Bangalore: Kannada star Puneeth Rajkumar has passed away at the age of 46 after suffering cardiac arrest on Friday.
Reportedly, Puneeth was taken to the Intensive Care Unit of Bengaluru’s Vikram hospital today after he suddenly collapsed while working out in his gym.
The 45-year-old actor was well known as Appu, has started his career as a child artist with his father in the early Eighties.
On the work front, Puneeth had recently wrapped up the shoot of ‘James’ with director Chethan Kumar and was to begin work on the much-awaited collaboration with Pawan Kumar on ‘Dvitva’. His most recent release is ‘Yuvarathnaa’.