Kamal Haasan launches cleaning of Madambakkam lake

November 07, 2014 12:31 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 06:51 pm IST - Chennai

An old woman supporting actor Kamal Haasan at Clean India Campaign in Madambakkam lake clean up on Friday. Photo: G. Krishnaswamy

An old woman supporting actor Kamal Haasan at Clean India Campaign in Madambakkam lake clean up on Friday. Photo: G. Krishnaswamy

Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan, who turned 60 on Friday, has launched the cleaning of Madambakkam lake in Chennai as part of the ‘Clean India campaign’.

Kamal is spearheading the movement along with the volunteers of ‘Narpani Iyakkam’ (Welfare Club).

“Kamal Haasan launched the cleaning of Madhambakkam lake earlier this morning. Later in the day, he is expected to announce his plans on how to take the Swachh Bharat campaign forward and get more people involved,” read a statement.

Recently, >Kamal accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invite to join the ‘Clean India campaign’ and in turn > invited nine million people to make this a “nation building” initiative.

He also said he will “pursue this exercise not for any political philosophy”.

Family and close friends of Kamal are expected to organise a birthday party later.

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