Legendary actress Savitri is the all-time favorite of Telugu audience. When a biopic is made on her, obviously it grabs the limelight. Speculations apart, filmmakers of Mahanati released a poster on the occasion of Women’s Day.

Even though the poster was interesting, there was a doubt in the minds of the audience that which role Samantha is playing in Mahanati. Keerthy Suresh has already revealed in her earlier interviews that she is going to play Savitri role.

According to reports, Samantha going to shock the audience with her role. She is playing the role of yesteryear heroine Jamuna in the film. The reason behind this is said to be that Savitri and Jamuna said to have differences with each other in real life.

Mahanati Savitri’s biopic film has been launched. Marking Women’s Day today, Vyjayanthi Movies and Swapna Cinema have released two separate posters for the Telugu and Tamil versions.

Keerthy Suresh is playing Savitri, while Samantha has a key role, a role set in contemporary times and through whom the life and times of the yesteryear screen diva is narrated.

In Tamil, where the Mahanati is fondly called as Nadigaiyar Thilagam Savithri, the film has been no less much-written about. Nag Ashwin seems to be out to tell a new-age biopic.

Tharalanu nirminche sthree jathi kosam.. Tharatharalu garvinche Mahanati Savithri katha, is meant to be a tribute to one of the most popular woman celebrities in India’s history.