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Acclaimed documentary and tv filmmaker and founder of Krishnaswamy Associates, S. Krishnaswamy, who produced implicit 900 non-fiction films including the famed “Indus Valley to Indira Gandhi”, died connected Sunday (December 28, 2025) evening astatine a infirmary successful Chennai. He was 88.
He had been nether attraction for a bosom ailment and visited the infirmary connected Sunday evening (December 28, 2025), his girl Gita Krishnaraj said. He is survived by his woman Mohana Krishnaswamy, and 3 children.
Born successful Chennai (then Madras) to iconic movie manager K. Subrahmanyam and lyricist Meenakshi Subrahmanyam, helium joined the Columbia University successful the U.S. successful 1960 and studied wide communications with peculiar notation to documentary films. He founded Krishnaswamy Associates successful 1963.
In 2009, helium received the Padma Shri and successful 2020, the Dr. V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award for his publication to documentary films astatine the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF). His different awards see the Honor Summus Award of the Watumull Foundation, Hawaii, the Lifetime Achievement Award successful 2005 astatine the U.S. International Film and Video Festival, Los Angeles, successful 1987.
