Keerthy Suresh and Dulquer Salmaan's Mahanati teaser got a rave response on social media. The actress who plays the lead role in this Savitri biopic was trolled majorly and was told that she can never pull off the late legendary actress' role onscreen. But Keerthy is positive that once people watch the film, even the ones who trolled her will love her performance in it. The actress said at a recent event, "After the film releases, even those who trolled me will appreciate my performance." Well, we are positive that people are going to love this film. It is one star-studded film that has Dulquer, Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Naga Chaitanya also in important roles.

The film will be released in Tamil as Nadigaiyar Thilagam and as Mahanati in Telugu. According to sources and reports in Deccan Chronicle, Keerthy watched all of Savitri's films to learn more about her body language. She also spoke to a couple of family members of the actress to get to know her better. According to reports in the leading daily, Keerthy has also lost and gained a couple of kilos to be able to portray the different phases of the late actress' career. (ALSO READ: Mahanati Teaser: Keerthy Suresh, Samantha and Dulquer Salmaan Bring Alive 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' in Telugu Cinema)

The teaser has gotten a brilliant response from fans and even other actors. Rana Daggubati also recently was praising the actors and the director of the film, Nag Ashwin for the film. He also said that he is looking forward to the film now. The film is set to release on 9th May 2018 and we are damn excited about it. Dulquer plays the role of Gemini Ganesan and Naga Chaitanya will actually play his own grandfather, Nageswara Rao. What are your thoughts on this? Tell us in the comments below and stay tuned with us for more.

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