Said it out of love, let's leave debate to experts: Kamal Haasan

30-May-2025

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Responding to the recent controversy surrounding his remarks that “Kannada was born out of Tamil”, actor Kamal Haasan has said that he would not apologise for something spoken out of affection.

Haasan stated, “What I said was said out of love and a lot of historians have taught me language history. I didn’t mean anything.” 

Speaking to reporters in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, he added that political figures often lack the expertise to comment on such matters.

Haasan called for restraint among politicians in making assertions about language origins, stating that such matters should be left to domain experts. 

“Politicians are not qualified to talk about language. They don’t have the qualifications to talk about it, including me. Let us leave all these very in-depth discussions to historians, archaeologists and language experts,” he said.