Rao was among the handful who lent Savitri a helping hand during the fag end of her career by ensuring small but meaty roles in his films like Gorintaku (1979) and Devadasu Malli Puttaadu (1978). As film-maker, Savitri didn’t opt for original stories, which at that time directors like K Balachander started to experiment with, but rather went for faithful scene-by-scene remakes, which didn’t find favour with the audiences.Įven during her last days, Savitri started a bi-lingual in Tamil and Telugu, heavily borrowing on interest, but thankfully dropped the idea due to the good sense that renowned director Dasari Narayana Rao instilled in her. She wanted to take an active part in the industry when the offers started drying up, unlike many of her contemporaries like Saroja Devi, Vyjayanthimala, etc, who chose marriage once they felt their markets slipping. Unlike Jamuna, Savitri took the risky plunge of getting into direction and production.
By her own admission Savitri told Jamuna that entering into wedlock with a much-married and elder person at a tender age of 16 was a grave mistake.
