Vani Jayaram: Tamil Nadu Police have registered a case of suspicious death over the passing away of noted playback singer Vani Jayaram. Vani was found dead in her house on Saturday.
The singer whose husband Jayaram passed away in 2018, was living alone in her residence at Haddows road in Chennai.
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No response to maid’s call
Her maidservant Malarkodi, who used to work at her residence, arrived at 11 a.m. and even after repeated ringing of the bell, there was no response from inside.
She immediately alerted Vani Jayaram’s sister Uma and both of them entered the house with duplicate keys and found Vani lying dead on the floor of her bedroom. She had bruise marks on her forehead. Police were informed and her body was taken to Kilpauk hospital in Chennai for post mortem.
A forensic team of Tamil Nadu police was conducting an inspection at the residence of Vani Jayaram.
When contacted, Shekhar Deshmukh, DCP, Triplicane told mediapersons that the police were conducting an investigation and further details will be known only after the post mortem report comes.
Guddi made her famous
She got her break in playback singing with ‘Guddi’ the debut film of Jaya Bachchan in 1971. The songs ‘Bole re papihara’ and ‘Humko Mann Ki Shakti Dena’ in the film got her instant success.
However, she did not work much in Hindi cinema and instead worked with leading Malayalam composers including M.K. Arjunan, G. Devarajan, M.S. Viswanathan, R.K. Shekhar, V. Dakshinamoorthy, M.S. Baburaj, Shyam, A.T. Ummer, M.B. Sreenivasan, K. Raghavan, Jerry Amaldev, Kannur Rajan, Johnson and Raveendran.
Vani sang in a number of languages including Odia.
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