Mumbai, Aug 26
Veteran Bollywood actor A.K. Hangal passed away here Sunday after a prolonged illness aggravated by a recent hip fracture, his family said. Hangal was 96.
"He died around 9 a.m. He died following lung and kidney failure after he suffered a hip fracture," his physician Koulsoum Hossein told IANS.
"It is a great shock and loss to his family, admirers and the entire film fraternity," said a family member at the actor's Santacruz residence.
According to a hospital official, Hangal was on life-support systems for the past few days but did not respond to treatment.