I think no one can easily forget her smiling and childish face. Yes! she was none other than Tollywood Angel Soundarya who had made a good record of acting in more than 90 films in Indian cinema industry. Soundarya was born on 18th July 1971 in Bangalore as only daughter for Mr Sathyanarayana, well reputed cine director, and Mrs Manjula. Soundarya’s real name was Soumya. Though she was born in Karnataka she got her total popularity and success in Telugu films. She proved her talent by playing performance oriented charactors as well as portraying glamour roles. In a short period she reached the pinnacle of film career and secured stardom by playing opposite top heros of Indian film industry.
She had successful film career of 12 years and acted in her first Kannada film ‘Gandharva’ while she was studying in high school. Then she was studying her first year of MBBS. But the success of film ‘Ammoru’ changed her life and she discontinued her medical studies and paid full concentration in acting movies. In one Hindi film ‘Sooryavansham’ she acted opposite Bollywood super star Amitabh Bachcan. Though she acted mostly in Telugu films, also gave awarded Kannada film ‘Dweepa’ which was host of national awards including ‘Swarna Kamal’ ( Golden Lotus ) given for the Best film of the year and the Best Actress award for Soundarya. It also won Karnataka state awards for Best film, Best Actress and Best Cinematography. The most successful her very last Kannada film was ‘Aaptamitra’.
Hello Brother, Amman and Anthapuram are some of the popular Telugu films in which she showed her wonderful acting talent. In 2003 Soundarya won the ‘Nandi’ award the best one in Tollywood industry. Nagaarjune, Srikanth, Chiranjeevi and Venkatesh are some of the Tollywood top heros played opposite her. She was very careful in selecting the stories of movies as she never liked body exposure. In Tamil films she played opposite Super Star Rajinikanth, Kamalkhasan, Vijayakanth, Parthiban and Karthic. Ponnumani, Padayappa, Arunachalam, Thavasi, Chockkathangam and Ivan are some of the successful Tamil films. Soundarya also acted in some Malayalam movies opposite Kerala super star Mammooty.
Soundarya belonged to Kannadian Iyengar community and she was pure vegetarian by food habit. Soundarya had attractive color complexion, very beautiful looking and good acting talent. But all of them gone in a few minutes when she met a flight accident on April 17 th, 2004. She never liked to come to the film industry but her ill fate brought her and killed badly.
During the Parlimentary Election of India which held on 2004 Soundarya had joined in BJP ( Bharatiya Janatha Party ) and started electoral compaign at Bangalore just on before day the day she killed. On 17 th April 2004 she proposed to compaign for the Bharatiya Janatha Party at Karimnagar of Andhrapradesh as already scheduled by BJP organisers.
But she never knew that that was her last day and journey in her life. Unfortunately everything including her beauty, complexion and dreams was destroyed after the private four seat cessna 180 air craft crashed in which Soundarya and three others including pilot travelled to Karimnagar in Andhrapradesh. The aircraft took off at about 11:05 AM from Jakkur airfield on the outskirts of Bangalore and turned westerly before crashing on the campus of Gandhi Krishi Vigyan Kendra of University of Agricultural sciences. It had been reached only 100 feet height before it crashed.
Soundarya, her brother Mr Amarnath, Mr Ramesh Kadam ( Secretary of Hindu Jagrana Vedika ) and pilot Joy Philips were burnt beyond recognition. Experts are diagnosing that accident might have happened when the pilot immediately diverted the plane to avoid dashing with a bird as the aerial atmosphere of the Jakkur is often found with many number of birds. To overcome the shaking of the aircraft Soundarya might have incidently held the operational knobs infront of her who had been wrongly seated on the co-pilot seat on that day. But God only knows what really happened on that day.
We every one will die one day but dying such young age ( 32 years ) leaving husband, friends and family members is not digestible for every one and particularly for her fans. Soundarya might be physically not with us but mentally she is always in every heart of her lacs of fans. It’s a saying that God takes good people to Him so early that’s what happened to Soundarya. Soundarya means ‘Beautiful’, she is not only beautiful by looking and also by her other good activities such as generosity and discipline. So God likes her presence with Him.
It is so pity that she did not even pass one year after the marriage which held on 27 th April, 2003 and another pity thing is that she had been conceived when she was killed. What to say ? No words to express feelings about this great tragedy ! It’s all God’s decision and all we can say is rest in peace ‘Soundarya’.
ill nvr forget u
ill nvr frgt u soundarya