Legendary multilingual playback singer S.P. Balasubrahmaniam is undergoing intensive care treatment for lung infections due to coronavirus at the MGM hospital in Chennai. His son SPB Charan has expressed that his dad is showing signs of recovery and is now able to open his eyes and see around.

Kamal Haasan who shares close to fifty years of friendship with SPB has penned an emotional note in Tamil and Telugu writing "My dearest elder brother, we are waiting for you...You as my voice and me as your face have lived for many years..Your voice needs to heard for many more years...comeback soon my loving brother make it fast".

SPB has produced Kamal Haasan's Telugu films 'Swathi Muthyam', 'Saagara Sangamam' and 'Subha Sankalpam' all directed by his uncle K. Vishwanath. He has also dubbed for most films of Kamal in Telugu besides singing hundreds of hit songs over the years.

Kamal has in turn cast SPB in his films 'Guna', 'Avvai Shanmughi' and the unreleased 'Kandein Seethayai'.

அன்பிற்கினிய அன்னைய்யா, உங்களுக்காக நாங்கள் காத்திருக்கிறோம்.
எனது குரலாக நீங்களும், உமது முகமாக நானும் பல ஆண்டுகள் வாழ்ந்திருக்கிறோம்.
உங்கள் குரல் இன்னும் ஒலித்திட வேண்டும். மீண்டும் வாருங்கள். தொரகா ரண்டி அன்னைய்யா ??

— Kamal Haasan (@ikamalhaasan) August 16, 2020