Sooryavansham actress Soundarya was two-month pregnant and wanted to quit acting before her shocking Demise!

South actress Soundarya has a massive fan following and she predominantly worked in Telugu and Kannada films. However, her demise in April 2004 left tremors of shock amongst her fans. Soundarya passed away due to an aircraft crash near Bangalore and April 17, 2020, marks the 16th death anniversary of the actress.

She was popularly known for her role in the Hindi film Sooryavansham, alongside Amitabh Bachchan.

Even today, Fans are still deeply hurt by her demise as she was two-month pregnant at the time of death. In 2019, Tamil director R V Udayakuma had revealed that Soundarya had called him up only to inform that Kannada remake of Chandramukhi is her last film as she is expecting. 

A day after her call to the director, she passed away in a plane crash. She was accompanied by her producer-brother Amarnath, who also lost his life with her.

In an old interview, R V Udayakumar had revealed "After doing the Kandna remake of Chandramukhi, she called him. She told me that it would be her last film and she was two-month-old pregnant. That day she talked to me and wife over the phone for about one hour but, the next day I came to know about her death only when I saw TV."

He also talked about the bond they shared and how Soundarya would always address him as her brother. Udayakumar recalled about the day when he visited Soundarya's house to attend the funeral and said "I went to her house and saw a beautiful house. When I entered the house, I was startled to see a big photo of mine hanging on a wall there. I could not control my tears.”

The director had spoken about Soundarya during the audio launch of his film Thundgan.

For the unversed, Soundarya was on her way to Karimnagar to campaign for the Bharatiya Janata Party and Telugu Desam Party candidate, Ramesh Kadam. Within a few minutes of take-off, the plans caught fire and crashed, thus taking the life of the actress and her brother.