The S&P; 500 is a free-float capitalization-weighted index published since 1957 of the prices of 500 large-cap common stocks actively traded in the United States. The stocks included in the S&P; 500 are those of large publicly held companies that trade on either of the two largest American stock market exchanges: the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ.

The index focus is U.S.-based companies although there are a few companies with headquarters in and/or incorporated in other countries.

After the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P; 500 is one of the most commonly followed equity indices, is considered a bellwether for the American economy, and is included in the Index of Leading Indicators. Many mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and other funds such as pension funds, are designed to track the performance of the S&P; 500 index. Hundreds of billions of US dollars have been invested in this fashion.

The index is the best known of the many indices owned and maintained by Standard & Poor's, a division of McGraw-Hill. S&P; 500 refers not only to the index, but also to the 500 companies that have their common stock included in the index. The ticker symbol for the S&P; 500 index varies. Some examples of the symbol are ^GSPC,.INX, and $SPX. The stocks included in the S&P; 500 index are also part of the broader S&P; 1500 and S&P; Global 1200 stock market indices.

History

Standard & Poor's introduced its first stock index in 1923. Before 1957, its primary daily stock market index was the "S&P; 90", a value-weighted index based on 90 stocks. Standard & Poor's also published a weekly index of 423 companies. The S&P; 500 index in its present form began on March 4, 1957. Thanks to the computer technology emerging at the time, this index could be calculated and disseminated in real time. The S&P; 500 is widely employed as a measure of the general level of stock prices, as it includes both growth stocks and the generally less volatile value stocks.

The index reached an all-time intraday high of 1,552.87 in trading on March 24, 2000, during the dot-com bubble, and then lost approximately 50% of its value in a two-year bear market, spiking below 800 points in July 2002 and reaching a low of 768.63 intraday on October 10, 2002 during the stock market downturn of 2002. The S&P; 500 remained below its year 2000 all-time high somewhat longer than the popular Dow Jones Industrial Average and the more comprehensive Wilshire 5000. However, on May 30, 2007, the S&P; 500 closed at 1,530.23 to set its first all-time closing high in more than seven years. The highest point reached was 1,565.15 on October 9, 2007.

In mid-2007, difficulties stemming from subprime mortgage lending began spreading to the wider financial sector, resulting in the second bear market of the 21st century. The resulting crisis became acute in September 2008, ushering in a period of unusual volatility, encompassing record 100-point moves in both directions and reaching the highest levels since 1929. On November 20, 2008, the index closed at 752.44, its lowest close since early 1997. A modest recovery the following day still left the index down 45.5% for the year. This year-to-date loss was the greatest since 1931, when the broad market declined more than 50%; the total losses that ushered in the Great Depression exceeded 80% over a three-year period. The market continued to decline between late 2008 and early 2009 surrounding the events involving the financial crisis of 2008, reaching a nearly 13-year closing low at 676.53 on March 9. Subsequently, the index has recovered sharply to close at 1,206.07 on December 1, 2010, up over 78% from the low but still down by more than 23% from the 2007 high; this respite has been alternately characterized as heralding a return to economic growth, or a significant counter-trend bear market rally. On April 29, 2011, the S&P; 500 closed at 1,363.61, its highest close since June 5, 2008.

Selection

The components of the S&P; 500 are selected by committee. This is similar to the Dow 30, but different from others such as the Russell 1000, which are strictly rules-based.

The index does include a handful (11 as of July 5, 2011) of non-U.S. companies. This group includes both formerly U.S. companies that have reincorporated outside the United States, as well as firms that have never been incorporated in the United States.

The committee selects the companies in the S&P; 500 so they are representative of the industries in the United States economy. In addition, companies that do not trade publicly (such as those that are privately or mutually held) and stocks that do not have sufficient liquidity are not in the index. For example, Berkshire Hathaway has a market capitalization larger than nearly all members of the S&P; 500, but its extremely high stock price (over $100,000 for its higher-priced Class A shares as of January 2011) makes it very difficult to trade and so the committee excluded Berkshire from the index for many years. However, S&P; ultimately put Berkshire's lower-priced Class B shares into the index, replacing Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, which Berkshire acquired. This followed Berkshire's decision to split the Class B shares 50-to-1, which made those shares worth of an A share. By contrast, the Fortune 500 attempts to list the 500 largest public companies in the United States by gross revenue, regardless of whether their stocks trade or their liquidity, without adjustment for industry representation, and excluding companies incorporated outside the United States.

Components

Versions

The "S&P; 500" generally quoted is a price return index; there are also "total return" and "net total return" versions of the index. These versions differ in how dividends are accounted for. The price return version does not account for dividends; it only captures the changes in the prices of the index components. The total return version reflects the effects of dividend reinvestment. Finally, the net total return version reflects the effects of dividend reinvestment after the deduction of withholding tax.

Weighting

The index has traditionally been market-value weighted; that is, movements in the prices of stocks with higher market capitalizations (the ''share price'' times the ''number of shares outstanding'') have a greater effect on the index than companies with smaller market caps.

The index is now ''float weighted''. That is, Standard & Poor's now calculates the market caps relevant to the index using only the number of shares (called "float") available for public trading. This transition was made in two steps, the first on March 18, 2005 and the second on September 16, 2005.

Index maintenance

In order to keep the S&P; 500 Index comparable across time, the index needs to take into account corporate actions such as stock splits, share issuance, dividends and restructuring events (such as merger or spinoffs). Additionally, in order to keep the Index reflective of American stocks, the constituent stocks need to be changed from time to time.

To prevent the value of the Index from changing merely as a result of corporate financial actions, all such actions affecting the market value of the Index require a Divisor adjustment. Also, when a company is dropped and replaced by another with a different market capitalization, the divisor needs to be adjusted in such a way that the value of the S&P; 500 Index remains constant. All Divisor adjustments are made after the close of trading and after the calculation of the closing value of the S&P; 500 Index.

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Update frequency

The index is updated every 15 seconds during trading sessions.

Investing

Many index funds and exchange-traded funds attempt to replicate (before fees and expenses) the performance of the S&P; 500 by holding the same stocks as the index, in the same proportions. Many other mutual funds are benchmarked to the S&P; 500. Consequently, a company whose stock is added to the list of S&P; 500 stocks may see its stock price rise, as the managers of index funds normally choose to purchase that company's stock in order to continue tracking the S&P; 500 index. Several mutual fund managers also provide index funds that track the S&P; 500, the first of which was The Vanguard Group's Vanguard 500 in 1976. Many retirement plans offer such funds. For example, the Thrift Savings Plan's C Fund tracks the total return S&P; 500 index.

In addition to investing in a mutual fund indexed to the S&P; 500, investors may also purchase shares of an exchange-traded fund (ETF) which represents ownership in a portfolio of the equity securities that comprise the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. One of these ETF's is called the Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts; , originating from a chain of ETFs called the SPDRs, pronounced "spiders", and is issued by SSgA State Street Global Advisors. Typical volume for the SPY SPDR averages between 300-400 million shares per day; the highest of any US stock traded on any exchange.

On October 10, 2008, trading volume for the SPY SPDR surpassed 871 million shares; with a closing price of $88.50, the monetary value of traded shares which changed hands exceeded an astounding 77 billion dollars for the day. BlackRock offers the iShares S&P; 500 , which is similar to the SPDRs, but is structured differently. Both the SPDRs and the iShares have a management expense ratio of under 0.1% a year; making them an efficient proxy for the underlying index, while achieving a performance close to the S&P; 500 (minus fees and expenses).

Through RydexShares, fund manager Rydex also offers an ETF, the S&P; Equal Weight , which provides equal exposure to all the companies in the S&P; 500. In addition, Rydex offers other related S&P; 500 index ETFs such as the ''2x'' , which attempts to match the daily performance of the S&P; 500 by 200% and the ''Inverse 2x'' , which attempts to match the inverse daily performance by 200%. More heavily traded ProShares issued by ProFunds offer ''Inverse Performance'' for a bearish strategy on the index, Inverse 2x Performance , and 2x Performance . For additional leverage, ProFunds also offers ''3x Performance'' , which attempts to match the daily performance of the S&P; 500 by 300% as well as ''Inverse 3x Performance'' , which attempts to match the inverse daily performance of the S&P; 500 by 300%.

In the derivatives market, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) offers futures contracts that track the index and trade on the exchange floor in an open outcry auction, or on CME's Globex platform, and are the exchange's most popular product. Additionally, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) offers options on the S&P; 500 as well as S&P; 500 ETFs, inverse ETFs and leveraged ETFs.

Market statistics

Records (a)

Milestone	! Closing Level	! Date
100	100.38	June 4, 1968
200	201.41
300	301.16
400	404.84
500	500.97
600	600.07
700	701.46
800	802.77
900	904.03
1,000	1,001.27
1,100	1,105.65
1,200	1,202.84
1,300	1,307.26
1,400	1,403.28
1,500	1,500.64
Highest close	1,565.15
Highest intraday level	1,576.09

Total annual returns (b)

! Year	! AnnualReturn	! $1.00 InvestmentGives	! 5 YearAnnualized Return(g/i)=(1+ar)^5	! 10 YearAnnualized Return(g/i)=(1+ar)^10	! 15 YearAnnualized Return(g/i)=(1+ar)^15
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
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!High	37.58%		28.56%	19.21%	12.12%
!Low	−37.00%		−2.30%	−1.38%	6.46%
Compound annual growth rate>CAGR	8.80%	!	!	!	!
!Median	10.88%	!	!	!	! 10.92%

(a) These are the closing milestones of the price return S&P; 500 in 100-point increments, along with the all-time highs.

(b) Total returns including reinvested dividends, in percent. In other words, these are the changes in the total return version of the index.

See also

S&P; Completion

Standard & Poor's

List of S&P; 500 companies

Fortune 500

FTSE 100

S&P; 400

S&P; 600

S&P; 1500

S&P; 100

E-mini S&P;

Index fund

Exchange-traded fund

References

External links

CNN Money page for SPX

Overview of the S&P; 500 from Standard & Poor's

List of companies in the S&P; 500

S&P; 500 Fact Sheet (PDF Format)

Logarithmic Chart of S&P; 500 (1950-present) at Yahoo! Finance

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name	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
birth name	Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam
birth date	June 04, 1946
birth place	Konetammapeta, Madras Presidency, British India
origin	Andhra Pradesh, India
residence	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
genre	Playback singing
occupation	Singer, actor, music director, film producer
awards	Padma Bhushan, Padmashri, Honorary Doctorate
years active	1965–present
Website	Official website
background	solo_singer }}

Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam( ; born 4 June 1946) is a multilingual Indian playback singer, actor, music director, voice actor and a film producer. He is referred to as S. P. B. or Balu by the media. He has won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer six times closely following K. J. Yesudas. He has sung over 40,000 songs in 15 Indian languages with a career spanning over 4 decades. Starting his career in 1966, he went on to become one of the leading playback singers of his time in India. He is the only playback singer in India to have won National Film Awards across four languages. He has also won a Filmfare Award, three Filmfare Awards South and numerous state awards from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. He holds the record of having recorded the most number of songs for any male playback singer. He is a recipient of the civilian awards such as Padmashri (2001) and Padma Bhushan (2011) from the Government of India.

Early life and background

Balasubrahmanyam was born to S. P. Sambamurthy in Konetammapeta of Nellore district in Andhra Pradesh. Balasubrahmanyam's father was a Harikatha artist who had also acted in plays. He has two brothers and five sisters. He is the elder brother of singer S.P. Sailaja. He is married to Savitri and has two children, Pallavi and S. P. B. Charan who is a playback singer and film producer as well.

Balasubrahmanyam developed an interest towards music at an early age, studied notations and learned to play instruments such as the harmonium and flute on his own while listening to his father. His father wanted him to become an engineer, which brought him to Anantapur, where he enrolled for the Engineering course at JNTU College of Engineering Anantapur. Later he discontinued the course due to typhoid, and then joined as an Associate Member of the Institution of Engineers, Chennai. Meanwhile, he also pursued his hobby and won awards at many singing competitions. In 1964, he won the first prize in a music competition for amateur singers organised by the Madras-based Telugu Cultural Organisation, and earned his first opportunity from music director S. P. Kodandapani.

After dropping out of enginnering, Balasubrahmayam used to regularly visit music composers seeking for opportunities to sing. The first song that he sang for an audition was, "Nilave Ennidam Nerungadhe", a melody rendered by veteran playback singer P. B. Srinivas. It was P. B. Srinivas who used to write and give him some multi-lingual verses in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, English and Urdu.

Playback singing Career

Balasubrahmanyam has sung more than 40,000 songs in more than 15 different Indian languages, including Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, English, Bengali, Oriya, Punjabi, Tulu, Sanskrit, Assamese, Konkani, Badaga and Gondi. He holds the record of having sung the most number of songs for any male playback singer in the world.

Early career: 1960s

Before becoming a full-fledged cinema singer, Balu was the leader of a light music troupe composed of: ''Anirutta'' (on the harmonium), Ilaiyaraaja, (on guitar and later on harmonium), Baskar (on percussion), and Gangai Amaran (on guitar). Balasubrahmanyam made his debut as a playback singer on 15 December 1966 with ''Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna'', a Telugu film scored by his mentor, S. P. Kodandapani. He was selected as the best singer in a singing competition which was judged by S. P. Kodandapani and the legendary singer Ghantasala. Balasubrahmanyam was selected as the best singer, subsequent to which S P Kodandapani played a major role in moulding his career. He recorded his first non-Telugu song in the 1969 film ''Shanthi Nilaiyam'', a Tamil film starring Gemini Ganesan. From then on, he became the most sought-after singer in both Telugu and Tamil film industries. His song "Aayiram Nilavae Vaa" for M.G.R in the Tamil film, ''Aadimai Penn'' became very popular and he etched himself a niche for him in Tamil films. From there on it was no looking back for him. He was introduced to Malayalam film industry by R. K. Shekhar, father of A. R. Rahman in the film ''Yogamullava''. Subsequently, he became popular in 1969 with the song "Ee Kadalum Marukadalum" from the film ''Kadalppalam'' in Malayalam.

Prominence in South: 1970s

He received his first National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer in 1980 for the Telugu film ''Shankarabharanam'', a film directed by K. Vishwanath. In 1976, he recorded up to 23 songs, including 15 duets with P. Susheela in a single day. For Kannada composer Upendra Kumar, Balasubrahmanyam recorded 16 songs in just 6 hours. Again for Ram Laxman, he recorded six songs in 4 hours in Mumbai. Between three recording theatres in Mumbai, he sang 17 songs in a day for Anand-Milind.

He is the recipient of the first "Ghantasala National Award" named after the famous and legendary singer Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao, and whom S P Balu admires a lot. SP Balu often praises himself as "Ekalavya Sishya/disciple" of the legendary singer ghantasala

Bollywood entry: 1980s

Balasubrahmanyam's first break in Hindi films was ''Ek Duje Ke Liye'' (1981), for which he received the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer. He was playback singer for Bollywood actor Salman Khan in most of his movies from 1989 to 1995.

1990s

In the 1990s he worked with composers like Vidyasagar, M. M. Keeravani, S. A. Rajkumar but his association with A. R. Rahman turned out be a major success.

The song "Umandu Ghumandu" from the Kannada film ''Ganayogi Panchakshari Gavayi'' (1995) was based on Hindustani classical music.

Association with composers

;Colloboration with M. S. Viswanathan M. S. Viswanathan used S.P.B's voice in the 1970s various Tamil movies. Under his composition S.P.B got opportunities to sing for senior actors like M. G. Ramachandran, Sivaji Ganesan and Gemini Ganesan during this period. SPB recorder numerous duet numbers with P. Susheela, Vani Jayaram and L. R. Eswari.

;Colloboration with K. V. Mahadevan Balasubrahmanyam recorded many songs with K. V. Mahadevan throughout the 1970s, mostly in Telugu. The duo worked in a film called ''Shankarabharanam'' in 1979 which was based on carnatic music. He got his first National Film Award through this film.

;Colloboration with Ilaiyaraaja Balasubrahmanyam's association with Ilaiyaraaja began in the late 1970s when the latter made his cinematic debut. Balasubrahmanyam began to record more songs in Tamil especially for Ilaiyaraaja. The Ilaiyaraaja-S.P.B-S. Janaki trio was considered to be highly successful in the Tamil film industry from the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. The trio went on to work in Telugu films based on classical music like ''Saagara Sangamam'' (1983), for which both Ilaiayaraaja and S.P.B won National Film Awards, ''Swathi Muthyam'' (1986) and ''Rudraveena'' (1988) which again fetched National Awards for Ilaiyaraaja and S.P.B

;Colloboration with Hamsalekha Balasubramanyam's association with Hamsalekha began after the latters successful venture premalokha in kannada. Balasubramanyam sung most number of songs for Hamsalekha in kannada. He also got national award for the song 'Umandu Gumundu' of the movie 'Ganayogi pachakshari gavayi' composed by Hamsalekha.

;Association with A. R. Rahman Balasubrahmanyam recorded two songs for A. R. Rahman in his debut film ''Roja''. He had a long time association with Rahman right from ''Roja'', the latter's debut film. Other popular songs include "July Maadham" from ''Pudhiya Mugam'', which also marked the debut of singer Anupama, "Mannoothu Manthayilae" from ''Kizhakku Cheemayile'' which was a folk number and he almost sang all songs in the musical love story ''Duet'' and "Thanga Thaamarai" from ''Minsara Kanavu'' which fetched his sixth and last National Film Award till date.

Non singing career

As actor

As an actor he enacted memorable roles in films like ''Pakkinti Ammaayi'', ''Parvathaalu Paanakalu'', ''Pelli Varahandi'', ''Kalyanathasava'', ''Malle Pandiri'', ''Raja Hamsa'', ''Merupu Kalalau'',''Manathil Uruthi Vendum'', ''Thiruda Thiruda'', ''Keladi Kanmani'', ''Sigaram'', ''Maya'', ''Avvai Shanmugi'', ''Rakshagan'', ''Nandhini'', ''Kaadalan'', ''Prema Maha Yedabidargi'', ''Maya Bazaar''. He has performed character roles in more than 45 films including Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada.

As music composer

He has composed music for around 40 films and gave memorable albums like ''Seethamma Pelli'', ''Bharyamani'', ''Sandarbha'', ''Bangaru Chilaka'', ''Mayuri'', ''Ramanna Shyamanna'', ''Ksherasaagara'', ''Devaralle Dane'', ''Belliyappa Bangarappa'' beside few films like ''Muddina Maava'', ''Sigaram'', ''Unnai Charanadaithaen'' in Tamil and Kannada. He also owns a production company called ''Kodandapani Film Circuits'' (now Captain cine creations) and produces film under this banner. Films like ''Subha Sankalpam'', ''Bhamane Satya Bhamane'' were produced by him.

Television career

He started of with a Tamil serial with actress Lakshmi called "jannal" directed by K.balachander. Now he hosts many music shows in Telugu Television including ''Paadutha Theeyaga'' on E-TV, ''Paadalani Undi'' on MAA TV, a Kannada show called ''Ede Thumbi Haaduvenu'' on E-TV Kannada, and the Tamil shows ''Ennodu Paattu Paadungal'' on JAYA-TV and ''Vaanampaadi'' on Kaliagnar TV. He also anchors a music show called ''Sunada Vinodini'' on TTD Channel.

As voice actor

Balasubrahmanyam accidentally became a dubbing artist with Kamal Hassan's Movie ''Manmadha Leela'' ( dubbed version of Manmadha Leelai ). He has also provided voice-overs for various artists, including Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth, Salman Khan, K. Bhagyaraj, Mohan, Anil Kapoor, Girish Karnad, Gemini Ganesan, Arjun Sarja, Nagesh, Karthik and Raghuvaran in various languages. He was assigned as the default dubbing artist for Kamal Hassan in Telugu dubbed versions of Tamil films and vice versa. For the Telugu version of Dasavathaaram he gave voice to 7 characters (including the female character) out of 10 characters played by Kamal Hassan. He was awarded Best Dubbing Artist for the films ''Annamayya'' and ''Sri Sai Mahima''.

Humanitarian work

He is the Chairman of ''Kodandapani Audio Labs'', Chennai. He also owns a charitable trust named S. P. Sambamurthy Foundation, named after his father, an organization to help the poor and needy.

Awards and honors

Filmography

As actor

''Pellante Noorella Panta'' ''Muhammad bin Tughluq (film) ''Pakkinti Ammayi'' ''Baalondu Chaduranga'' Telugu ''Bharat 2000'' Kannada ''Manathil Uruthi Vendum'' ''Prema'' Telugu ''Keladi Kanmani'' Tamil Tamil Tamil ''Koteswaran'' Tamil Tamil Telugu ''Thiruda Thiruda'' Kannada ''Jolly'' Tamil ''Raja Hamsa'' ''Drohi'' Tamil Tamil Telugu Tamil Telugu Tamil ''Devullu'' Telugu Telugu Tamil Tamil Telugu ''Bharathan'' Tamil Kannada Telugu Telugu ''Aaro Pranam'' Telugu Telugu Telugu Telugu ''Goppinti Alludu'' Telugu Tamil Tamil ''Chirujallu'' ''Indra (film) Telugu Tamil ''Magic Magic'' Telugu Kannada ''Royela'' ''Mayabazaar'' Telugu ''Yen Uyirinum Melana'' Telugu Telugu Kannada Telugu Kannada ''Naanayam'' ''Shakti (2011 film)

Year	Movie name	Language	Director	Producer	Role
1969	|	Telugu language>Telugu	Muthyala Subbaiah
1971	Mohammed Bin Tuglaq'' ||	Tamil language>Tamil	Cho Ramaswamy		Guest role in a song
1980	|	Telugu	K. Vasu	A. Sarathy	Bala Raju
rowspan="2"	1982	|	Kannada language>Kannada	Dore Bhagavan
''Malle Pandiri''	|	Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry>Jandhyala	Challa Venkatramaiah
rowspan="2"	1983	|	Kannada
''Tirugu Bhana''	|	K. S. R. Doss
1987	|	Tamil	K. Balachander	Kavithalaya Films	As a doctor
rowspan="2"	1988	|	Telugu	Suresh Krishna (director)>Suresh Krishna
''Vivaha Bhojanambu''	|	Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry>Jandhyala
rowspan="4"	1990	|	Tamil	Vasanth		A. R. Rangaraj (primary character)
''Palai Vanna Ragangal''	|
''Sigaram''	|	Ananthu	Kavithalaya Films	As a music director
''Thalai Vaasal''	|	Selva (director)>Selva	As a college principal
rowspan="4"	1992	|	Tamil			Father of hero
''Thyagu''	|
''Guna (film)	Guna''	|			Police officer
''Parvathalu Paanakalu''	|	Muthyala Subbaiah	V. Vijay Kumar Varma	Lead role friend of Parvathalu (Dasari Narayana Rao)
rowspan="2"	1993	|	Tamil	Mani Ratnam	S. Sriram	Lakshmi Narayanan CBI
''Muddina Maava''	|	Om Sai Prakash	K. Prabhakar	Ramayya
rowspan="2"	1994	|	Telugu			Teacher
''Kadhalan''	|	S. Shankar>Shankar	K. T. Kunjumon	As Father of Prabhu Deva - Policeman
1995	|	Telugu			As doctor, family friend
rowspan="7"	1996	|	Telugu
''Kadhal Desam''	|	Kathir	K. T. Kunjumon	Divya's father
''Minsara Kanavu''	|	Rajeev Menon	M. Saravanan (film producer)>M. Saravanan, M. S. Guhan	Thangadurai
''Myna''	|
''Nandini''	|			Guest role
''Pavithra Bandham''	|	Muthyala Subbaiah		Venkatesh`s Father
''Avvai Shanmughi''	|	K. S. Ravikumar	R. Ravindran, K. P. Hari	As a doctor
rowspan="6"	1997	|	Telugu	Kodi Ramakrishna	Haribabu Chegondi, Rambabu Karatam	Lord Vinayaka
''Pellivaramandi''	|	K. Veeru	V. Jayasri, A. Prakash
''Prena''	|
''Ullaasam''	|	J. D. Jerry>J. D. and Jerry	Amitabh Bachchan	As a bus driver - Ajith Kumar's father
''Ratchagan''	|	Praveen Gandhi	K. T. Kunjumon, Francis Joseph	LIC Padmanabhan ( Nagarjuna`s father)
''w/o Vara Prasad''	|	Vamsy	Ram Gopal Varma	As Vineeth's grandfather
rowspan="5"	1998	|	Tamil
''Paattu Paadavaa''	|			Giridharan
''Sandhrba''	|
''Uyala''	|	S. V. Krishna Reddy		As a doctor
''Pelladi Chupistha''	|
rowspan="5"	1999	|	Telugu		K Veeru	Father of hero (Vineeth)
''Dheerga Sumangali Bhava''	|	S. V. Krishna Reddy
''Mechanic Maavaiah''	|
''Paadutha Theeyaga''	|			Father of heroine
''Pedda Manushulu''	|
rowspan="4"	2000	|	Telugu	E V V Satyanarayana	Nandamuri Rama Krishna	Balakrishna's father
''Manasu Paddanu Kanni''	|
''Maya''	|
''Priyamaanavale''	|	K. Selvabharathi	C. Venkata Raju, G. Sivaraju	Vishwanath
2001	|	Telugu	Shriram Balaji	G. V. G Raju
rowspan="3"	2002	Indra'' ||	Telugu	B. Gopal	Vyjayanthi Movies	As Himself
''Padharella Ammayi''	|	Krishna Mohan Reddy
''April Maadhathil''	|	S. S. Stanley	V. Gnanavelu, V. Jayaprakash	As himself
rowspan="3"	2003	|	Malayalam language>Malayalam	Jose Punnoose	Navodaya	Acharya
''Fools''	|	Dasari Narayana Rao	Ravindra Babu	Guest role
''Maha Yedabidangi''	|
2004	|	Telugu
rowspan="2"	2006	|	Telugu	Mohana Krishna	RKK Films Banner	As Lord Kubera
''Roommates''	|	Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam>AVS	Visu Films Pvt Ltd	As himself
rowspan="6"	2007	|	Tamil	K. R. Jaya	N. Thirumuragan
''Astram''	|	Suresh Krishna (director)>Suresh Krishna	Raju Hirwani
''Kallu''	|	M. V. Raghu
''Kalyanothasava''	|			Retired army captain
''Malle Pandiri''	|
''Mangalyam Tanthu Naanena''	|			Ravichandran's father
2010	|	Tamil	Shakthi S.Rajan	SPB Charan	CEO Viswanath
2011	Shakti'' ||	Telugu	Meher Ramesh	C. Ashwini Dutt	Co-starring NTR Jr.

Television career

Name	Language	Notes
''Nadhi Enge Pogiradhu''	Tamil language>Tamil
''Jannal''	Tamil language>Tamil
''Vaanam Paadi''	Tamil language>Tamil
''Paadutha Theeyaga''	Telugu language>Telugu
''Paadalani Undhi''	Telugu language>Telugu
''Endaro Mahanubhavulu''	Telugu language>Telugu
''Ennodu Pattu Paadungal''	Tamil language>Tamil
''Edhe Thumbi Haaduvenu''	Kannada language>Kannada

As music composer

Year	Movie name	Language	Director	Producer/banner
1977	''Kanya Kumari''		Dasari Narayana Rao	Sarigama Arts
1978	''Sandarbha''	Kannada
	''Captain Krishna''	Telugu	K. S. R. Das
''Ra Ra Krishnayya''	Telugu
''Thoorpu Velle Railu''	Telugu
				S.K. Films
	''Ohamma Katha''	Telugu	Vasanta Sen
''Sangeeta''	Telugu
''Thaiyyalkaaran''	Tamil		Kalaipuli International
	''Thudikkum Karangal''		Sridhar	K. R. Gangadharan
''Uranta Sankranti''	Telugu	Dasari Narayana Rao
	''Bharyamani''	Telugu	Vijaya Bapineedu	Srinivasa Productions
''Mantri Gaari Viyyankudu''	Telugu
''Seethamma Pelli''	Telugu		Muddu Art Movies
	''Bangaru Chilaka''	Telugu		Maheswari Movies
''Bullet''	Telugu
''Devaralledane''	Kannada		Chamundi Production
''Dongallo Dora''	Telugu
''Jockey''	Telugu		Muddu Art Movies
''Kongumudi''	Telugu	Vijaya Bapineedu	Raghavendra Cine Creations
	Tamil	Singeetam Srinivasa Rao	B.R. Creations in association with ushakiran movies
	Telugu	Singeetam Srinivasa Rao	Usha Kiran Movies
''Muddula Manavaralu''	Telugu		Muddu Art Movies
	''Bete''	Kannada		Vajragiri Films
''Maghadeerudu''	Telugu		Shyam Prasad Arts
''Naach Mayuri''			Lakshmi Productions
''Padamati Sandhya Ragam''	Telugu		Gummaluri Sastry, Meer Abdulla
''Sowbhagyalakshmi''	Kannada	Bhargava	Vasu Chitra
	''Gouthami''	Telugu		Radha Madhava Films
''Lawyer Suhasini''	Telugu	Vamsy	Jayakrishna Combines
''Pratima''	Telugu
''Ramu''	Telugu		Suresh Productions
	''Chinnodu Peddodu''	Telugu	Relangi Narasimha Rao	Sridevi Movies
''Kallu''	Telugu	M. V. Raghu	Mahashakthi Films
''Neeku Naaku Pellanta''	Telugu		J.J. Movies
''Oh Bharya Katha''	Telugu	Mouli	Ushakiron Movies
''Premayanam''	Telugu		Ushakiron Movies
''Ramanna Shyamanna''	Kannada	B. Subbarao	Vasu Chitra
''Vivaaha Bhojanam''	Telugu		J.J. Movies
1990	''Siddartha''	Telugu
	''Mahayagnam''	Telugu
''Sigaram''	Tamil	Ananthu	Kavithalaya Productions
''Jaithra Yaatra''	Telugu		Sravanthi Movies
	''Belliyappa Banagarappa''	Kannada	Poorna Prajna	Madhu Bangarappa
''Ksheera Saagara''	Kannada	Singeetam Srinivasa Rao
1993	''Muddina Maava''	Kannada	Om Sai Prakash	Vijaya Sridevi Combines
2003	''Unnai Charanandhen''	Tamil	Samuthirakani	Capital Cine Works

References

http://www.desiblitz.com/content/sp-balasubrahmanyam DESIblitz.com

External links

Collection of S. P. Balasubrahmanyam songs

S. P. Balasubrahmanyam at IMDb

S. P. Balasubrahmanyam spotlight at DESIblitz.com

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