There are some voices in the Indian music world which do not become old with time and S. P. Balasubramaniam was one of them. With his melodious voice and brilliant singing, he entertained many generations. From South Indian cinema to Bollywood, his songs remain people’s favorite even today. On the occasion of his birthday, let us know the story of that singer, who made a distinct identity in the world of music on the basis of his hard work, talent and unique records.

History was created by recording 21 songs in one day

Imagine a singer entering a recording studio in the morning and coming out at night with 21 fully recorded songs to his credit. This is not a fictional story, but a history created in Bengaluru on 8 February 1981, which was made true by the great singer Sripati Panditaradhyula Balasubramaniam (SPB or Balu) while recording Kannada songs for music composer Upendra Kumar. He also made a record of recording 19 Tamil and 16 Hindi songs in a day.

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Dream of becoming an engineer, but fate made him a singer

Born on 4 June 1946 in a Telugu Brahmin family in Nellore (Andhra Pradesh), Balasubramaniam’s father S. P. Sambamurthy was a ‘Harikatha’ artist. His father wanted ‘Balu’ to become an engineer. Respecting his father’s wish, he started studying engineering, but when he left his studies due to typhoid, he came to Madras (Chennai).

MGR had stopped recording for a month

In the year 1969, Tamil cinema megastar M.G. Ramachandran (MGR) for the recording of the song ‘Aayiram Nilave Vaa’ from his film ‘Aadimai Penn’. Was waiting for P. Balasubramaniam. At the last moment S. P. Balasubramaniam fell ill. The surprising thing was that MGR stopped the recording of the film for almost a month so that S. May P. Balasubramaniam recover and sing this song. This S. It was the magic of P. Balasubramaniam’s talent that this song recorded after his recovery proved to be a milestone.

S., who started his career on 15 December 1966 with the song ‘Emiye Vint Moham’ from the Telugu film ‘Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna’. P. Balasubramaniam did not take any formal classical education in music. Despite this, when in the year 1980, director K. When Vishwanath entrusted him with the responsibility of singing the songs of the film ‘Shankarabharanam’ based on pure Carnatic music, the veterans of classical music were skeptical.

But musician K. Under the direction of V. Mahadevan. P. Balasubramaniam sang the most complex bands like ‘Omkara Nadhanu’ with his smooth musical melody in such a way that he got his first ‘National Film Award’ for Best Playback Singer.

Got recognition in Hindi cinema from ‘Ek Duje Ke Liye’

In the year 1981 when S. P. Balasubramaniam by K. He entered Hindi cinema with Balachander’s film ‘Ek Duje Ke Liye’, the song ‘Tere Mere Beech Mein, Kaisa Hai Yeh Bandhan Anjaana’ from this film won him the second National Award.

Balasubramaniam became the voice of Salman Khan

After this, Balu became the official on-screen voice of Bollywood superstar Salman Khan. Be it ‘Dil Deewana’ from ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’ (1989) or the timeless song ‘Didi Tera Dewar Deewana’ sung with Lata Mangeshkar from ‘Hum Aapke Hain Koun…’ (1994).

Showed amazing in the world of dubbing also

In the world of dubbing, he had become the Telugu voice of Kamal Haasan. In the film ‘Dasavathaaram’ (2008), 7 out of 10 different characters of Kamal Haasan were written by S. P. Balasubramaniam brought alive the diversity of his voice. Apart from this, he also dubbed for Hollywood actor Ben Kingsley in the Telugu version of the film ‘Gandhi’.

Honored with many big honors

For his unprecedented contribution, the Government of India honored him with Padma Shri in 2001, Padma Bhushan in 2011 and Padma Vibhushan posthumously in 2021. The Andhra Pradesh government honored him with Nandi Awards a record 25 times.

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His legacy is still alive today

S. died on 5 September 2020 at MGM Hospital, Chennai. P. Balasubramaniam breathed his last. Paying tribute to his unbroken legacy, a bronze bust of him was unveiled on 15 December 2025 at Ravindra Bharati, Hyderabad in the presence of stalwarts of the country.

On one hand, ‘Thama’, which shows the story of blood-drinking vampires, is creating a stir, while on the other hand, ‘Ek Deewane Ki Diwaniyat’, the story of a lover who sacrifices his life for love, is succeeding in attracting the audience towards the big screen.

Meanwhile, the havoc of ‘Kantara Chapter 1’, which has been creating a huge storm at the box office for the last 23 days, is still not over. The storm of earnings of the film is blowing in such a way that the fear of ‘Sarkate Ka Terror’ and ‘Chudail’ also seems to be ending.

‘Kantara Chapter 1’, which is earning a lot even in front of ‘Thama’ of horror comedy universe, now seems to be moving ahead to break the record of blockbuster like ‘Stree 2’.

Will ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ break the record of ‘Stree 2’?

• The story of ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ is based on legends more than 5000 years old. People liked the story of Panjurli and Guliga Dev so much that now this film seems to be breaking the record of ‘Stree 2’ released last year.
• This film, directed by Rishabh Shetty, earned Rs 337.4 crore in the first week, Rs 147.85 crore in the second and Rs 78.85 crore in the third, according to Sacnilk. Today the film is doing business for its 23rd day and till 10:45 pm it has collected a total of Rs 566.33 crores while earning Rs 2.23 crores.
• Talking about ‘Stree 2’, it had earned Rs 597.99 crore in 13 weeks according to Sacknilk. That means ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ is only at a distance of about Rs 30 crores. As soon as it earns this much, Shraddha Kapoor’s film will be left behind.

Big heroes collapse in front of ‘Kantara Chapter 1’

‘Kantara Chapter 1’ has left behind many big Rs 500 crore films. You can see their list below.

• Animal- 553.87 crores
• Bahubali 2- 562 crores
• Pathan- 543.09 crores
• Gadar 2- 525.7 crores

Let us tell you that if this film of Rishabh Shetty, Gulshan Devaiah and Rukmini Vasant breaks the record of ‘Stree 2’, then soon after that ‘Chhaava’ (601.54 crores) will also be in danger.

The film has also made a good collection worldwide and has collected Rs 781.60 crore in just 22 days as per Sacnilk data.

Two big films ‘Jolly LLB 3’ and ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ are both stable at the box office and are earning decently. So let us know how much Akshay Kumar’s magic is working on Diwali and on the other hand, how many viewers is Rishabh Shetty’s film getting.

Box office collection of ‘Jolly LLB 3’

This comedy film of Akshay Kumar had earned Rs 74 crore in the first week, Rs 29 crore in the second and Rs 7.3 crore in the third. The film’s earning in the fourth week was Rs 3.9 crore. On the 29th day it was Rs 25 lakh, on the 30th day it was Rs 40 lakh and on the 31st day it increased to Rs 67 lakh.

Today, on the 32nd day of Diwali, people are coming to watch the film. According to Saknilk, till 4:35 pm the earning has reached Rs 19 lakh and the total collection has reached Rs 115.71 crore.

Box office collection of ‘Kantara Chapter 1’

Kannada film ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ collected Rs 337.4 crore in the first week and Rs 147.85 crore in the second week. On the 16th day, the film’s earnings decreased slightly and stopped at Rs 8.5 crores. But the film made a comeback on the 17th and 18th day, earning Rs 12.9 crore and Rs 17 crore respectively.

Today, on the occasion of Diwali, the film has collected a total of Rs 529.66 crore, earning Rs 6.16 crore so far, according to Sacknilk. Let us tell you that this data related to both the films available on Saknilk is not final at the moment. There may be change in this.

The release of ‘Thama’ will affect both the films.

Ayushmann Khurrana, Rashmika Mandanna and Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s film ‘Thamaa’ is going to hit the box office on October 21. This means that within a few hours, there is going to be a huge impact on the earnings of both ‘Jolly LLB 3’ and ‘Kantara Chapter 1’.

Due to less shows of both and the arrival of new films, the earnings at the box office may decrease. However, the earnings of both the films will be known by tomorrow, one day after Diwali.

Rishabh Shetty’s film ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ had already taken the record of the second highest grossing film of the year 2025 by breaking many records one after the other at the box office. Now even after spending 12 days in theatres, the film’s strong earnings are not stopping.

Not only this, it has broken the records of all the blockbusters released till date except 10 films. So let us first know the earnings of the film and then we will know which films’ record is currently safe in front of ‘Kantara Chapter 1’.

Box office collection of ‘Kantara Chapter 1’

By earning Rs 337.4 crore in the first extended week of 8 days, the prequel of 2022’s ‘Kantara’, ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ had left ‘Sayara’ behind. The film’s earning on the 9th day was Rs 22.25 crores, but on the 10th day, it reached Rs 39 crores with a huge jump.

On the 11th day, taking advantage of Sunday holidays, it increased to Rs 40 crore. Today i.e. on the 12th day, the film has collected a total of Rs 442.84 crores, earning Rs 4.44 crores till 5:10 pm. These figures available on SACNILC are not final. There may be changes in these.

Only these 10 films are ahead of ‘Kantara Chapter 1’

‘Kantara Chapter 1’ has left behind the lifetime earnings of all the blockbuster films released so far. There are only 9 films left whose record the film has not been able to break yet. Below, you can see the list of those 10 blockbusters according to Sacknilk.

1. Pushpa 2 The Rule- 1234.1 crores
2. Baahubali 2- 1030.42 crores
3. KGF 2- 859.7 crores
4. Kalki 2898 AD- 646.31 crores
5. Jawan- 640.25 crores
6. Chava- 601.54 crores
7. Stree 2- 597.99 crores
8. Animal- 553.87 crores
9. Pathan- 543.09 crores
10. Gadar 2- 525.7 crores

Worldwide collection of ‘Kantara Chapter 1’

Made under the direction of Rishabh Shetty, this film has been made with a budget of only Rs 125 crore. According to Saknilk, the film has made a worldwide collection of Rs 614.30 crore in just 11 days.

This film of Rukmini Vasanth, Gulshan Devaiah and Rishabh Shetty still has a full week’s time when it will not face any major competition. After this, there will be tough competition as soon as ‘Thamaa’ is released on the occasion of Diwali.

It has been 10 days since Rishabh Shetty’s film ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ arrived at the box office. The film was already earning handsomely. Now today being Saturday, there has been a huge surge in it as people have again flocked to watch the film during the weekend.

In a short time today, the film has also broken the record of that film which had earned Rs 2070.3 crore worldwide and Rs 374.43 crore in Hindi, according to Sacnilc. So, along with the collection of the film, let us also know which records the film has broken and created.

Box office collection of ‘Kantara Chapter 1’

The film had collected Rs 337.4 crore from Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Bengali languages ​​in the extended first week of 8 days. The film’s earning on the 9th day of the second week was Rs 22.35 crore. This earning was 5.67 percent more than the earning of Rs 21.15 crore on the 8th day.

On the 10th day, the collection of prequel of ‘Kantara’ has reached 17.61 crores till 5:05 pm. Talking about the total collection, it has reached Rs 377.26 crore. Please note that these data available on SACNILC are not final at present. There may be changes in these.

‘Kantara Chapter 1’ breaks the record of blockbuster ‘Dangal’

‘Kantara Chapter 1’ has overtaken the Hindi lifetime collection of Aamir Khan’s 2016 blockbuster ‘Dangal’. This film had earned more than 2000 crores worldwide. Let us tell you that this film still holds the record of India’s highest worldwide earning.

However, ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ has lagged behind the Hindi collection of the film on the 10th day. The Hindi collection of this film was 374.43 crores.

‘Kantara Chapter 1’ has still not been able to break the record of earning of ‘Dangal’ in all languages ​​in India. Aamir’s film had earned Rs 387.38 crore in all languages ​​together in India. However, this too will not remain safe for much longer.

Budget and Worldwide Collection of ‘Kantara Chapter 1’

‘Kantara Chapter 1’ has been made with a budget of only Rs 125 crore. According to Saknilk, the film has collected Rs 508 crore worldwide in 9 days. Rishabh Shetty and Rukmini Vasant are in important roles in this film. Let us tell you that the film has also been directed by Rishabh Shetty.

Sandalwood’s film ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ continues to earn like a tsunami at the box office. The film has one after the other broken the records of all the highest grossing films of Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam industries.

Not only this, the film also crossed the lifetime collection of ‘Sayyara’, the second highest grossing film of this year, in the blink of an eye. Now the target of the film is this year’s highest grossing ‘Chhaava’. So let us know how much more Rishabh Shetty will have to earn to get close to Vicky Kaushal’s film.

Box office collection of ‘Kantara Chapter 1’

You can see the different data of how much ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ has earned every day in the table given below. Today’s data available on Secnilk is as of 3:10 pm and is not final at this time. There may be change in this.

day	Box office collection (in crores)
Day 1	61.85
Day 2	45.4
Day 3	55
Day 4	63
Day 5	31.5
Day 6	34.25
Day 7	25.25
Day 8	20.25
Day 9	5.18
total	341.68

‘Kantara Chapter 1’ Vs ‘Chhaava’

The Bollywood film ‘Sayara’ released this year had made the record of the second highest grossing Indian film in 2025. According to Sacnilc, ‘Sayara’ had done a business of Rs 329.2 crore in 46 days. ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ defeated it in just 8 days.

• Now the target of the film is this year’s highest grossing film ‘Chaava’ which did a business of Rs 601.54 crore in its lifetime.
• That means ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ will have to earn around Rs 250 crore more to break the record of Chhawa. Looking at the way the film is earning, it seems that very soon this film may reach close to ‘Chhaava’.

Earnings of ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ are faster than ‘Chhaava’, 2 reasons which can make Rishabh Shetty a king

• ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ is hopeful of becoming number 1 because of the amount of earnings the Kannada film has earned so far. It took 11 days for ‘Chhaava’ to earn that much. ‘Chhaava’ could earn only Rs 344.75 crore in 11 days. Whereas ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ has earned much more than this in 9 days.
• The second reason is that more than 95 percent of the earnings of ‘Chhaava’ came from Hindi only and apart from Hindi, it was released only in Telugu where it did not get much collection. This is not the case with ‘Kantara Chapter 1’. It is earning well in Hindi and also in Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil.

The animated film ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ has surprised everyone with his brilliant performance, the film was released during the ‘Saira’ storm, yet it made its own identity. Even after the release of War 2 and Coolie, its earnings were expected to decline drastically, but it did not happen. Recently, the film completed a month in theaters, but its earnings are still going on. Let us know here what ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ has done wonders in the 32nd day of release i.e. the fifth Monday Test.

‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ earned how much on the 32nd day?
The Indian animated film ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’, released amidst very low expectations, has so far earned historic. In the animation genre, it has broken all the current records and has already become the highest -grossing Indian animated film. Its Telugu dubbed version has played an important role behind this success.

Please tell that Mahavatar Narasimha was released in five Indian languages: Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam. With the tremendous response of the audience, the film has earned a net of 231.75 crores at the Indian box office in 31 days, out of which it has collected the highest collection of 175.25 crores in the Hindi version. After this, it has earned 45.35 crores so far in the Telugu version. The rest have earned in other languages.

• According to the data of the same second, ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ has collected a collection of 1.25 crores on the 32nd day of release.
• With this, the total earnings of 32 days ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ have now been Rs 233 crore.

How far ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ from 250 crores
‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ has earned more than one crore on the 32nd day of its release. However, its earnings also saw a fifth decline. Amidst all this, now it is moving towards becoming 250 crores. If the film continues to do business like this and its earnings rise in its sixth weekend, then it can become 250 crores. It needs 17 crores to cross this milestone. It will be seen whether the film can touch this figure or not.

About ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’
The film is based on the mythology of Lord Narasimha, one of the ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu. It focuses on the divine incarnations of Vishnu, especially Narasimha, on the semi-human and semi-lion form, which Lord Vishnu assumed to defeat the demon King Hiranyakashyap and protect his devotee son Prahlad. The film was released in theaters 25 July 2025.

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‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ has so far earned in India above Rs 216 crore and worldwide above Rs 280 crore. If you compare the collection of this animated film from Bollywood films released this year, then there are only ‘Saira’ and ‘Chhava’. The box office collection of more than two dozen films of all other small and big stars has crossed when.

The film has also become the first animated film to earn so much, which is now going to touch the 300 crore mark. The film did not become such a big blockbuster. Behind this is the hard work of the team associated with it, which Ashwin Kumar has told in his interview on a YouTube channel named Mana Stars.

Intresses related to ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’

Ashwin Kumar, director of this film, explained the entire process of making a film in the interview. He told how hard he had to work to make this film. Also explained how to show such a good emotion in the film’s animated characters.

Ashwin Kumar says, “This was a big challenge, it used to take about 2 weeks to make a second of the film.”

Ashwin explains, ‘There are 24 images in a second and one of these images used to take 4-10 hours to render. In this way it used to take 2 weeks to make a 1 second video.

Where did the difficulty come while making ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’?

Ashwin Kumar also talked about the difficulty which was the most frustrating. He said, ‘After preparing a video of about 1 second to 10 seconds, when you did not like it, you used to process the same again.’

That is, this work is complete zero. He said, ‘All this was very tired. Ashwin says- It used to be as if you are running marathon again and again.

What was the most challenging

Ashwin Kumar told that the R&D of this film started in 2019-20. That is, before making the film, whatever was related to research, decoration and production, it had started 5-6 years before its release. Ashwin told that at that time when the film started, AI tools did not come.

Ashwin Kumar says, ‘The most creative challenge was to bring emotion in characters.

Why ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ became such a big hit

Ashwin Kumar said in a conversation with Hindustan Times, ‘The reason for this is that the film was so big a hit even after releasing in front of’ Fantastic Four First Steps’ and ‘Saira’ because they have adopted their history.

Ashwin Kumar has also revealed about the budget of the film. Earlier, different data were coming in different reports. Most of the reports were showing its budget 15 crores, but according to Ashwin Kumar, it has cost Rs 40 crore to make it.

‘War 2’-‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ was heavy on ‘Coolie’

Hrithik Roshan’s ‘War 2’, which was made in the budget of 400 crores, is not able to reach 10 crores as soon as he enters the weekedage. On the other hand, Rajinikanth’s ‘Coolie’ has a similar condition, while both films have a big star and big budget and they have been released.

So even after 27 days of release ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’, it is taking a business of 2 crore rupees every day. The amazing thing is that the opening of this film was just Rs 1.75 crore on the day of release and after a week, the small budget film started collecting notes equal to the recent collections of ‘War 2’ and ‘Coolie’ after many big competitions were revealed.

The craze of ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ and ‘Saira’ is still not over, while ‘War 2’ and ‘Coolie’ took place. Despite this, both small budget films are earning from the big films of Rajinikanth and Hrithik Roshan.

While the weekend is over, the earnings of ‘War 2’ and ‘Coolie have seen a rapid decline, then both these films are still resting at the box office. So let’s know that both of them earning so far and will also know if a new record is also made.

Box office collection of ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’

This animated film, made in the budget of only 15 crores, had collected a collection of Rs 210.5 crore and today it earned 1.41 crores till 9:05 pm and collected the total 211.91 crore. Today’s figure available on Sixelk is not yet final. It may change.

Let us know that this film has done a business of Rs 267 crore in worldwide 24 days.

‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ broke the record of ‘Salar Part 1’

In 24 days, the film has earned 159.6 crores from only Hindi version, leading the Hindi collection of Prabhas’s film ‘Salar Part 1’. Prabhas’s film earned Rs 152.65 crore from Hindi.

How is ‘Saira’ at the box office?

Now talking about ‘Saira’, despite the screenshire of this film of 60 crore budget, it did a business of Rs 50 lakh on Friday and Saturday of the last weekend. At the same time, the Sunday collection of the film was 60 lakhs. The film has gained 324.4 crore rupees in India in 31 days and 547 crore worldwide.

‘War 2’ may have a decreasing earnings Blessing for ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ and ‘Saira’

The earnings of ‘War 2’ have declined rapidly as soon as they enter the weekdays. If this decline continues, then both ‘Saira’ and ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ can get the benefit of it, such as the flop of ‘Baby John’, the Malayalam film ‘Marco’ had benefited and its shows were also increased. However, the view of the future will be clearly visible in the coming days that how much benefit these two films can get.

‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ has continued history at the box office when films like ‘War 2’ and ‘Kuli’ are causing havoc at the box office. This film, made in a very small budget, has left behind hundreds of such films including films of big stars which have been released this year.

The film today appeared to be overshadowed in a special case on ‘War 2’ and ‘Coolie’. Also, a very big film of big superstar like Shah Rukh Khan was also recorded a record break. So let’s know the earnings of the film so far and the records that it has made today on the 24th day.

Box office collection of ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’

According to CENILK, this animated film earned 44.75 crores, the second week 73.4 crores and the third week 70.2 crores. Despite Hrithik and Rajni’s film in front of Hrithik and Rajni on the 22nd day and 23rd day, it collected 7.25 crores and 6.75 crores and collected a total of 202.35 crores.

On reaching this figure, this film became the first film of India, which crossed the 200 crore mark. The film has collected Rs 209.07 crore by earning Rs 6.72 crore till 7:05 pm on the 24th day today. These figures are not final. It may change.

‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ was heavy on ‘Coolie’-‘War 2’ in this case

Although ‘Kuli’ and ‘War 2’ may be earning in the double figures, but the earnings of both films have decreased on Sunday as compared to opening day. Whereas after 24 days, today’s collection of ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ has reached more than the last 2 days.

‘Mahavatar Narasimha’ did ‘Saira’-‘Pathan’ behind

• Directed by Ashwin Kumar, the film has broken the record of Shah Rukh Khan’s film ‘Pathan’ in terms of fourth Sunday earnings. King Khan’s film collected only Rs 4.25 crore on this day.
• Recently released ‘Saira’ has achieved the title of blockbuster but it also earned only 4 crores. It has also been given an animated film Patakni.

Budget and worldwide collection of ‘Mahavatar Narasimha’

The budget of the film is only 15 crores and it has earned Rs 257 crore according to Sixelk in 23 days. Apart from this, this film has become the third highest grossing film at the domestic box office, leaving behind all the films released this year. Before this, there are only ‘Chhava’ and ‘Saira’.