Charuhasan
Chaaru Haasan is an award winning film actor. He won the national award for the Best Actor and also the Karnataka Government's Best Actor Award for the movie Tabarana Kathe, directed by Girish Kasaravalli in 1987. Charu Haasan is the father of the famous South Indian actress Suhasini Maniratnam and the brother of famous film star Kamal Haasan. Charu Haasan has also acted in several other Tamil and Kannada movies. His other notable movies include Dalapathi which was directed by his son-in-law Maniratnam.He also acted for a short time in Sun TV's serial Anandham. Chaaru Haasan is an avid amateur radio operator (callsign - VU2SCU).