Veteran actor and #Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) chief #Kamal Haasan. File | Photo Credit: PTI
On Sunday, Kamal participated within the fifteenth anniversary celebrations of #Agaram Foundation, Tamil actor Suriya’s charitable organisation that has helped over 6,700 first-generation graduates realise their dream of upper schooling. While talking on the occasion, Kamal praised Suriya’s efforts and urged kids to wield schooling as their weapon.
“Education and love are seldom supplied collectively. Mothers offer you that, and establishments just like the #Agaram Foundation offer you that. They offer you a crown for those who attain higher heights in cinema, however if you wish to attain nice heights to do good for society, all you’re going to get is a crown fabricated from thorns. To say ‘It’s okay if that’s the crown I’d be bestowed with’ wants a variety of psychological energy. It wants braveness as a result of no one will stand with you,” stated Kamal.
On NEET, Sanatana Dharma
The Thug Life actor then criticised the Union authorities’s National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), the doorway examination for undergraduate and postgraduate medical schooling that has drawn flak, particularly in #Tamil Nadu, since its inception in 2017. “The medical doctors you noticed on stage right this moment….I’m not certain if they will present one other batch of medical doctors like this at their subsequent occasion. Because they haven’t been in a position to proceed such efforts post-2017. Now, do you perceive why we now have been opposing NEET? Since 2017, this legislation has prevented such kids from getting this schooling. Agaram can’t do something about it,” stated Kamal, including that solely schooling can grant the facility to vary this case.
“In this warfare, solely schooling has the facility to vary the nation. It’s the one weapon that may break the chains of dictatorship and Sanatana. Do not take every other weapon in your palms. You can’t win with every other weapon. Because you’ll be defeated by majoritarianism; ignorant majoritarians will defeat you,” added Kamal.
Further, he revealed that he had spoken to #Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Ok. Stalin about Suriya’s work and that he urged him to assist such NGOs. “I advised him, ‘They aren’t asking for cash, they’re merely asking for permission. How is that going to harm us? Please give them the required permissions’ He stated he has been doing so.”
Kamal’s assertion towards Sanatana Dharma has garnered criticism, particularly from the BJP. Sanatana Dharma, a set of everlasting duties ordained in #Hinduism, has been a delicate nerve in politics. Earlier in 2023, #Tamil Nadu Minister for Youth Welfare and Sports Development, Udhayanidhi Stalin’s assertion calling for “the eradication of Sanatana Dharma” triggered a serious political row.
Reacting to his remark, BJP chief #Tamilisai Soundararajan, on Monday, accused Kamal of “dividing individuals” on spiritual sentiments. “#Kamal Haasan is extra grateful to DMK than its personal cadres. If he speaks about Sanatan, Udhayanidhi and Stalin might be completely happy. However, #Tamil Nadu individuals might be sad, and never solely #Tamil Nadu, the emotions of all Indians who observe that ideology might be damage,” she advised the information company ANI.
This isn’t the primary time a press release by #Kamal Haasan has created an issue in current instances.
Earlier in June, the actor was embroiled in an issue through the promotions of his movie Thug Lifefor stating that the Kannada language “was born out of Tamil.” The comment, made through the audio launch of his upcoming movie Thug Life in #Chennai, has drawn fierce backlash in Karnataka, significantly from the BJP and pro-Kannada teams. The controversy even led to a halt within the movie’s launch in Karnataka, a ban that was revoked after the Supreme Court of India asserted filmmakers’ proper to launch licensed movies with out threats of arson or mob intimidation.
Published – August 04, 2025 05:02 pm IST
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