Prashant Tamang, who rose to fame as the winner of ‘Indian Idol 3’ and was praised for his turn as a cold-blooded assassin in ‘Paatal Lok-2’, died here on Sunday following a cardiac arrest. He was 43. Tamang’s close friend, singer Mahesh Sewa, said that the singer-actor died at his residence in Janak Puri.

“He (Tamang) passed away this morning around 9am due to cardiac arrest at his residence in Delhi. His body is still at the hospital. The family is yet to decide whether to perform the funeral in Delhi or Darjeeling,” he said.