Big Mistake in Mahanati

Keerthy Suresh starrer Mahanati is a well made biopic from Nag Ashwin. The film is currently running with decent collections at the box office. The director tried to showcase the real life incidents of legendary actress Savitri. 

Yet, Nag Ashwin had to take cinematic liberties in the film which led a few blunders are dug out by the critics. One such blunder is that when Savitri's health and financial statuses are shown in poor light during 'Gorintaku' release times, legendary character actor SV Ranga Rao takes pity on her and arranges her meals to get her hunger quenched.

As a matter of fact, SVR died in the year 1974 and Gorintaku was released in 1979. But then, how can the meet between SVR and Savitri happen? When this blunder was brought to the notice of the director, he admitted that it was a deliberate attempt by them. The director admitted that he had taken cinematic liberty to build sympathy on Savitri's character.