Trivia

He was a handsome person and had the ability to sing in bass voice.

After passing the S. S. L. C. examination, he married and begot 3 children.

With his success as an actor he embarked on production of films. He leased National Movietone Studio on Poonamallee High Road, Chennai and changed its name as Bharat Cinetone.

While he was working in the Cosmopolitan club he came in contact with a member of the club Ananthanarayanan Narayanan, who established Srinivasa Cinetone, the first sound recording studio of south India in Kilpauk. Narayanan introduced Swaminathan into films.

Swaminathan, known as Serukalathur Sama, had good looks and singing talent. He was cast as Lord Krishna in most of the films.

He learned Carnatic music along with academic studies.

He went to Madras in search of employment. There he worked as a clerk for 2 months in the office of the Indian National Congress Party and then for 10 years in the Cosmopolitan Club.

When he was 5 years old his mother died and the father remarried. So Swaminathan went to live with his uncle in Thanjavur.

His first production was Shylock, (Tamilized as Shailak) adapted from Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice. He directed the film along with his lawyer friend and signed as Sama-Ramu.

He was an Indian actor who was primarily known for playing the role of the Hindu god Krishna in Tamil language Hindu mythological films of the 1930s and 1940s.