"Heartbreaking": Paridhi Sharma Mourns Jodha Akbar Co-Star Manisha Yadav
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Manisha Yadav was best known for her performance as Salima Begum in Zee TV's soap opera Jodha Akbar
Actress Manisha Yadav, who was best known for her performance as Salima Begum in Zee TV's soap opera Jodha Akbar, has died. The exact cause and time of the actress' death have not been revealed yet but it has been reported that she died of a brain haemorrhage. Mourning her Jodha Akbar co-star on social media, actress Paridhi Sharma shared a still of Manisha Yadav from the show on her Instagram story and wrote: "This news is so heartbreaking. RIP Manisha." The late actress featured as Salima Begum, one of Akbar's wives, in Jodha Akbar that was headlined by Rajat Tokas and Paridhi Sharma.
The show was produced by Ekta Kapoor.
See Paridhi Sharma's Instagram story here:
Paridhi Sharma also offered condolences to Manisha Yadav's family in an interview with the Times Of India. She shared that she "wasn't in constant touch" with Manisha Yadav and that she got to know about her death though a WhatsApp group of "all the actresses who were begums in the show."
