{"id":42805,"date":"2016-12-13T08:34:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T08:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=42805"},"modified":"2016-12-13T12:53:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T12:53:45","slug":"samantha-to-be-savitri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/samantha-to-be-savitri\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha to be Savitri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Savitiri the heroine of the times of ANR and NTR is still remembered. Her action in Maayabazar as male and female is till remembered and is every green. Now she is back in lime light.<\/p>\n<p>The latest buzz about Samantha is that the demure actress has been approached for a biopic on iconic late actress Savitri who reigned in the Tamil and Telugu industries in the 1950s and 60s.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42807\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Samantha-Ruth-Prabhu-To-Play-Savitri-Biopic.jpg\" alt=\"Samantha-Ruth-Prabhu-To-Play-Savitri-Biopic\" width=\"599\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Samantha-Ruth-Prabhu-To-Play-Savitri-Biopic.jpg 599w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Samantha-Ruth-Prabhu-To-Play-Savitri-Biopic-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Savitri, who has acted in all south languages besides Hindi, was considered as one of the finest actresses and termed the \u2018Lady Sivaji\u2019 for her histrionic talents.<\/p>\n<p>Tollywood filmmaker Nag Ashwin who debuted with Yevade Subramanyam that starred Nani will helm the biopic. When we contacted Sam\u2019s spokesperson, he did confirm that the developments are true.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-42808\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/29-1369804483-gundammakatha-ntr-savitri-telugu-moviesongs-lyrics.jpg\" alt=\"Samantha-Ruth-Prabhu-To-Play-Savitri-Biopic\" width=\"445\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamantha has been contacted and she is keen to listen to the story narration. She would be listening to the script later this week\u201d, he revealed. If all goes well, she would sign on the dotted line soon.<\/p>\n<p>Playing the multifaceted Savitri is not an easy proposition and would be a challenge for any actress \u2014 let\u2019s hope Sam lives upto expectations! But sam is supposed to put on weight for being like the chubby and bubbly Savitri. May be it would be better if Samantha takes up this assignment after get married to Naga Chaitanya.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-42809\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/44.jpg\" alt=\"Samantha-Ruth-Prabhu-To-Play-Savitri-Biopic\" width=\"579\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/44.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/44-768x290.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savitiri the heroine of the times of ANR and NTR is still remembered. Her action in Maayabazar as male and female is till remembered and is every green. Now she is back in lime light. The latest buzz about Samantha is that the demure actress has been approached for a biopic on iconic late actress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[20324,15617,20326,20327,20325,20329,20328],"class_list":["post-42805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cinema","category-top-stories","tag-anr-and-ntr","tag-heroine-samantha","tag-heroine-savitiri-biopic","tag-lady-sivaji","tag-maayabazar-movie","tag-samantha-married-chaitanya-samantha-play-savitiri-role","tag-tollywood-filmmaker-nag-ashwin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/savitri.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}