Sudha Chandran in Mayuri

About the film:
This is the only Telugu film where a real life story is enacted by the same individual on the silver screen (albeit with fiction). (Ushakiron Movies made Ashwani later, with athlete Ashwani Nachappa in the lead role, but it was more of a fiction than a real life story. Ushakiron Movies also produced films like Mouna Poratam and Judgment based on real incidents, but with different people acting in respective real life roles.)

In one of her interviews, Sudha Chandran quoted that the accident happened when she was sixteen (in May, 1981), while she was returning from a temple and that her leg had to be amputated due to negligence on the part of the doctors that attended to her then. Dr. Sethi and Dr. Kasiwala were really the ones who gave her confidence that she can dance soon. Having faith in their words, she underwent the surgery and got her prosthetic foot (popular known as "Jaipur foot", named after the capital city of Rajasthan where the treatment is available), and started her dance practice. She never even thought, for the sake of it, that doctors were only trying to be of moral support and that it could seem impossible in reality. When she announced her dance programme after the accident, an audience of over a thousand people was totally unexpected for the event, which she thought would be more like a family affair. That was when Dr. Sethi congratulated her for her will power and admitted that he didn't really completely believe in his own word that she could dance!

Subhakar and Sudhachandran in Mayuri