Actor Amitabh Bachchan’s 93-year-old mother Teji Bachchan passed away on Friday at Lilavati hospital where she had been for almost an year now owing to her illness.

The wife of the late Hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan with two sons, Amitabh and Ajitabh she was an active social persona. With her demise, the last link of the Bachchcan-Nehru family seems to have broken.

Teji’s illness had resulted in the Bachchan family curtailing celebrations at their Juhu residence for the past few years on occasions like Holi and Diwali.

Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai had visited her in the hospital prior to their wedding earlier this year to seek her blessings. All major family events were usually conducted after seeking her blessings.

Rahul Gandhi will pay the homage from his family at Teji’s funeral. Sonia Gandhi shared a special bond with the lady and had also once called her her third mother (after her own mother and mother-in-law Indira Gandhi).