Career
Besides, she acted in, directed, or produced plays such as A View from the Bridge and The House of Bernarda Alberta Snehalata was married to Pattabhi Rama Reddy, the noted film director She was arrested for being a part of Baroda dynamite case, however, while George Fernandes and many others were made accused in the case, Snehalata"s name was not in final charge-sheet.
However, she was tortured and was confined to live inhuman conditions in prison at Bangalore, where her health deteriorated and was released on parole on 15 January 1977.
But she died five days later due to chronic asthma and lung infection and on 20 January 1977, being one of first martyrs of Emergency. Madhu Dandavate, who was also in same jail where Snehalata was imprisoned writes in his memoir, he could hear the screams of Snehalata from her cell in silence of night.