Actor Kamal Haasan recently completed his 67-year-long journey in cinema. Earlier this Thursday, Kamal took to social media to express his gratitude to the audience for wishing him on his milestone and share his thoughts about his experience working in the field. "Thanks to all who wished me well on my 67 years of cinema. Out of those 67, I think I can only salvage about 20 years as my actual learning. The rest was going with the flow of the wastewater," Kamal wrote before explaining his journey with an ocean metaphor.

The actor added, "The uplifting hope is, however dark the waterway turns out to be, the wait for a confluence with the largest singular form called the collective cinema, an unchannelled sea. We are all flowing towards it - artists, audience, and all. So I guess what I have salvaged as experience can be improved upon before people stop counting my years in this field and start looking for better numbers elsewhere."

Kamal Haasan also contextualised his film journey with a musing on the existence of cinema. "Since the Lumière brothers’ first public film screening in December 1895, the film industry has been around for approximately 130 years and 8 months. My team reminded me that I have been around for 67 of those years, more than half of the entire history of the film industry! That is a rather extraordinary thought to take in. Yet, in my own account, I can claim only about 20 years as actual learning," he added.

The actor ended his note by describing himself as "probably the oldest of the Gen Z."

Kamal Haasan made his debut as a child actor with 1960's Kalathur Kannamma, for which he won the President's Gold Medal award. He was last seen in Thug Life (2025), and his upcoming projects include one film with directors Anbariv and another with director Nelson and Rajinikanth.