17th April 2004

Soundarya - the Sahaja Nati who ruled the Telugu film industry over a decade like a queen - is no more. She met untimely death when the four-seater-flight (Agni Aviation) crashed at Jakkur, near Bangalore on the morning of 17th April 2004. All the bodies of Soundarya and other people were burnt to ashes at the location of accident. She was traveling to Karim Nagar, AP to campaign for Bharatiya Janata Party. The flight crashed immediately 10 minutes after taking off. 3 more persons including Soundarya's brother Amarnath expired in this gruesome accident. She was supposed to tour the Parliament constituency of Karim Nagar for 2 days.

Entire Telugu film industry and the telugu movie lovers are in a state of shock after coming to know about this incident. She completed 100 films in Telugu so far. The current projects in which she is playing female lead in Telugu are Nartanasaala (as Droupati in Bala Krishna directorial debut) and Shiva Shankar (with Mohan Babu as hero).

We, along with the visitors of idlebrain.com, deeply mourn the untimely death of our great actress. May her soul rest in peace.