Chennai: Tamil superstar Kamal Haasan on Thursday announced that he is returning the donations which he had received from his fans for his soon-to-be-launched political party.


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The veteran Tamil superstar made his intentions clear through a column in a weekly Tamil news magazine.


"It'll be illegal to keep the money without any infrastructure," he wrote in the weekly column. 


The 57-year-old actor had sometimes back said that his fan clubs had helped him in raising nearly Rs 30 crores to assist the needy.


However, he also said that there should be no ambiguity over his plans to enter politics.


Though the actor maintained that he has ''not fixed a date or name for the new political venture''.


"The party has to be first named and formed," he wrote in the column.


"This doesn't mean I am backtracking, it doesn't mean I won't accept money," he added.


Shifting his focus to a recent controversy over his 'Hindu terrorist' remarks, the actor also sought also to assuage those offended by his comments.


In an earlier column, the veteran actor had spoken of "Hindu terror" and said that there was a new trend among right-wing groups to resort to violence instead of debate to make their arguments. 


The veteran actor, however, later apologised for his remarks and said that he was misquoted.


"I didn't mean that. I come from a Hindu family," he had said.


In today's piece, Haasan asked the Hindus to act like 'older brothers'.


"Hindus are in a majority, (so) they have the responsibility of an elder brother. When Hindus say we are big, their hearts too ought to be big. They should embrace others and correct them if they do wrong," he wrote.


Kamal Haasan, on his birthday on the 7th of this month, said that he will launch an app which would allow him to collect feedback on what voters want and enable whistleblowers to post crucial information. 


He had first disclosed his intent to turn politician in July.