Charuhasan Srinivasan was born on 5 January 1931 and is an Indian actor, director and retired lawyer who has acted in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films.
12 Facts About Charuhasan
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Charuhasan won the National Film Award for Best Actor and the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actor for the Kannada film Tabarana Kathe.
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Charuhasan is the elder brother of veteran actor Kamal Haasan and father of Indian actress Suhasini.
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Charuhasan was born on 5 January 1931 to lawyer and Indian independence activist D Srinivasan and his wife Rajalakshmi.
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Charuhasan was the eldest son of the couple and more than twenty-three years older than his youngest brother Kamal Haasan.
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Charuhasan 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.
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Charuhasan was directly admitted to fifth grade at the age of nine.
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In 1949, Charuhasan joined the Raja Lakhamgouda Law College in Belgaum and qualified as a lawyer in 1951.
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When his younger brother, Kamal Hasan, started acting in movies as a child actor, Charuhasan was his caretaker.
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Charuhasan eventually made his debut in 1979 Tamil film Uthiripookkal directed by Mahendran which was based on a short story by Pudhumaipithan.
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Charuhasan has directed two films, IPC 215 and Puthiya Sangammam.
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Charuhasan is married to Komalam since 1953 and has three daughters Nandhini, Subhasini and Suhasini.