He is the son of the singer S. P. Balasubrahmanyam. He first worked as a playback singer in Tamil and Telugu. He made acting debut in Maha Edabidangi (1999) and is best known for his performance in the Saroja (2008).[3] He has established the film production company Capital Film Works, and produced critically acclaimed Chennai 600028 (2007), Aaranya Kaandam (2012) and others.[4]
Early life
Charan was born to the singer S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and his wife Savitri in a Telugu family. Charan was born and raised in Chennai, India. he has an elder sister named Pallavi, who is also a singer. He studied at Asan Memorial School, Chennai, in which actor Ajith Kumar has also studied and was a school friend of him. He received a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Pace University in New York, United States in 1994 and completed a two-year course in film and television.[5][6]
Charan first acted with his father in a film called Maha Yedabidangi, directed by K. S. L. Swamy, but the film was not released.[10][11] Balachander's son Kailasam approached him to act in the television show Oonjal, produced by K. Balachander and directed by Sundar K. Vijayan.[6] It was followed by Radan's Annamalai. He also starred in a TV serial named Bommaigal in Tamil and Akka Chellulu in Telugu.[5] His first release was the Kannada film Hudugigagi in 2003, directed by B. Manjunath.[12] In 2008, he played one of the lead roles in Venkat Prabhu's Saroja. On his performance, Sify wrote: "S.P.B Charan as Jagapathy Babu suits the role and is fantastic".[13] He acted in Va, in which he played Shiva's prospective brother-in-law.[8] He acted in two Tamil films Vanavarayan Vallavarayan and Vizhithiru.[14]
Other works
Charan established the film production company Capital Film Works, in 2002. Their first production was Unnai Charanadainthen, in which Charan played the lead role, alongside his friend Venkat Prabhu.[4][15] The film, which notably featured musical score by Charan's father, Balasubrahmanyam, received four Tamil Nadu State Film Awards.[4] Charan revealed that he decided to produce the film after hearing Samuthirakani's narration.[6] He further produced the Jayam Ravi-starrer Mazhai (2005), a remake of the Telugu film Varsham,[16] which was a failure at the box office.[6] His next production was Venkat Prabhu's directorial debut Chennai 600028 (2007), featured eleven newcomers in the lead and became one of the year's most successful Tamil films.[6][17] In 2011, his sixth production Aaranya Kaandam, was released to critical acclaim and became noted for getting 52 cuts by the regional Central Board of Film Certification.[18] Although it did not achieve the expected box office success, Charan won a National Film Award as a producer of the film.[19] His next production was Thirudan Police, by another debutant, Caarthick Raju.[20]
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