Overview
- Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar confirmed Rai’s death and offered condolences on X.
- Rai died at Bengaluru’s Kidwai Hospital, with reports stating his thyroid cancer had spread to his stomach.
- Video from the ceremony shows Yash consoling Rai’s son Roshan and placing a garland on the late actor’s casket.
- Rai had publicly described the high cost of his treatment, citing Rs 3.55 lakh per injection and about Rs 10.5 lakh per cycle in a video shared by Gopi Gowdru.
- Across a decades-long career in Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu cinema, he was widely recognized for roles in Om and the KGF franchise.