Keerthy Suresh opens up on rejecting Mahanati at first after four hours of narration; ‘I was very scared…’

Keerthy Suresh’s incredible performance in Nag Ashwin’s Mahanati turned out to be a unique breakthrough in her career. The diva brought to life the evergreen actress Savitri on screen, displaying unmatched skill in theatre. And recently, the actress made a shocking revelation, revealing how she had turned down the project in the first place even after listening to the four-hour long story.

Recently, while speaking to Galata India, Keerthy Suresh confessed that when Nag Ashwin narrated the script to him for more than four hours, he refused to do Mahanati. The actress revealed that she had doubts whether she would be able to do justice to the role, given that it is a biopic of Savitri, one of the greatest actresses of her time.

“But I turned it down just because I was scared,” she said. Some random girl coming out of nowhere and suddenly doing a biopic on a legend… what if they say I ruined it? I couldn’t think of anything else positive. I was very scared.”

The Raghu Thatha actress highlighted that since the film balanced a lot of elements depicting the personal life of the legendary actress, she was afraid that fans might not like her playing the character and would feel that it was wrong. Will be explained.

However, he mentioned coming back to the project when filmmaker Nag Ashwin himself showed confidence in him and was confident that he had something in him that could help in landing such a role.

In her words, “I said, ‘We have to show a lot of her personal side. What if her fans don’t like it? Or if it’s taken the wrong way?’ But he was very confident. The fact that Nagi had more confidence in me is what really attracted me to do the film.

Finally, the diva revealed how the biopic came into her career at a time when she was lacking confidence due to the failure of her Tamil debut.

Kirti said that people considered her unlucky and criticized her openly, not to forget the false rumors of link-ups with many of her co-stars that had surfaced simultaneously at that time.