Popular actor and director Surya Kiran passes away at the age of 48 at his Chennai residence on March 11. He sucumbed to jaundice after under going treatment at a Chennai hospital. He has started his career as a child actor with the malayalam film Snehikkan Oru Pennu in 1978. He has also acted in several malayalam films as a child actor like Kolilakkam, Padayottam, Thalam Thettiya Tharattu, Koodum Thedi, Kadathanaadan Ambadi, Mouna geethangal etc in addition to many telugu and tamil films. He was also a former participant in Big Boss telugu.