Dr. S. Krishnaswamy.
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Acclaimed documentary and television filmmaker and founder of Krishnaswamy Associates, S. Krishnaswamy, who produced over 900 non-fiction films including the famed “Indus Valley to Indira Gandhi”, died on Sunday (December 28, 2025) evening at a hospital in Chennai. He was 88.
He had been under treatment for a heart ailment and visited the hospital on Sunday evening (December 28, 2025), his daughter Gita Krishnaraj said. He is survived by his wife Mohana Krishnaswamy, and three children.
Born in Chennai (then Madras) to iconic film director K. Subrahmanyam and lyricist Meenakshi Subrahmanyam, he joined the Columbia University in the U.S. in 1960 and studied mass communications with special reference to documentary films. He founded Krishnaswamy Associates in 1963.
In 2009, he received the Padma Shri and in 2020, the Dr. V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to documentary films at the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF). His other awards include the Honor Summus Award of the Watumull Foundation, Hawaii, the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 at the U.S. International Film and Video Festival, Los Angeles, in 1987.
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Published – December 28, 2025 09:47 pm IST
