At the time of her death she was on her way to an election rally for
the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaign in Karimnagar, Andhra
Pradesh. Her brother Amarnath, an employee of the BJP, was also killed
in the plane crash.
She discontinued her medical education to enter the film industry in
1992.
She is daughter of noted Kannada producer and director Satyanarayana.
She married her distant cousin Raghu Sridhar, a software engineer, in
April 2003.
Soundarya opened three schools for orphaned children in her village Ganjigunte, in Mulbagal (Kolar).