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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. He died of a heart attack at the age of 63, while on a music tour of India. [1] Film career.
Jan 19, 2012 · A self-taught artist who excelled in whatever he did, Balachander was known as much for his super skill at playing the veena as he was for courting controversy. Be it the then...
Oct 31, 1986 · S. Balachander, 60, is the unchallenged king of the veena on which he plays Carnatic music with dazzling virtuosity. He was interviewed by Features Editor Inderjit Badhwar for the continuing series of photo essays on the great masters of Indian art and music.
Sundaram Balachander's extraordinary mastery on the veena as well as his acquaintance with such popularizers of Indian classical music in the West as sitarist Ravi Shankar and violinist Yehudi Menuhin laid the foundation for this old instrument to achieve the level of international recognition.
Aug 10, 2019 · S Balachandar had been associated with the talkie industry almost from its commencement in Madras. His entry into the industry makes an interesting story. An early Hindi talkie,...
Jan 21, 2016 · S. Balachander’s birth anniversary was January 18. Rochelle Shah recalls the warm and multi-faceted veena exponent, who charmed people with his larger-than-life personality India
Apr 12, 2016 · S. Balachander in Bommai. ‘Naan dhaan S. Balachander – indha padathoda director and producer’ says the bespectacled and partially-bald man, dressed in trendy shorts and a smart half-sleeved...
Apr 20, 2012 · One such character in the Indian performing arts is S. Balachander. It is easier to describe what he was not rather than what he was: Prodigy, genius, perfectionist, innovator, self-obsessed, honest, kind, generous.
I present to you, Sir, Shri S. Balachander. Shri Bafachander, born in 1927 at Madras, is acclaimed as one of the most outstanding Karnatak vainikas of recent times.
Of all the stars in the Carnatic music galaxy from the 1930s through the 1980s, there was one star that outshone the brilliance of the rest: the irrepressible genius, S. Balachander, who stormed into the prim Madras music scene with a panache and eccentricity that no contemporary of his could match.
