Veteran Bollywood actress Vidya Sinha passes away at 71

Mumbai, August 15

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Veteran Bollywood actress Vidya Sinha, famed for her role in Basu Chatterjee film ‘Rajnigandha’ (1974), passed away after a brief lung-cum-heart ailment here on Thursday, family sources said.

She was 71 and breathed her last at a private hospital in Juhu where she was rushed on Sunday last after severe breathing problems.

Since her condition was critical she had been put on a ventilator but failed to recover and expired around 1 pm.

Currently, she was playing a prominent role in the television serial ‘Kulfi Kumar Bajewala’ on a private channel.

Sinha had been missing from the serial on account of her illness but bounced back a few weeks ago till her demise on Thursday. IANS