Overview
- The filmmaker died on December 28 in Chennai after being treated for a heart ailment, according to his daughter.
- Most reports list his age as 87, though one obituary reports 88, creating a minor discrepancy.
- He was best known for the four-hour Indus Valley to Indira Gandhi, which traced roughly 5,000 years of history and secured international release via Warner Brothers.
- A Columbia-trained documentarian, he founded Krishnaswamy Associates in 1963 and tackled sensitive subjects from Operation Blue Star to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict.
- Honors included the Padma Shri in 2009 and the Dr. V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020, with tributes led by Rajya Sabha MP P. Chidambaram.