Young Tiger Jr NTR was approached to play the role of his grandfather Sri Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao in the biopic on legendary actress Savitri titled Mahanati. However, NTR refused because he feels he’s not eligible to play the role. NTR himself revealed the same while speaking at Mahanati audio launch function took place the last night in Hyderabad.
NTR disclosed that, producer Swapna Dutt who’s a good friend of him had approached him numerous times with the proposal of starring as Sr NTR in her production venture. Every time NTR said no because he doesn’t feel he is not the worthy person to reprise him.
It is also heard that, Natural Star Nani too was approached to play the same role as NTR in Mahanati. Nonetheless, Nani too didn’t show much interest. Though Nani didn’t unveil for which role he was approached for, he only informed that he was supposed to star in the movie but couldn’t do owing to some reasons.
Interim, Mahanati that features Keerthy Suresh, Dulquer Salmaan, Vijay Deverakonda, Samantha, Naga Chaitanya etc. is slated for release on May 9th.