K. Balachander

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K. Balachander

Kailasam Balachander (born Jul 9-1930 in Nannilam, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India) is an Indian film director, scriptwriter and producer. He is known for his distinct filmmaking style; the films he scripts and directs analyse unusual or complicated interpersonal relationships and social themes. In his career, he has encouraged and contributed to the flourishing of the Tamil film industry in South India, and has introduced into Indian cinema key actors such as Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth.^[1] Known amongst actors as a tough taskmaster,^[2] he was able to extract from these actors some of their finest acting performances for his films. Prior to his involvement in Indian cinema, K. Balachander worked as a school teacher in Muthupet, Tiruvarur District, and as a playwright.

His notable films were Tamil productions such as Apoorva Raagangal (1975), which deals with a father-son relationship that culminates in a complex dilemma; Avargal (1977), which follows the life of a divorcee as she traverses various relationships in reverse, i.e., from divorce, to marriage, to falling in love;^[3] 47 Natkal (1981), which traces the adversities of a newly-wed Indian woman living with an abusive, expatriate husband in a Parisian suburb; and Sindhu Bhairavi (1985), about the collision and subsequent romance between an eminent Carnatic musician and his ardent, female critic. His most successful Hindi film is Ek Duuje Ke Liye (1981), for which he won the Filmfare Best Screenplay Award.

K. Balachander received the Padma Shri award in 1987 from the Indian Government in recognition to his contribution to the arts.^[4] His oeuvre consists of about a hundred feature films and some popular television serials.

1 Film artists associated with K. Balachander
2 Filmography
3 TV serials
4 Award-winning films
5 References
6 External link

[edit] Film artists associated with K. Balachander

K. Balachander has introduced a number of popular film personnel in the South Indian film industry. Some of them are:

Kamal Haasan
Rajinikanth
Prakash Raj
Saritha
Sujatha
Saran (director)
Ramesh Aravind
Vivek
Madhavi
Vimala Raman
Srividya

He is the one of the genius director in tamil film industry,who is said to have complete control over the film right from acting to everything else.Especially he always enacts to the actors to peform and extract best performance from actors.He hails from theatre background,which was popular during 1960's.Like Swedish film maker bergman,most of his movies were drama and he himself scripts his movies.He has profound knowledge on music and most his films had good works of music extracted from composers.Especially carnatic songs had some place in some of his films.He was a perfectionist and always had social themes,artist inclination on his works.Hw revolutionized tamil film industry which was dominated by heroes.Most of his films had women in important characters and portrays their life.The source for his script is mostly from common life instances and who writes after immediately seeing a interesting thing.