Bengaluru: Srihari L Khoday, a noted industrialist, breathed his last at a private hospital in the Bengaluru on Monday night. Khoday was 77. He is survived by three sons and two daughters.

He was hospitalised for over a month and breathed his last at 8.30 pm on Monday. Khoday was the vice chairman and Managing Director of Khoday India Limited, the public listed company of the Khoday Group, an over 100-year-old group with diverse interests, including alcoholic beverages like Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL), construction and engineering.

He was a multifaceted personality, who produced films, wrote poetry and also dabbled in politics. He was close to several chief ministers – Devraj Urs, Ramakrishna Hegde and J H Patel, though he was never directly involved in politics till late in his life.

In 2004, he formed a political party Urs Samyukta Paksha, named after D. Devraj Urs, who he considered his political mentor. However, it failed to take off.

He was known to be a patron of arts and produced four Kannada films, three of them (Santha Shishunala Sharifa, Nagamandala and Mysore Mallige) award winners, all directed by noted film maker T S Nagabharana. His last film as a producer ‘Allama’, also directed by Nagabharana, is yet to be released.