Director Nag Ashwin who had made the interesting film Yevade Subramanyam last year will next helm a Tamil-Telugu bilingual biopic on the life and times of legendary Telugu actress Savitri, titled Mahanati.

Speaking to an agency, the director confirmed the news and said, “The film has been titled Mahanati, and it’ll be a magnum opus period film set in the golden era. With massive set pieces, the film will be unlike anything we’ve explored in Indian cinema. I’ve just finished the script and should finalise the cast soon.”

The director added that the life story of the actress was so intriguing that he felt it deserved to be told. “There was so much drama in her life. She lived her life fully and I will be as honest as possible in my attempt to recreate it,” he said, adding, “The story and the character of Savitri is so script like, it has got it’s emotional thread so strong that I’m very confident that audiences will relate to it. I feel stories need to have a certain value to be made into cinema and this story has value on so many levels – historic and emotional.”
Well, this is one story we cannot wait to unfold.