Can you recognise this birthday boy?

Can you recognise this child artist?

Today, he is one of India's biggest stars. He is Kamal Haasan.

We stumbled upon a photograph of the actor when he was a child actor, and we decided to showcase it on his birthday today.

Not many know that Kamal started acting at the age of four, in the film Kalathur Kannamma. In the past 53 years, he has donned many avatars on the silver screen many times, and continues to do it.

Kamal Haasan has acted in six films as a child, and then took a break for seven years to learn the art form thoroughly. His first lead role was in the Malayalam film Kanyakumari.

But it was the Tamil film Apoorva Raagangal where he got his big break.