S. Balachander

S. Balachander
S. Balachander
	Balachander in 1948
Born	Sundaram Balachander; 18 January 1927; Mylapore, Madras Presidency, British India
Died	13 April 1990 (aged 63); Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India
Occupation	Veena player, director, dancer, singer, poet, cine actor, playback singer, music composer, photographer, string artist
Years active	1934 to 1990
Spouse(s)	Shantha (1953–1990) ; (his death)
Children	Raman (son)
Awards	Padma Bhushan

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Sundaram Balachander (18 January 1927 – 13 April 1990) was an Indian veena player and filmmaker. He directed, produced, and also composed music for a few of his films. Balachander was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1982.

Film career[edit]

Balachander began as a child artist in the Tamil film Seetha Kalyanam in 1934 as a child musician in Ravana's court, opposite V. Sundaram Iyer as Janaka and S. Rajam as Rama.^[1] This was followed by appearances in Rishyasringar (1941) and Araichimani (1942).^[2]

In 1948 Balachander directed the film En Kanavar.^[3] In 1954 he directed Andha Naal, a classic Tamil film noir thriller.^[4]^[5]

Awards[edit]

1954 – Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film in Tamil – Andha Naal^[6]
1956 – Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film in Telugu – Edi Nijam^[7]
1982 – Sangeetha Kalasikhamani, by The Indian Fine Arts Society, Chennai.
1982 – Padmabhushan^[8]

Filmography[edit]

Year	Film	Language	Actor	Director	Music Director	Singer	Producer	Note
1934	Seetha Kalyanam	Tamil	Y	N	N	N	N
1941	Rishyasringar	Tamil	Y	N	N	N	N
1941	Kamadhenu	Tamil	Y	N	N	N	N	Credited as Master Balachandar
1942	Aaraichimani	Tamil	Y	N	N	N	N
1947	Baktha Thulasidas	Tamil	N		Y	N	N	Music Composer along with Anil Biswas
1948	Idhu Nijama	Tamil	N	Y	Y	Y		Assistant Director
1948	En Kanavar	Tamil	Y	Y	Y	Y		Editor
1951	Kaithi	Tamil	Y	Y	Y	Y
1951	Devaki	Tamil	Y	N	N	N	N
1951	Rajambal	Tamil	Y		Y			Music Composer along with M. S. Gnanamani
1952	Rani	Tamil	Y	N	N	N	N
1953	Inspector	Tamil	Y	N	N	N	N
1954	Andha Naal	Tamil		Y
1954	Penn	Tamil	Y
1954	Sangham	Telugu	Y
1955	Koteeswaran	Tamil	Y
1955	Doctor Savithri	Tamil	Y
1956	Edi Nijam	Telugu		Y
1956	Edhu Nijam	Tamil		Y
1958	Bhoologa Rambai	Tamil		Y				Director along with D. Yoganand upon the demise of K. Ramnoth
1958	Bhooloka Rambha	Telugu		Y				Director along with D. Yoganand upon the demise of K. Ramnoth
1958	Avan Amaran	Tamil		Y
1959	Maragadham	Tamil	Y
1962	Avana Ivan	Tamil	Y	Y	Y		Y
1964	Bommai	Tamil	Y	Y	Y		Y
1970	Nadu Iravil	Tamil	Y	Y	Y		Y

References[edit]

↑ "Face to Face: S. Balachander". The Illustrated Weekly of India. Vol. 88. Times of India Press. 1967. p. 43.
↑ Sundaresan, P. N. (1990). Sruti, Issues 65-76. Sruti. p. 34.
↑ Asian Film Directory and Who's who. 1952. p. 187.
↑ "Andha Naal: Remembering veena S. Balachander". The Hindu. 7 April 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
↑ "Rajinikanth launches first look of Antha Naal". Times of India. 31 October 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
↑ "2nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Retrieved 23 August 2011.
↑ "4th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

External links[edit]

Sundaram Balachander on IMDb
Balachander plays the Veena at YouTube
Movies side of Veenai Balachandar on YouTube - Mysskin tells about S. Balachandar's film history.

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[1] "Face to Face: S. Balachander". The Illustrated Weekly of India. Vol. 88. Times of India Press. 1967. p. 43.

[2] Sundaresan, P. N. (1990). Sruti, Issues 65-76. Sruti. p. 34.

[3] Asian Film Directory and Who's who. 1952. p. 187.

[4] "Andha Naal: Remembering veena S. Balachander". The Hindu. 7 April 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2020.

[5] "Rajinikanth launches first look of Antha Naal". Times of India. 31 October 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2020.

[2ndawardPDF-6] "2nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Retrieved 23 August 2011.

[4thawardPDF-7] "4th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 2 September 2011.

[Padma_Awards-8] "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

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v t e Padma Bhushan award recipients (1980–1989)
1980	Sunil Gavaskar
1981	Vainu Bappu Prafulla Desai A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Gopinath Mohanty Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyaya Amritlal Nagar Mrinal Sen Avabai Bomanji Wadia
1982	Jasbir Singh Bajaj S. Balachander Gottipati Brahmaiah Rani Gaidinliu Khadim Hussain Khan Stella Kramrisch Jal Minocher Mehta Grace Morley Syed Zahoor Qasim Kamal Ranadive P. N. Pattabhirama Sastri Jhabarmal Sharma Ajit Ram Verma
1983	Richard Attenborough Doraiswamy Iyengar V. G. Jog K. Sankaran Nair Prem Nazir Swraj Paul, Baron Paul Rajkumar K. G. Ramanathan Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala Subodh Chandra Sengupta Adi M. Sethna Arun Kumar Sharma Benudhar Sharma Bhalindra Singh Umrao Singh
1984	Horace Alexander Michael Ferreira Sivaji Ganesan Jnan Prakash Ghosh Kotha Satchidananda Murthy Hosur Narasimhaiah Sripada Pinakapani Ishwari Prasad B. C. Sanyal Marie Seton Archana Sharma Obaid Siddiqi Natwar Singh Ganda Singh Vijay Tendulkar Baldev Upadhyaya
1985	Durga Das Basu Shiba P. Chatterjee Eknath Vasant Chitnis Virender Lal Chopra Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon Santidev Ghosh Bhimsen Joshi Tribhuvandas Luhar Sadat Abul Masud Kalanidhi Narayanan Bernard Peters Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Gopala Ramanujam S. Ramaseshan Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry Amarjit Singh Gurbachan Singh Talib Bhalchandra Udgaonkar Srinivasan Varadarajan
1986	Pushpa Mittra Bhargava Ela Bhatt Manohar Lal Chibber Aminuddin Dagar V. Krishnamurthy Jean Riboud Sidney Dillon Ripley Rajeev Sethi Martand Singh C. Venkataraman Sundaram Badri Nath Tandon Gulshan Lal Tandon R. K. Trivedi
1987	Balamani Amma Kishori Amonkar Nikhil Banerjee Roddam Narasimha R. D. Pradhan Annada Shankar Ray Julio Ribeiro Man Mohan Sharma Laxmi Prasad Sihare Farokh Udwadia Mohammad Yunus
1988	19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche Ram Prakash Bambah Kartar Singh Duggal Ashok Sekhar Ganguly Abid Hussain Shreyans Prasad Jain Kelucharan Mohapatra Bal Ram Nanda Akkineni Nageswara Rao Pratury Trirumala Rao Renuka Ray B. V. Sreekantan Satya Pal Wahi
1989	Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway Banoo Jehangir Coyaji Girija Devi Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar Girilal Jain Anna Rajam Malhotra M. V. Mathur Ashesh Prosad Mitra Russi Mody Suresh Shankar Nadkarni Narinder Singh Randhawa Yoshio Sakurauchi Lakshman Singh Prakash Narain Tandon
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