An engineering graduate trained in Film and Broadcasting at the University of Iowa, Bala Kailasam worked in various capacities as Director, Producer, Script Writer, Editor, and Sound Recordist for several films and videos. He had a wide range of interests, including culture and aesthetics, and he was also an activist. In 1991 his documentary ‘Vaastu Marabu’ won the Best Film on Art and Culture in the 38th National Film Festival in India. An extremely innovative Producer, he managed to produce radically different programmes on main stream television in India. With the opening of the Indian skies to Satellite television from 1993 onwards, he withdrew from hands-on filmmaking and concentrated on nurturing the company ‘Min Bimbangal Productions Private Limited’ (MBPL) into a top-class Television Software Company. As the Creative and Business Head of MBPL he has produced more than 3000 hours of qualitatively differentiated programming in various Indian languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi. He was the Creative Head of Puthiya Thalaimurai TV, a 24 hours NEWS channel in Tamil, and led the launch of the channel from scratch and made it the No. 1 News Channel in Tamil within 3 months.