Nadigaiyar Thilagam \ “Mahanati” is the upcoming film scripted and directed by
Nag Ashwin
. The teaser of the film released yesterday and impressed the audiences.
Keerthy Suresh
plays the titular role Nadigaiyar Thilagam, “
Savitri
.” The bilingual biopic has
Dulquer Salmaan
as
Gemini Ganesan
.
Shalini Pandey
plays “
Jamuna
” and
Naga Chaitanya
plays
Akkineni Nageswara Rao
.
Prakash Raj
plays a popular producer. The film is shot from the perspective of Madhuravani, a journalist cum documentary filmmaker and the role is done by none other than Samantha Akkineni.
Vijay Deverakonda
plays
Vijay Antony
, Samantha’s pair. The teaser has Keerthy… Keerthy and Keerthy! Others just appear in a fraction of seconds. Some black and white sequences remind us of “Missiamma,” the film that had Gemini, Savitri, Jamuna and “
S V Ranga Rao
.” It was a bilingual too. Nadigayar Thilagam background music score is by “
Mickey J Meyer
” and it is awesome. The BGM beats take us to the black and white days! The film releases on 9th May 2018.