Actor Riteish Deshmukh's father, Union minister and former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, passed away this afternoon after a multiple organ failure. He breathed his last at a hospital in Chennai after suffering from a liver ailment. He was moved to Chennai last week from the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai.
Sources claim that the 67-year-old politician had shown signs of improvement and been on and off the ventilator before being prepared for a transplant.
Vilasrao Deshmukh had been diagnosed with liver cancer. An earlier attempt had been made to harvest liver from a brain dead donor from a government hospital but it proved futile as the man died before doctors could operate on him on Tuesday night.
We at Movie Talkies, offer our heartfelt condolences. May his departed soul, rest in peace.
