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Disco Shanti REVEALS How She Hid Behind Alcohol To Cope With Srihari's Death; Says, 'I Drank Too Much To...'
Disco Shanti is a popular actress-dancer in the southern film industries from the 1980s-1990s. She was remarkable as a dancer in special numbers with every top grade actor of that time. She was next to Silk Smitha and ended her career after marrying Srihari in 1996.
Disco Shanti was a happy soul earlier but Srihari's death due to illhealth changed everything for her overnight. She turned into someone unrecognizable following the tragedy but is now recuperating.
The 57-year-old recently opened in an interview with an YouTube channel on how she took the death of Srihari. When asked about how she is standing for their two sons like a rock, in the place of their father, Shanti said, "They have grown older. Not me being their support, but they have brought me back to normalcy. They both brought me out of depression.
She said, "To be frank, I became addicted to alcohol after passing away of Bava (Srihari). I did this to forget my existence so that I could forget reality.
I have been sleeping in the hall downstairs. I mustered up courage to go to our bedroom after three months, but I ran back to the hall. My brothers and their families stayed with me for over three months. But they left due to their kids education. After that, my sons have been my support," added Shanti.
Srihari and Disco Shanti's is a love marriage, and their love story is well-known in the Tollywood industry. Srihari, who played villainous roles in the beginning of his career fell in love with Shanti, after watching her dance. He then learnt how she had come forward to play a father's role to her family and decided to get married to her. The duo got hitched in 1996 and remained one of the happily-married couples of Tollywood until Srihari's death.
Srihari suffered from a liver disease, and while shooting for Shahid Kapoor's R....Rajkumar under the direction of Prabhu Deva, he was admitted into a hospital where he breathed his last in 2013.
Disco Shanti is the daughter of CL Anandan, a Tamil actor. She appeared in more than 900 films including Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Odia, Malayalam, and Kannada. Her younger sister Lalitha Kumari was married to Prakash Raj before getting divorced in 2009.
