Veteran actress-director Vijaya Nirmala dies at 73 in Hyderabad

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June 27, 2019

Chennai, Jun 27: Popular director and actress G Vijaya Nirmala, aged 73, was suffering from age-related illness. She was admitted to the Continental Hospital in Gachibowli where she is said to have suffered cardiac arrest. She breathed her last on Thursday.

She is survived by husband Krishna and son Vijaya Naresh. Mahesh Babu and Manjula Ghattamaneni are her step-children.

Her mortal remains will be brought to her residence in Nanakramguda at around 11 AM. The final rites will be performed tomorrow, according to sources.

The entire film fraternity is shocked by the sudden demise of Vijaya Nirmala. Many celebrities took to social media to express their grief over the death of Nirmala.

Vijaya Nirmala was a trailblazer in Tollywood. Born on February 20, 1946, in Tamil Nadu, she entered Kollywood at the age of seven by acting in a Tamil film called Matsyarekha. She then went on to act in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films and has around 200 movies to her credit.

At first, Nirmala began her career as an actor. However, she went on to take up various other roles such as director and producer. She had directed 44 Telugu films and entered the Guinness Book of World Records for being a female director to do the most number of films.

In 2008, she was conferred with Raghupathi Venkaiah Award for her contribution to the Telugu film industry. Some of her notable works include Panduranga Mahatyam, Poola Rangadu, Aatimiyulu, Tata Manavadu, Buddhimantudu, Marina Manishi among others.

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Kangana Ranaut attacks ‘Tejasvi Surya’, accuses him of hooliganism mistaking him for Tejashwi Yadav

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New Delhi, May 5: Actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut intended to target an opposition leader but mistakenly ended up attacking her BJP colleague instead.

A similarity in names - Tejashwi and Tejasvi - was behind Ms Ranaut's fumble. "There's a party of spoilt princes... whether it's Rahul Gandhi who wants to grow potatoes on the Moon, or Tejasvi Surya who does hooliganism and eats fish," she had said.

RJD leader and former Bihar deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav was supposed to be the original target of her diatribe as one of his videos where he was seen eating fish became a major flashpoint between the BJP and the opposition recently.

Tejasvi Surya, incorrectly referred to by Ms Ranaut during an election rally yesterday, is BJP's Lok Sabha candidate from Bengaluru South constituency in Karnataka.

Meanwhile, Mr Yadav has responded to a clip of Kangana Ranaut's statement. "Ye mohtarma kaun hai?" (Who is this lady?), he posted on X.

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While addressing a public rally in the Sundernagar area of Mandi Parliamentary Constituency yesterday, Ms Ranaut took a jibe at Mr Singh and Mr Gandhi over dynasty politics and said that both of them have a magic stick for development and talk only about non-practical things.

The Congress hit back saying the 37-year-old actor should first check the facts about her party leaders and speak about dynastic politics. National Media Coordinator for the Congress, Amrit Kaur, also questioned her qualifications on which she got a BJP ticket from Mandi.

The Mandi Lok Sabha constituency will go to polls on June 1, in the seventh phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

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