Balu Mahendra

Balu Mahendra, renowned for classics such as 'Kokila' and 'Moondram Pirai', was honoured at a college event organized by Vetrimaaran's Film Culture Initiative on February 17. The event featured screenings, discussions, and tributes from notable industry figures including Vetrimaaran, Ilaiyaraaja, and others.

A tribute is expected to be paid to the late director Balu Mahendra at the National Awards ceremony today

Celebs pay tribute to Balu Mahendra

Ace cinematographer and veteran director Balu Mahendra celebrates his 74th birthday today

The 74 year old veteran died following a major heart attack

Celebrities from the industry will pay tribute to acclaimed director Balu Mahendra

At least 35 people from the film industry had gathered at University of Madras on Sunday to pay tribute to director.

Acclaimed director Balu Mahendra is admitted in Vijaya Hospital

Actors take to Twitter to pay their respects

The veteran filmmaker-cinematographer will be felicitated with a musical show next week

The veteran director canned the first shot for the actor's next

Director Bala showed the film to his mentor at a special screening

Balu Mahendra's dream of a film archive remains to be unfulfilled.

The film is nearing completion and is scheduled to release by August.

Sridevi has teamed up with Mahendra���s son Shanky for a documentary.

There were four boxes, which contained more than 500 DVDs. Even though the DVD format is outdated today, Ajayan said he would display the DVDs on a special shelf in memory of the filmmaker.

Legendary Balu Mahendra, is making a comeback after his last venture Adhu Oru Kanaa Kaalam

South Indian filmmaker Balu Mahendra, 74, who made the 1983 hit Sadma with Sridevi and Kamal Haasan, succumbed to a cardiac arrest in Chennai on Thursday morning

Acclaimed director Balu Mahendra passed away today.

Veteran director Balu Mahendra couldn't have wished for a better birthday gift two of his erstwhile assistants Vetrimaran and Seenu Ramasamy won national honours for their films.

For most of the film fraternity — from actors to directors to aspiring filmmakers — who came to pay their last respects to Balu Mahendra on Thursday afternoon, it was not just because he was an awardwinning cinematographer, director and storyteller. It was because they believed he was their greatest teacher of the craft.

When Balu Mahendra went over to persuade Amol Palekar, the favourite hero of middle-class cinema in Hindi, to act in a 'small' Malayalam film in the 1980s, he laid down two conditions .

Director Vetrimaaaran is shooting his Visaranai at Koothu Pattarai

Here are some highlights from that exclusive interview to Times of India

The filmmaker had begun his career in Sandalwood with Kokila

Kamal Haasan and Sridevi-starrer 'Moondram Pirai', which was directed by Balu Mahendra was strongly appreciated.

Balu Mahendra, one of Tamil cinema's best-known directors, died of heart attack on Thursday morning.

Shruti Haasan mourns death of Balu Mahendra

He remembers how Balu Mahendra used to call him as "Shree"

Veteran director-cinematographer Balu Mahendra opens up.