Amitabh's mother Teji Bachchan passes away

Amitabh's mother Teji Bachchan passes away

By indiabroadcast
Friday Dec 21 4:25 PM
New Delhi: Actor Amitabh Bachchan's 93-year-old mother Teji Bachchan passed away on Friday after prolonged illness.

She was in the Lilavati Hospital for almost the whole of this year and was shifted to the ICU last month after her condition became worse. Details of the cause of her demise were not immediately available.

On November 7, Teji Bachchan was shifted to the intensive care unit of Lilavati Hospital. Her condition was reported to be critical and a spokesperson for the hospital said her health had suddenly worsened.

A Sikh from Karachi, she is the wife of the late Hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan. She is survived by her two sons Amitabh and Ajitabh.

The second wife of Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Teji was an amateur actor as well as a singer. Harivansh Rai, himself a renowned Hindi poet, died in 2003 at the age of 96.

Born as Teji Suri to Punjabi parents, she married Bachchan in 1941 after the death of his first wife. She was also close to the Nehru-Gandhi family while the Bachchan family was living in Delhi in the late 1950s.

Teji's illness had resulted in the Bachchan family curtailing celebrations at their Juhu residence for the past few years on occasions like Holi and Diwali.

Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai had visited her in the hospital prior to their wedding earlier this year to seek her blessings. All major family events were usually conducted
after seeking her blessings. Abhishek's high-profile wedding to actor and former beauty queen Aishwarya Rai in February this year had been kept low mainly due to Teji Bachchan's ill-health.

With Agency inputs
 
 

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