Vaishnavi, very famous to Tamil audiences as a sizzling actress of popular TV serial 'Anni' on Jaya TV and 'Manaivi' on Sun TV, who had also hosted a film comedy show on Sun TV, is no more.
Yesterday evening the 20-year old actress found dead in her residence in the upmarket Annanagar area in Chennai.
As per police source, the actress's father Thanigai Nathan, who informed police about the incident, has first seen Vaishnavi hanging in her room from the ceiling of the fan using a shawl.
Police now interrogating the relatives and friends of the TV artiste, however preliminary probe revealed the young starlet was suffering from mental stress, due to which she might have taken the extreme step.
Vaishnavi also acted in the Rajnikanth-Manisha Koirala starrer 'Baba'; in the film she played one of the sisters of Manisha.
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