Satya Sai Baba Blessing Nandana , Chitra's daughter |
K. S. Chithra is an Indian playback singer who has made her mark in the Indian film music industry. she has lent her voice in more than 10 Indian languages and couple of international languages .She has recorded more than 15,000 film songs[and is a recipient of six National Film Awards, five Filmfare Awards and more than thirty different state film awards. She is married to Vijayashankar, an engineer and businessman. Chithra and Vijayashankar were blessed with their daughter Nandana, was born in 2002 after nearly fifteen years of marriage.
Our beloved Chitra is stuck in utter grief and sadness as her only child nanadana is drowned to death while she was in Dubai to attend the concert, goin in to details;
Popular singer K S Chitra’s daughter Nandana who is nine-year old died after falling in a swimming pool in Dubai.Chitra along with her husband Vijaya Shankar and daughter Nandana has left to Dubai for participating in a musical extravaganza to celebrate the compositions of music director A.R.Rahman at Sharjah stadium today.
It was learnt that this incident occurred when KS Chitra and her troupe were in preparations to go out for rehearsals in the morning. They were staying at a villa in Emirates Hills, and saw that the front door was left open and Nandana was not found inside the house. By the time they went outside the villa and saw Nandana was lying in the swimming pool. She was rushed to a hospital in Jebel Ali, but she was already dead. It was told that the award-winning singer had chosen to stay at her sister's home instead of staying with the rest of the troupe at a hotel arranged by concert organisers. The concert features performances by celebrated Indian musician A R Rahman’s musical troupe and three of his sisters.
Deepest condolences to Chitra’s family and all our prayers for Nandana’s soul to rest in peace.