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Bangalore: Sandalwood director Rajendra Babu dead

  •   Sun, Nov 03 2013 01:59:57 PM

Bangalore: Sandalwood director Rajendra Babu dead

Bangalore, Nov 3 (IANS): Kannada director D. Rajendra Babu died here Sunday at a private hospital after suffering cardiac arrest. He was 62.

"He suffered a severe heart attack this morning and passed away at M.S. Ramaiah Hospital. He was admitted late Saturday evening after he complained of pain in the abdomen," a source from the hospital told IANS.

Rajendra Babu, who had over 50 films to his credit, started his career as an actor and then moved on to direction.

Some of his directorial films include "Jiddu", "Yuga Purasha" and "Annayya". He has also directed a Hindi film titled "Pyaar Karke Dekho" starring Govinda.

He was working on a Kannada sports-drama "Aryan" featuring Shivarajkumar and Ramya aka Divya Spandana.

After hearing the news of his demise, Divya tweeted: "Really saddened. D Rajendra Babu sir was such a nice person. (I) spoke to him a while ago (and) he was supportive of my new responsibility."

He is survived by his wife Sumithra and daughters Umashankari and Nakshatra, who has already made cinematic debut in Tamil drama "Doo".
  

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  • deekshith, manglore

    Tue, Nov 05 2013

    very lose in kannada industry

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Katapadi/Bangalore

    Sun, Nov 03 2013

    Real unbearable loss to the Sandalwood on loosing greate Director Rajendra Babu today.Nobody thought that we are going to miss this noble film man when he is budding in his field.May god bless his soul with devine peace and grant required strength to the his dependants to bear this great loss.Thanq.

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  • Vasant Raj, Mangalore / Abudhabi

    Sun, Nov 03 2013

    Very sad new...loss of great personality of Sandlewood...

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