The Tollywood film industry is in shock and mourning the loss of actor Nandamuri Taraka Ratna, who passed away at the age of 39 at Bengaluru's Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences on Saturday night. He had been admitted to the hospital on January 27 after collapsing during a padyatra of TDP general secretary Nara Lokesh in Kuppam town of Andhra Pradesh. Many Tollywood and political celebrities have expressed their condolences and paid tribute to the late actor. YSRCP MLA and former minister Kodali Nani visited Taraka Ratna's residence to pay his respects and spoke about his interaction with the actor. According to Nani, Taraka Ratna was a social person who mingled with everyone and had expressed his desire to contest in the election from TDP, the political party founded by his grandfather late NTR. Despite being the grandson of a famous political figure, Taraka Ratna never used his family name to gain popularity, but worked hard to make his name
