This is really depressing and a sad start to the beginning of the New Year.  It is confirmed that Uday Kiran has committed suicide tonight around 12:15 AM in his flat at Srinagar colony. Uday Kiran died while he was being immediately rushed to the hospital (Apollo). The doctors have confirmed that it was too late to save him and pronounced him dead. The concrete reason behind his death is still unknown and his friends have revealed that he may have committed suicide due to family disturbances.

Tollywood celebrities Srikanth, Tanish, Tarun, Ayyapa P Sharma, Bhopal, Purna Naidu and Siva Krishna paid their visits at the Apollo Hospital. Uday Kiran's dead body will be shifted to Gandhi Hospital for postmortem and will then be shifted to Film Chamber at 11:30 AM.

Uday Kiran who shot to fame with the movie Chitram has acted in a total of 19 movies, out of which 16 are in Telugu and 3 in Tamil. He also received the Film Fare Best Actor award for Nuvvu Nenu movie in 2001. He is currently shooting for a Tamil movie under Gautham Menen's direction and also shooting for an advertisement in Mumbai.