Sundaram Balachander (18 January 1927 – 13 April 1990) was an Indian veena player and filmmaker.

[2] Balachander began as a child artist in the Tamil film Seetha Kalyanam in 1934, in which many members of his family acted.

[7][8] S Balachander claimed that the composer Swati Tirunal was a figment of history's imagination, and he did not even exist.

He accused Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer of passing off his own compositions as Swati Tirunal's.

[9] S Balachander was actively involved in the Swati Tirunal dispute at the time of his death.