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Kamal Haasan calls himself oldest Gen Z after 67 years in cinema
Kamal Haasan says he has completed 67 years in cinema and calls himself "probably the oldest of the Gen Z" in the industry. In a post on X, the veteran actor said…
The Story in Brief
Kamal Haasan says he has completed 67 years in cinema and calls himself "probably the oldest of the Gen Z" in the industry. In a post on X, the veteran actor said he can salvage only about 20 of those years as actual learning, while the rest was "going with the flow of the wastewater." Haasan made his acting debut as a child artist in the 1960 Tamil film Kalathur Kannamma and has since worked across multiple languages, winning several National Awards. His recent projects include Mani Ratnam's Thug Life (2025) and the upcoming sequel to Nag Ashwin's Kalki 2898 AD, alongside a highly anticipated film with Rajinikanth directed by Nelson Dilipkumar.
The Indian Opinion
The "20 years of learning" line is a star's trademark humility, but it also feeds a lazy narrative that the rest of his career was wasted. His actual output, multiple National Awards, landmark films, and pan-Indian hits, tells a different story. The test will be whether his upcoming collaborations with Rajinikanth and the Kalki 2898 AD sequel reveal a visibly sharper craft, or whether this is just the standard modesty of a veteran who knows he is still being watched.
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