“S P Balasubrahmanyam Was Emotional About Me”: Kamal Haasan On Their Deep Bond

New Delhi:

S P Balasubrahmanyam was like his older brother, actor Kamal Haasan mentioned after the enduring singer’s dying on Friday. SPB, 74, died in the Chennai hospital he had been taken to after testing constructive for COVID-19 on August 5. Regardless of testing damaging for the virus earlier this month, Mr Balasubrahmanyam couldn’t be taken off the ventilator and on Thursday was positioned on most life help after his well being worsened; Kamal Haasan visited the hospital on Thursday night. Tributes from the movie and music trade flooded social media after SPB’s dying; Kamal Haasan, one of the three actors most closely associated with Mr Balasubrahmanyam (the opposite two are Rajinikanth and Salman Khan), additionally addressed a digital press convention.

Talking about why he thought-about S P Balasubrahmanyam his brother, Kamal Haasan mentioned, “It wasn’t not simply because he was somebody who I regarded extremely however as a result of he had been with me throughout my excessive and my low. SPB was so emotional about me that even while you say good issues about me, he would begin feeling emotional and that is one motive why, in case you need to make SPB cry, you simply say good issues about me and you will notice him wiping away his tears. I can really take credit score for him turning into an actor as a result of that’s the sort of relationship we had. I pulled him into performing and actually introduced him in entrance of the digital camera as an actor.”

Kamal Haasan defined how S P Balasubrahmanyam would “mould his voice” to swimsuit not solely a specific hero but in addition the character being performed. When Mr Haasan, a person of various hats, sang, SPB was all the time encouraging. “You could have accomplished job. Let me simply make a number of corrections,” he would say.

Kamal Haasan mentioned that he appears to be like at life and dying as two chapters of the identical ebook and that is why he thinks of SPB’s dying as an extension of life itself. SPB will proceed to reside in his ideas and his thoughts, mentioned the actor.

S P Balasubrahmanyam was like Kamal Haasan’s public relations officer as a result of he all the time talked up the actor at each probability. “By no means thought would develop such a deep bond with SPB,” mentioned Mr Haasan. So intertwined have been Kamal Haasan’s face and SPB’s voice that producers and the general public all the time demanded that SPB sang for him in all movies.

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After S P Balasubrahmanyam’s dying, Kamal Haasan shared a piece of recollections within the type of a video. Among the pictures have been from the duo’s early years within the trade, whereas some have been comparatively latest. Kamal Haasan paid tribute to S P Balasubrahmanyam with these phrases: “It is my success that I used to be the shadow picture of SPB’s voice for a very long time. His fame will reside for 7 generations.”

That is what Kamal Haasan posted:

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— Kamal Haasan (@ikamalhaasan) September 25, 2020

Kamal Haasan and S P Balasubrahmanyam return a good distance. They labored collectively in a number of movies. SPB was Kamal Haasan’s voice in lots of tracks, a few of which have been Sorgham Madhuvile, Vaartha, Ore Jeevan, Orey Naal Unainaan, Aadungal, Manmatha Leelai, and Engeyum Eppodham amongst many others. A Kamal Haasan movie – Ek Duuje Ke Liye – was additionally SPB’s Hindi debut and gained him a Nationwide Award. SPB additionally dubbed for Kamal Haasan in Telugu movies, together with Dasavathaaram by which he voiced all seven characters performed by the actor.

Final yr, to have fun each Kamal Haasan’s birthday and his 60 years in cinema, S P Balasubrahmanyam carried out at a particular live performance titled ‘Kamalum Naanum’ (Kamal And I).

In August, Kamal Haasan had tweeted that for a number of years SPB had been his voice and he had been SPB’s face.

— Kamal Haasan (@ikamalhaasan) August 16, 2020

S P Balasubrahmanyam, can be remembered for his in depth physique of labor, which incorporates over 40,000 songs in 16 languages. The legendary singer was the winner of six Nationwide Awards and he regularly collaborated with Ilaiyaraaja, AR Rahman and different music composers. He was additionally the recipient of the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan. He’s survived by his spouse Savitri, daughter Pallavi, and son S P B Charan, who can also be a singer and a producer.