25 October 2015
Hyderabad
Veteran character artist and comedian MaDa dies on the night of 24 October 2015 in Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills. He was born in 1935 and worked as an electrical engineer before entering into theater. He character Mada (Maga + Aada) in Dasari Narayana Rao directed Chillarakottu Chittemma made him extremely famous and he is known is MaDa since that film is released. Choodu Pinnamma song which is picturized on him has become very famous. He has acted in over 300 films so far. Funeral will be held on Wednesday as his youngest daughter has to arrive from USA. May his soul rest in peace!