Veteran Actress Vijaya Nirmala passes Away

Veteran director and actor G Vijaya Nirmala breathed her last on Thursday. She was admitted to Continental Hospitals in Gachibowli, Hyderabad.

Though she started her career as an actor, she later directed and produced many films. She directed 44 films in Telugu and entered the Guinness Book of Records as the female director who made the most number of films.

Vijaya Nirmala was born in Tamil Nadu and her father had worked in film production. She made her debut as a child artiste at the age of seven with a Tamil movie Machcha Rekhai in 1950.

Vijaya met her second husband Krishna during the shoot of the film of Saakshi. Actor Naresh is her son from her first marriage and she had a daughter Manjula and son Mahesh Babu from her second marriage.