Swamy semi-retired from acting in 2000 after playing a guest role in Mani Ratnam's Alaipayuthey and concentrated on his business interests. Swamy was director of V. D. Swamy and Company and engaged in international trade and construction. He was the president of InterPro Global and the chairman and managing director of Prolease India, engaged in transaction processing.[5] He then founded Talent Maximus a company engaged in payroll processing and temporary staffing in India.
He initially wanted to come back to films after 4-5 years, but was physically injured. The treatment took another 4-5 years.[4] After his successful treatment, Mani Ratnam called him once more to play a role in one of his films, Kadal (2013)[6] for which Swamy lost 15 Kilograms.[4]
In 2013, he provided the voice-over for Santhosh Sivan's film Ceylon.[8]
