Savitri was one of the leading Indian actress of the 1950s and 1960s. She ranked as the biggest leading lady of the South Indian Film Industry for more than a decade and acted in 138 Telugu films; 100 Tamil films; 6 Kannada films; 5 Hindi films and 3 Malayalam films that make the total of 252 films spending 30 years in the cinema industry. She died at the age of 46.