Aarthi Agarwal

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Indian-American actress who primarily worked in Telugu cinema, also known as Tollywood. She is the older sister of Aditi Agarwal, also an actress. Agarwal was born to a Gujarati family. At age 16, she made her debut with Paagalpan. Agarwal made her Telugu film debut in Nuvvu Naaku Nachav with actor Venkatesh. She was one of the few non-Telugu speaking actresses to work with noted Indian film stars Chiranjeevi, Nandamuri Balakrishna, Akkineni Nagarjuna, Mahesh Babu, Ravi Teja, and NTR Junior. In 2005, The Hindu reported that Agarwal had attempted suicide after she was hospitalized with internal head injuries at Apollo Hospital, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad and put on ventilator support. In 2007, Agarwal married Tasval Kumar, a U.S.-based Indian software engineer; the couple divorced in 2009. On 6 June 2015, Agarwal was pronounced dead on arrival at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She had undergone a liposuction surgery six weeks prior, and had severe breathing problems before her death. Her manager stated the cause of her death was cardiac arrest. Link to Wikipedia biography