broken of all ties with her mother and lived as a paying guest.

I received a call from my friend Sarika to ask you to see her in her apartment in a building called gulistan in seven Bungalows. And even before I could enter her apartment, she said in an excited voice, ‘Ali , I am pregnant and you know who the father is.’ Kamal then took Sarika to Chennai and she was known as Sarika Amma all over Tamil Nadu. They had still not got married but have two daughters , Shruti and Akshara and they got married and had a royal reception with their daughters attending the receptions of their parent in what could he perhaps the first of its kind.

Sarika was the queen of the Raj Kamal film empire which was founded by Kamal a banner under which he made some of the most popular, powerful and commercial hits . She was a production executive ,the head of the costume department and the woman who was the backbone and inspiration of Kamal empire...

Sarika worked day and night to give Kamal the best he wanted and forgot all about herself and her career as an actress. But the dream was not the last long .The two had a separation and Sarika landed in Bombay with her daughters and lived in a building called Varun where she took me by surprise where she told ne the story about her separation.

Things however went from bad to worse for Sarika. Her daughters went back to their daughter and Sarika made a comeback as an actress and won the national award for the best actress for her heart- rending performance in Rajat dholakia’s ‘Parzania’.

And Shruthi and Akshara became big stars in the south and in Hindi films

Sarika was like a woman with the will to fly even at 0her age

And Kamal switched over to another young actress called  Gauthami and this relationship also ended in a separation. And now it is said that Kamal is having a soft corner and a home fir another young actress called Pooja Kumar, struggling actress from Mumbai who is the daughter of a well known. Hindi film director..

Kamal is sixty six now and according to some even nearing seventy, he is the founder of his own political party and is still a man who is large hearted soul who had prived it recently qhen ge gave away his massive house in Chennai to serve the victims of Covid 19.

But will his large heart and his weakness and strength for women have enough place to have another woman in his life?