Actor-Singer Suchitra Krishnamoorthi's elder sister Sujata Kumar, who featured as Sridevi's sister in Gauri Shinde's English Vinglish (2012) passed away on Sunday night. She was 53. The last rites were performed at the Vile Parle crematorium yesterday.

Krishnamoorthi tells mid-day, "She was more than a sister. She was the one who raised me; the person I considered my first mother." The actor-singer describes her as a compassionate warrior who lived life on her own terms. "She personified the word bindaas. My family and I are in shock. It happened unexpectedly. She was admitted with jaundice, and then we found out that the cancer she had 10 years ago had relapsed. It had metastasised into Grade 4 cancer."