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<\/picture><\/div>\nActress Ananya Raj, known for films like 7 Hours to Go<\/em> and Ghost<\/em>, passed away at the age of 35. Her family confirmed the news on social media, stating that she died in her sleep on the morning of July 15.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to the family, Ananya had been dealing with physical and mental health issues for more than a year. They also shared a post on Instagram, asking fans and well-wishers to pray for the peace of her soul.<\/p>\n Family shared an emotional note on Instagram<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ananya Raj\u2019s family announced her death through an emotional post on her official Instagram account. They said they were sharing the news with a heavy heart and revealed that Ananya passed away peacefully in her sleep in the early hours of August 15. The family also said that she had been dealing with physical and mental health struggles for more than a year and faced the difficult period with courage.<\/p>\n Made bollywood debut in 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n Ananya Raj, who grew up in Mumbai, worked in both Hindi and regional cinema. She made her Bollywood debut in 2016 with the thriller 7 Hours to Go<\/em>. She later appeared in The Final Exit<\/em> in 2017 and Vikram Bhatt\u2019s 2019 horror film Ghost<\/em>. Apart from films, Ananya also featured in several popular music videos, which helped her gain recognition among viewers.<\/p>\n Also worked in Telugu and other regional films<\/strong><\/p>\n Apart from Hindi films, Ananya also tried her luck in regional cinema. She worked in the Telugu suspense thriller film ‘Thaggede Le’, released in 2022.<\/p>\n In this film, directed by Srinivas Raju, she appeared alongside Naveen Chandra, Divya Pillai, and P. Ravishankar. Additionally, she played the lead role in the trilingual film ‘Madrasigang’.<\/p>\n Family appeals for privacy<\/strong><\/p>\n The statement released by the family further said that Ananya was a strong-willed girl and lived like a queen. The family wrote that the void created by her absence will always be felt.<\/p>\n In this difficult time, the family has requested fans and the media to respect their privacy and pray for the peace of the actress’s soul.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Actress Ananya Raj, known for films like 7 Hours to Go and Ghost, passed away at the age of 35. Her family confirmed the news on social media, stating that she died in her sleep on the morning of July 15. According to the family, Ananya had been dealing with physical and mental health issues…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[28868,28867,28865,28866,28872,28870,28869,28871],"class_list":["post-33174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7","tag-7-hours-to-go-actress","tag-actress-ananya-raj","tag-ananya-raj","tag-ananya-raj-death","tag-ananya-raj-passes-away","tag-celebrity-death","tag-ghost-film-actress","tag-mental-health-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/521\/2026\/08\/16\/684835082_18065768219679420_5447633714960613680_n_1786887031468.png\")
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