The entire film industry was deeply shocked when the news of popular producer V Swaminathan’s demise flashed on the screens. The producer had succumbed to COVID-19 on August 10.
Late producer Swaminathan, along with his two partners - Muralidharan and Venugopal produced films under the banner of Lakshmi Movie Makers. It is worth-mentioning that one among those films were STR’s Silambattam.
The actor who turned emotional on the demise of his hit producer has released a statement in which he wrote that the late producer was very close to him and took good care of him as a brother during the shooting of Silambattam in Sri Lanka.
He further also said that he could not even go and meet him in his last days because of the virus and assures to be of great support to the producer’s sons, Ashwin (actor, of Kumki and Boss Engira Baskaran fame) and Ashok (a filmmaker).