Veteran Telugu actor Krishna, Mahesh Babu’s father, passes away at 80

By PTI

HYDERABAD: Veteran Telugu actor Krishna passed away on Tuesday at a city-based private super-speciality hospital where he was undergoing treatment following a cardiac arrest. He was 80.

Krishna, father of superstar Mahesh Babu, was admitted to the hospital in the early hours of Monday and was put on a ventilator.

He was being treated by a multi-disciplinary team of doctors following the cardiac arrest.

The actor passed away at 4 am on Tuesday, hospital sources said.

Ghattamaneni Sivarama Krishna, popularly is known as just Krishna, had begun his career in the early 1960s and has acted in about 350 films.

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