Bengaluru, Jan 24: Yesteryear actor Krishna Kumari (84), who has acted in over 200 Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films and dominated the south Indian film industry for more than two decades, died at her Bengaluru residence on Wednesday.
Her Kannada films included Jaladurga, Asha Sundari, Bhakta Kanakadasa, Dashavatara, Shrishaila Mahatme, Swarna Gauri, Bhakta Kabira, Chandrakumara, and Sati Savithri and shared the screen with legendary actors of Kannada cinema, including Rajkumar.
Born in 1933, Krishna Kumari made her debut through Navvithe Navaratnalu, a Telugu movie, and shared screen with all the top actors of the time including, N.T. Rama Rao, Akkineni Nageshwara Rao Shivaji Ganesan, Kantha Rao and Jaggayya. She gave up stardom at the peak of her career to settle down in a farm on the outskirts of Bengaluru.
She set thousands of hearts aflutter for two decades from the 50s to 70s and essayed characters of goddess, queen, Sati Savithri, or a woman ahead of her time in social dramas.
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