Nagappa Veeraswamy was Indian film producer and distributor, who produced under the house, Eshwari Productions. He produced 17 Kannada films and one Hindi film, from the early 1970s till his death in 1992.Veeraswamy was born on 17 April 1932 in Otteri, in the erstwhile North Arcot district of Madras Presidency, into a Tamil-speaking family of Mudaliars, of Nagappa and Kamakshamma. He began his association with cinema in the early 1950s when he worked as an attendant with Dreamland Pictures Corporation. In 1955, he started out as a film distributor with his friend Gangappa, under the banner Udaya Pictures. In 1962, he founded the production house Eshwari Productions.