Write a short life sketch and contribution of S. Bala chander.
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Sundaram Balachander (18 January 1927 – 13 April 1990) was an Indian veena player. He was also an accomplished filmmaker. He directed and produced while also having composed music for a few of them.
His ancestors were from Srivaajiyam village in Thanjavur area, which is acclaimed as the seat of culture and fine arts in South India. His grandfather is Rao Saheb Vaidyanatha Iyer. He was born to V. Sundaram Iyer and Parvathi alias Chellamma. His father bought a house in Mylapore in 1924, at the suggestion of Pudukkottai Dakshinamurthy Pillai he added a hall in the first floor exclusively to entertain and be entertained. Stalwarts like Ariyakudi Ramanujam Iyengar, Madurai Mani Iyer, Ambi Deekshithar, Muthaiah Bagavathar, Karaikudi Sambasivam and Papanasam Sivan have all performed in that hall. In fact, it was Sundaram Iyer who took Papanasam Sivan under his fold when Sivan relocated to Madras from Trivandrum to earn a livelihood. Papanasam Sivan in his reminiscences (1900) refers to the popularity of Swathi Thirunal compositions in Trivandrum and ironically, the acquaintance with such a person in the childhood itself did not help Balachander to escape his prejudice against Swathi Thirunal and Kerala Music.
His elder brother S. Rajam was a well-known singer and teacher, and a gifted artist as well. His elder sister is S. Jayalakshmi (who later acted as M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar's pair in Sivakavi), S. Saraswathi was his younger sister, followed by the twins S. Karpagam and S. Gopalaswami.
=) S. Bala Chander was born January 18, 1927, in Madras, Dr. S. Balachander was a key figure in Carnatic traditional music. His vina playing was stunning however he likewise played a scope of different instruments to different degrees of authority including tabla, harmonium, mridangam, shehnai, dilruba and sitar. He began, in the same way as other instrumentalists, as a vocalist and by the age of six he was on the show arrange. Between the age of 12 and 16 he gave show presentations on a Hindustani instrument, the sitar. Amid the 1960s his work was put before general society by Richard Bock's World Pacific mark.