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Revisiting a legend

Tamil and Telugu actor Keerthy Suresh slips into flashback mode in her latest film, Mahanati, a biopic about the South Indian star Savitri. Mahanati recreates the aesthetics of that era with elaborate sets and great attention to detail, she says, like the eye-twinkling effect that was a sort of Savitri signature.

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Still from Keerthy Suresh's Mahanati
Still from Keerthy Suresh's Mahanati

Tamil and Telugu actor Keerthy Suresh slips into flashback mode in her latest film, Mahanati, a biopic about the South Indian star Savitri-who acted in nearly 300 films in the 1950s and '60s.