Jailer actor G Marimuthu suffers heart attack, dies at 57

Tamil industry’s esteemed director-actor G Marimuthu, who recently featured in Rajinikanth’s film Jailer, died on Friday, after suffering a major heart attack. He was just 57.

The news was confirmed by Ramesh Bala, South’s renowned trade analyst. He posted the information on X (earlier known as Twitter) on Friday.

SHOCKING : Popular Tamil Character Actor #Marimuthu passed away this morning due to cardiac arrest..

Recently, he developed a huge fan following for his TV Serial dialogues..

May his soul RIP! pic.twitter.com/fbHlhSesIy

— Ramesh Bala (@rameshlaus) September 8, 2023

Marimuthu became popular in the South for essaying crucial role in Tamil TV show Ethirneechal. He also worked as an assistant director with Mani Ratnam.   

Can't believe Actor #Marimuthu 's
dialogues in a recent episode of #EthirNeechal sadly happened in real life..

Tragic.. #RIPMariMuthu pic.twitter.com/T94u6Y9HiC

— Ramesh Bala (@rameshlaus) September 8, 2023

Deeply shattered to know the passing away of director G Marimuthu. We did #KannumKannum and #Pulivaal together. We had a brothers like bond. We agreed to disagree on many. His life wasn't easy at all. As an actor finally he was doing very well. He shud've been there for a while… pic.twitter.com/KewaK2Gzxk

— Prasanna (@Prasanna_actor) September 8, 2023

#WATCH | Tamil Nadu | People mourn the demise of director-actor G Marimuthu and pay tribute to him at his residence in Chennai. He died of cardiac arrest today around 8:30 am at a private hospital in the city.

He was last seen in superstar Rajinikanth's latest film 'Jailer'. pic.twitter.com/LAsqtUojaB

— ANI (@ANI) September 8, 2023

Who was G Marimuthu?

G. Marimuthu worked in the Tamil film industry and debuted as a director with Kannum Kannum (2008), after which he went on to make other ventures including Pulivaal (2014) and feature in supporting roles as an actor. As an actor, he was best known for the TV series Ethirneechal.