Charuhasan

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Charuhasan
Born	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Residence	Alwarpet, Chennai, India
Occupation	actor, film director, film producer, writer
Relatives	Suhasini Maniratnam (daughter) Chandrahasan (brother) Kamal Hassan (brother) Anu Hasan (niece) Shruti Haasan (niece)

Charuhasan^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] (born 1930) is an Indian film actor, acting mostly in South Indian movies. He was born in 1930 to D. Srinivasan. He is the elder brother of Kamal Haasan. He won the National Film Award for Best Actor^[4] and also the Karnataka Government's Best Actor Award for the movie Tabarana Kathe, directed by Girish Kasaravalli in 1987.

Charuhasan is the father of Indian actress Suhasini Maniratnam and the brother of Kamal Haasan.^[3] He has acted in several Tamil & Malayalam films, and a few Telugu & Kannada movies. His other notable movies include Dalapathi which was directed by his son-in-law Maniratnam. He also acted for a short time in Sun TV's serial Anandham. Charuhasan is an avid amateur radio operator (callsign - VU2SCU).^[2] He lives in Chennai.^[1]

Before entering the film industry, he was a lawyer.^[4]^[5] He had a different schooling to other children his age; due to an accident he was unable to attend school for the first few years of his life and had a private tutor give him a basic education.^[6]

Awards

1986 – National Film Award for Best Actor for Tabarana Kathe
1986 – Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actor for Tabarana Kathe
1992 – Filmfare Award for Best Kannada Actor for Kubi Mattu Iyala

Filmography

Kannada

Tabarana Kathe... Tabara
Kubi Mattu Iyala

Malayalam

Adharvam...
Randam Varavu
Shraddham
Vazhiyorakkazhchakkal
Vachanam
Ayushkalam..
Gandhari..
Guru

Tamil

Udhiripookkal
Nenjathai Killathe
Moondru Mugam
Vikram
Vedham Pudhithu...
Thalapathi...
Naattukku Oru Nallavan
Veera
Jai Hind...
Velai
Dhil...
Uthamaputhiran

Telugu

Mathru Devo Bhava
Subhodayam
Surya IPS
Nirnayam (cameo)

Notes

↑ 1.0 1.1 Jordan McAuley (2008), Jordan McAuley, ed., The Celebrity Black Book 2008: Over 55,000 Accurate Celebrity Addresses (18 ed.), Mega Niche Media, ISBN 978-1-60487-002-2
↑ 2.0 2.1 QRZ Ham Radio Callsign Database - VU2SCU
↑ 3.0 3.1 Ashish Rajadhyaksha; Paul Willemen; National Film Archive of India (1994), Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema, British Film Institute, p. 206, ISBN 978-0-85170-455-5
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Subha J Rao, "Entertainment for a cause", The Hindu, 30 August 2004
↑ 5.0 5.1 S.R. Ashok Kumar, "An advocate by profession, an actor by accident", The Hindu, 26 April 2007
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External links

Charu Haasan at the Internet Movie Database
27 October 1998, Rediff
9 April 2009, The Hindu
9 July 2002, The Hindu
Journalists' forum call to combat campaign against actresses, 24 November 2005, The Hindu
When the living was easy, 1 April 2009, The Hindu
Legal actor, 26 August 2004, The Hindu

v t e National Film Award for Best Actor

1967–1980	Uttam Kumar (1967) Ashok Kumar (1968) Utpal Dutt (1969) Sanjeev Kumar (1970) M. G. Ramachandran (1971) Sanjeev Kumar (1972) P. J. Antony (1973) Sadhu Meher (1974) M. V. Vasudeva Rao (1975) Mithun Chakraborty (1976) Bharath Gopi (1977) Arun Mukherjee (1978) Naseeruddin Shah (1979) Balan K. Nair (1980)

1981–2000	Om Puri (1981) Kamal Haasan (1982) Om Puri (1983) Naseeruddin Shah (1984) Shashi Kapoor (1985) Charuhasan (1986) Kamal Haasan (1987) Premji (1988) Mammootty (1989) Amitabh Bachchan (1990) Mohanlal (1991) Mithun Chakraborty (1992) Mammootty (1993) Nana Patekar (1994) Rajit Kapur (1995) Kamal Haasan (1996) Balachandra Menon and Suresh Gopi (1997) Ajay Devgan and Mammootty (1998) Mohanlal (1999) Anil Kapoor (2000)

2001–present	Murali (2001) Ajay Devgan (2002) Vikram (2003) Saif Ali Khan (2004) Amitabh Bachchan (2005) Soumitra Chatterjee (2006) Prakash Raj (2007) Upendra Limaye (2008) Amitabh Bachchan (2009) Dhanush and Salim Kumar (2010) Girish Kulkarni (2011) Irrfan Khan and Vikram Gokhale (2012)

v t e Filmfare Award for Best Kannada Actor

1972–1989	Venkata Rao Talegiri (1972) Rajkumar (1973) Lokesh (1974) Rajkumar (1975) Srinath (1976) Maanu (1977) Rajkumar (1978) Anant Nag (1979) Lokesh (1980) Rajkumar (1981) Ananth Nag (1982) Unknown (1983) Vishnuvardhan (1984) Rajkumar (1985) Ambareesh (1986) Kamal Haasan (1987) Vishnuvardhan (1988) Anant Nag (1989)

1990–2009	Unknown (1990) Anant Nag (1991) Charuhasan (1992) Rajkumar (1993) Unknown (1994) Shivrajkumar (1995) Shivrajkumar (1996) Ramesh Aravind (1997) Ramesh Aravind (1998) Shivrajkumar (1999) Vishnuvardhan (2000) Sudeep (2001) Sudeep (2002) Sudeep (2003) Vishnuvardhan (2004) Prem Kumar (2005) Puneeth Rajkumar (2006) Duniya Vijay (2007) Ganesh (2008) Ganesh (2009)

2010–present	Shivrajkumar (2010) Puneeth Rajkumar (2011) Darshan (2012)

Persondata
Name	Charuhasan
Alternative names
Short description	Indian actor
Date of birth	1930
Place of birth	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Date of death
Place of death

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