Popular
Kollywood
movie
producer
V
Swaminathan
passed
away
today
(August
10)
due
to
COVID-19.
He
had
been
undergoing
treatment
in
a
private
hospital
in
Chennai
after
testing
positive
for
Coronavirus.
He
became
the
first
person
from
Tamil
film
industry
to
have
died
of
COVID-19.
V
Swaminathan
was
the
father
of
popular
comedy
actor
Ashwin
Raja.
He
had
also
done
cameos
in
some
of
the
movies
produced
by
him.
V
Swaminathan
was
in
a
partnership
with
K
Muralidharan
and
G
Venugopal
of
Lakshmi
Movie
Makers.
The
trio
produced
several
movies
in
Tamil
in
the
past
twenty
five
years.
Notably,
his
production
house
Lakshmi
Movie
Makers
has
produced
films
of
Tamil
actors
like
Thala
Ajith
and
Thalapathy
Vijay.
Ajith-starrer
Unnai
Thedi
(1999)
and
Unnidathil
Ennai
Koduthen
(1998)
were
super
hit
at
the
box
office.
On
the
other
hand,
Vijay-starrer
Priyamudan
(1998)
and
Bhagavathi
(2002)
also
did
good
business.
Kamal
Haasan
and
R
Madhavan-starrer
cult-classic
Anbe
Sivam
(2003)
was
also
produced
V
Swaminathan.
Apart
from
that,
the
producer
had
bankrolled
films
of
actors
like
Kamal
Haasan,
Vijayakanth,
Prabhu,
Karthik,
Suriya,
Madhavan,
Simbu
and
Dhanush.
V
Swaminathan's
death
is
indeed
a
big
loss
to
Kollywood.