K Uma Maheshwari, the fourth daughter of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister NT Rama Rao, died on Monday at her Jubilee Hills residence, allegedly by suicide.

Uma Maheshwari was reportedly suffering from health issues and had been receiving treatment for a few months.

Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, also known as N. T. Rama Rao and NTR, was an Indian actor, filmmaker, and politician who served three terms as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

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He appeared in over 300 films, mostly in Telugu, and was known as Viswa Vikhyatha Nata Sarwa Bhouma.

Rao married Basava Rama Tarakam, his maternal uncle’s daughter in 1943. The couple had a total of eight sons and four daughters.

Nandamuri Ramakrishna Sr., his eldest son, died in 1962, shortly after Rao finished filming Irugu Porugu. In his honour, Ramakrishna Studios in Nacharam was established. Nandamuri Saikrishna, his third son and a theatre owner, died in 2004 as a result of diabetic complications.

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His fourth son, Nandamuri Harikrishna, a child actor-turned-politician elected to the Rajya Sabha on behalf of the TDP, passed away in a car accident on August 29, 2018.

The Telugu film industry also features actors Nandamuri Kalyan Ram and N. T. Rama Rao Jr., who are Harikrishna’s sons. Since the middle of the 1980s, Nandamuri Balakrishna, his sixth son, has been a prominent actor in Tollywood.

He also began his career as an artist when he was young. As a TDP candidate, Balakrishna ran in the 2014 local assembly elections. The Hindupur Assembly Constituency was won by him. Film producer Nandamuri Ramakrishna Jr. is his seventh child.

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Daggubati Purandeswari, the second daughter of Rao, served as a Union Minister and represented the Indian National Congress in the Lok Sabha. She changed to the Bharatiya Janata Party as her party of choice.

In 1985, Basava Tarakam passed away from cancer. Rao founded the Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital in Hyderabad in 1986 in honour of her. He wed Lakshmi Parvathi, a Telugu author, in 1993. His two-volume biography of Rao, which was released in 2004, was written by her.