It's disheartening to see young actors passing away with cardiac arrest in the current times. Bigg Boss 13 winner Siddharth Shukla, aged 40 died of a cardiac arrest today in Mumbai. Cooper Hospital officials confirmed the same with the media.

It's a big shock to the film fraternity as Siddharth is very young and healthy. According to the sources, Shukla suffered a massive heart attack on Thursday morning. The hospital sources say that the actor was brought dead to the hospital.

After the Bigg Boss TV show, the actor shot to fame with Ekta Kapoor’s show Broken But Beautiful 3. Siddharth rose to fame after the Bigg Boss TV show and he had a huge fan base online.

The actor began his career as a model and played the lead role in the television show Babul Ka Aangann Chootey Na. Later, he played Shiv in the serial Balika Vadhu. He also acted inJaane Pehchaane Se... Ye Ajnabbi, and Love U Zindagi.

Siddharth Shukla is survived by his mother and two sisters.