Kamal Haasan returns to the silver screen after almost four years with his upcoming release Vikram. Here are some lesser known facts about Kamal Haasan that you probably didn't know.

1. Kamal Haasan made his debut at the early age of four with with a minor role in 1959 film 'Kalathur Kannamma'. He bagged the Best Actor President's Medal for his role in the same film.

2. Kamal Haasan is an Indian film actor, Director, Script Writer, Producer, Playback Singer, Lyricist, Choreographer, Dancer, Philanthropist.

3. He is fluent in Hindi, Tamil, English, Telegu, Malyalam, Bengali, Kannada and French. He attained stardom through the power of using different languages, he has acted in six multilingual films.

4. Kamal Haasan was first married to Vani Ganapathy in 1978 and later split up in 1985. The second time he married Sarika Thakur in 1988 and got divorced in 2004.

5. Kamal Haasan was Shankar's first choice for the popular film Robot or Enthiran, the movie later got cancelled and shelved due to some reasons. Later Rajnikanth was cast for the role of Chitti

6. Kamal Haasan has the highest number of Films (7) which were submitted to Oscar from India under 'Best Foreign Language Film' category.

7.Kamal Haasan has won 19 Filmfare Awards, which is the highest owned by any celebrity.

8. Kamal Haasan was honoured with Padma Shri (1990) and Padma Bhushan (2014) from the Indian Government for his services in Film Industry.