This morning, the Bollywood and TV fraternity woke up to the devastating news of veteran actress Rita Bhaduri's death. She passed away at 1:30am on Tuesday. The actress who was known for her mother roles in Bollywood and TV was hospitalised for the past few days and passed away due to kidney failure. She was a part of Star Bharat's popular show 'Nimki Mukhiya'. And the television industry is mourning the death of the veteran actor. Anuup Sonii, Vivek Dahiya and Shishir Sharma took to their Twitter handles and expressed their deep grief on the loss of a 'great actor'


Actor Shishir Sharma took to his social media profile and confirmed the news:


Vivek Dahiya mourned the death and wrote: Woke up to this news! A brilliant actress and a quintessential mother on screen. Saddened and at loss of words! #RIP #RitaBadhuri


Anup Soni to expressed grief over the actress'death:


Film critic Salil Saand too posted condolence message on Twitter:


Rita was at the Sujay Hospital in Vile Parle. She was fighting a weak kidney and was on dialysis. In her last show, "Nimki Mukhiya", she was seen as a Imarti Devi, the grandmother of the house.