The Insufferable Irrelevance of Kamal Haasan

Commentary on the ugly descent of Kamal Haasan into irrelevance and his refusal to recognise it

BY THE SECOND HALF of the 1960s, Jean Paul Sartre had exhausted the patience of both the public and the intelligentsia of France. When the 1970s dawned, he had become a lamentable figure, a caricature of his former self, a compulsive alcoholic who had lost his abundant durbar filled by doting young admirers. His career in a sense, had come a full circle…