Popular actor Krishna who had suffered a cardiac arrest on Monday died today in Hyderabad. Krishna, 80, was brought to the emergency department of a hospital at 1.15 AM on Monday in cardiac arrest, doctors said.
Krishna who acted in over 300 films in various languages, was the father of actor Mahesh Babu and father-in-law of TDP leader Jay Galla. He had joined the Congress and became an MP in the 1980s but quit politics after former PM Rajiv Gandhi’s death.
His wife and Mahesh Babu’s mother Indira Devi died in September this year.