Chindodi Leela
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Chindodi Leela was an India
n stage and film actress, politician, and writer from Karnataka
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. A Padmashri recipient, she won the Central Sangeetha Nataka academy award in addition to the Sri Krishnadevaraya Award from the Andhra Pradesh government. The Karnataka government felicitated Leela with several awards, including the Gubbi Veeranna Award, the highest honour for any theatre personality in the state.
Leela headed the Karnataka Nataka Academy and was also a member of the Legislative Council in Karnataka for a term of six years.
She appeared in such films as Kiththoor Chennamma, Gaali Gopura, Krishnadevaraya and Sharapanjara. She produced a film, Hamsalekha, about Panchakshari Gavaayi, a blind musician, which won numerous central government and state awards.
and had undergone coronary artery bypass surgery
on 18 January 2010, and died three days later, on 21 January 2010, aged 72. Leela was cremated on 23 January 2010 near Davanagere.
India
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n stage and film actress, politician, and writer from Karnataka
Karnataka
Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...
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Career
She ran the Karnataka Nataka Academy for more than three decades, acted in more than 20 films, and was a member of the Karnataka Legislative CouncilKarnataka legislature
The Karnataka Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Karnataka state in southern India. Karnataka is one of the six states in India, where the state legislature is bicameral, comprising two houses...
. A Padmashri recipient, she won the Central Sangeetha Nataka academy award in addition to the Sri Krishnadevaraya Award from the Andhra Pradesh government. The Karnataka government felicitated Leela with several awards, including the Gubbi Veeranna Award, the highest honour for any theatre personality in the state.
Leela headed the Karnataka Nataka Academy and was also a member of the Legislative Council in Karnataka for a term of six years.
She appeared in such films as Kiththoor Chennamma, Gaali Gopura, Krishnadevaraya and Sharapanjara. She produced a film, Hamsalekha, about Panchakshari Gavaayi, a blind musician, which won numerous central government and state awards.
Family
Leela was born in a family of artists and began her acting career at the age of 5. Over 10,000 performances were held of a play she wrote, Halli Hudugi, with which she revived her family's drama company, making it one of the biggest professional drama troupes in Karnataka.Death
Leela suffered a heart attackMyocardial infarction
Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...
and had undergone coronary artery bypass surgery
Coronary artery bypass surgery
Coronary artery bypass surgery, also coronary artery bypass graft surgery, and colloquially heart bypass or bypass surgery is a surgical procedure performed to relieve angina and reduce the risk of death from coronary artery disease...
on 18 January 2010, and died three days later, on 21 January 2010, aged 72. Leela was cremated on 23 January 2010 near Davanagere.