Actor Ashish Roy passes away due to kidney failure

Popular TV actor Ashiesh Roy passed away on Tuesday morning around 4 am at his Mumbai residence. He was 55. Ashiesh had worked in several shows, including Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi, Sasural Simar Ka, Mere Angne Mein, Baa Bahu Aur Baby, Bymokesh Bakshi, and others.

Ashiesh was a popular dubbing artiste as well and has given voice to Hindi version of The Dark Knight (Health Ledger’s Joker character), Superman Returns, Man of Steel and many others. The veteran actor was suffering from kidney ailment and was admitted to hospital early this year.

He had run out of money and had requested for financial help in May 2020. He had tweeted, “I’m in the ICU, very ill, dialysis. Need urgent money for dialysis.”

Amit Behl, senior joint secretary of CINTAA, confirmed Ashiesh’s demise and said, “Ashiesh has passed away in his house. Director Arvind Babbal called me to inform about it.” Actress Tina Ghai also confirmed the news and said, “We are grief-stricken. We have activated the zonal heads at CINTAA. There is a problem in acquiring the death certificate too as he passed away at home.” 

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