KollywoodOne of Shoba’s strongest assets was her self-confidence and she remained unfazed even while acting along senior and more established actors. CV AravindA few days earlier she had walked up to the dais to receive her National Award for Best Actress for the offbeat film Pasi, clad in all finery. But the world came crashing down for those who loved Shoba, when on May 1, 1980, she was found to have killed herself in her house in Chennai, then Madras. A controversy soon erupted over her death after her mother, Prema, a supporting actor in Malayalam cinema, claimed that it was a homicide. Accusing fingers were pointed at Shoba's husband of over a year and a half, acclaimed cinematographer-director Balu Mahendra. The case, however, fizzled out after the suicide theory gained ground and forensic investigations ruled out murder as the cause of death. Thus ended the career of a child star...
- 5/9/2020
- by Sowmya
- The News Minute
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