Can someone give life history of Mahanati Savitri garu......
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Ashwin has attempted a cradle-to grave account of the woman who was one of the biggest stars of South Indian cinema. Born on December 6, 1934, in Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh, Savitri acted in stage productions as a child. She made her debut in the Telugu movie Pelli Chesi Choodu in 1952, and notched up several hits in her mother tongue as well as in Tamil. Her list of critical and commercial hits is long, and includes Devadas (1953), Missamma (1955), Mayabazar (1957), Kalathur Kannama (1959), Pasamalar (1961), Karpagam (1963) and Thiruvilayadal (1967).
Savitri was also a producer, director, singer and race car driver. “There was so much material and so much drama in all of it,” Ashwin said. “It is really hard to turn the life story of a person into a film. If you see biopics made in America, they are more often than not focussed on a part of a person’s life. But I decided to make a film on Savitri’s entire life because this is possibly one of the only occasions anyone is going to make a film on her.”Savitri acted in dance dramas as a child, including some work with a theatre company run by Kongara Jaggaiah. She made an unsuccessful speculative trip to find film work in Madras at the age of 12, when she was deemed to be too young to play heroine roles, but in 1950 was cast as the female lead in Samsaram. That role did not become actuality because she became too excited, necessitating numerous retakes and eventually her replacement in the part. She was given a minor speaking role in the film and in the next year had two more minor roles, in Roopavati and Patala Bhairavi, before getting her big break as second heroine in Pelli Chesi Choodu.