Kamal Haasan gets French Honour.
Q. Who has been honoured with the Chevalier de L’Odre des Arts et Lettres (French honour) in August 2016?- Published on 23 Aug 16a. Rajnikanth
b. Kamal Haasan
c. Amitabh Bachchan
d. Aishwariya Rai
ANSWER: Kamal Haasan
Kamal Haasan has been selected for the Chevalier de L’Odre Arts et Lettres (Knight in the National Order Arts and Letters) as announced by the French Minister of Culture and Communication in August 2016.
- Distinction is awarded to those with artistic excellence and distinguished career achievements.
- Haasan is the second Tamil star after Sivaji Ganesan to be honoured with this award.
- He is a noted Indian film actor, director and screenwriter.
- He has won several Indian film awards like National Film awards and Filmfare awards.
- He has starred in highest number of films submitted by India for the Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film Category.
- Breakthrough as a lead actor game in 1975 and won his first national film award for portrayal of guileless schoolteacher caring for childlike amnesiac in Moondram Pirai.
- He is also a Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awardee.
- Meanwhile, noted Hindu writer Sunita Jain on 17th August was awarded the 25th Vyas Samman 2015 for her poetry collection Kshama
- She received the award from the West Bengal Governor KN Tripathi.
- Kshama portrays fine emotions between noted poet Tulsidas and wide Ratnavalli.
- Award was instituted by KK Birla foundation and carries cash prize of INR 2.5 lakhs.
- Sunita Jain writers in Hindi and English and has over 100 books to her credit
- She began writing at 22 and her writing in English include A Girl of Her Age and two short-story anthologies A Woman is Dead and Eunuch of Time and Other Stories.
- She is also a Padma Shri awardee and former IIT professor.
