The 12 best Bollywood actors
Active: 1960 to present
Debuting as a child star, Kamal Haasan aged six, won the President's Gold Medal for Best Child Actor for his debut film, Kalathur Kannamma. He's gone on to become the Tom Cruise of India, starring in myriad genres from action to drama and popularised the lip-to-lip kiss in Indian cinema (even if Bollywood did it in 1933).
So popular was his 1987 Tamil film Nayakan, Haasan dubbed himself in Hindi version, helping make it a pan-Indian hit. It is based on the life of the Bombay underworld don Varadarajan Mudaliar juxtaposed with the cinematic style of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather.
His global fans still hope he will revive his unfinished magnum opus, Marudhanayagam, a biopic of actor Dilip Kumar, which Queen Elizabeth launched very publicly during her 1997 visit to India. His fascination with Hollywood took him to LA, to find technicians, frequently collaborating with Star Trek make-up wizard Michael Westmore.
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