![]() ![]() Recently, however, Lady Luck seemed to have abandoned him. ![]() His films always had an urbane, aesthetic appeal and great music, most of which were composed by the maestro, Ilayaraja. Directed by Mani Ratnam, all of them turned out to be box-office blockbusters. ![]() GV, who made nearly 18 movies, produced path-breaking Tamil films like Kamal Haasan's Nayakan, Rajinikanth's Dalapati, the Karthik-Prabhu starrer, Agni Nakshatram and Anjali, the moving story of a mentally underdeveloped child. His father, the late Ratnam Iyer, produced some successful family melodramas under the banner Venus Pictures. GV, a qualified chartered accountant, revived the family's interest in films when he was in the mid-thirties. Though the reason behind his death is not known - there has been no mention of a suicide note - 56-year-old Venkateshwaran, who was popularly known as GV, had reportedly made some bad financial decisions in recent years. He is survived by his wife and two children, a son and a daughter, and his brother, filmmaker Mani Ratnam ( Roja, Bombay). Tamil film producer, distributor and financier G Venkateswaran committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in his Chetput home in Chennai this morning.
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