Superstar Mahesh Babu along with wife Namrata and father Krishna attended the statue inauguration of late veteran actress Vijaya Nirmala. The statue was unveiled in Hyderabad on the occasion of her birth anniversary. The event was also graced by Krishnam Raju among other celebrities.
Speaking about the veteran actress, Vijaya Nirmala breathed her last in June, 2019. She is the first woman to have directed nearly 44 movies that made her enter Guinness book of world records and has acted over 200 films. Speaking about her debut, the late actress made her debut at the age of seven with a Tamil movie Matsyarekha . Mahesh Babu had earlier penned an emotional post which reads, “For me, she was a woman of substance… A woman I travelled with for 14 years of my married life… She was a warm, loving and caring soul… She was strong, brave, fun-loving and full of life! Her zest for life was uncompromised… She was a visionary and truly ahead of her time in her thoughts and deeds… This was Vijaya Nirmala garu for me.”