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Bollywood and TV actor, Rakesh Diwana, 48, died here on Sunday four days after he underwent robotic weight loss surgery at Mohak Hi-tech Hospital of Sri Aurobindo Group of Hospitals. Doctors feel that high blood pressure might have caused his death.

Diwana had worked in a good number of movies and TV serials including Ramayana, Rowdy Rathore, Double Dhamaal and Mahadev.

The actor's sudden death has spread shock wave in reel world. Diwana's body was taken to his home town Mathura in UP for performing last rites.

He developed complication before he was to be discharged from the hospital on Saturday. His condition turned critical late night on Saturday and he was admitted to ICU after he suffered brain hemorrhage. He fell unconscious, hospital sources said.

Diwana came to the hospital on April 20 where he was suggested to undergo sleeve gastrectomy procedure to reduce his belly.

Diwana, who weighed around 200 kg, had body mass index (BMI) of 68. A person with BMI above 30 is considered obese.

The actor's daughter Shivani Diwana is upset with her father's untimely death. She feels that something went amiss in his father treatment. Bariatric surgery is not a major surgery. The surgery is just for mere weight loss, she told reporters.

She had lost her mother five years ago, sources said.