Hope you all know that it was
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
, who was initially chosen to play “
Savitri
” in her bilingual biopic, “Mahanati” / Nadigayar Thilagam. The director
Nag Ashwin
felt that instead of the well-known face Samantha, it would be better if the role is played by a less known face. As Keerthy Suresh has just played a couple of films in Telugu, Nag Ashwin chose Keerthy to play the lead role. Samantha plays the role of “
Jamuna
” and the story will be narrated from her perspective.
Dulquer Salmaan
plays
Gemini Ganesan
and it is the debut film for DQ in Telugu. It is to be noted that the film will be dubbed and released in Malayalam too. Vyjayanthi Movies produce the film and the film will hit the screens on 29th March 2018.
Prakash Raj
plays Aluri Chakrapani and
Mohan Babu
plays “
S V Ranga Rao
.”
Arjun Reddy
fame pair
Vijay Deverakonda
and
Shalini Pandey
are also in the cast.