Mahanati Savitri death facts by her daughter Vijaya || Saavitri || Taazz...

On May 10, 1980, Savitri stopped in Bangalore at Hotel Chalukya while going back for a Kannada movie shoot in Mysore. There Savitri had some family-related visitors. They left with her son (Satish Kumar) for some shopping and by the time they came back, Savitri, who had quit drinking (and also lost weight) was with a bottle of gin. There was dinner and the guests left, but Savitri apparently did not eat and was stressing out about a recent court notice (on taxes). The guess was that, she took her insulin shots, had a few drinks and fell asleep without eating. She went into a coma from which she did not wake up. Her blood pressure had dropped. She had been in a coma before and had come back. But this time it was different.

She was taken to Lady Curzon hospital where thousands of people showed up to pray for her (even though she acted in very few Kannada movies). Eventually she was brought back to her home in Chennai. She was cared for by her relatives. Natural to the state of coma, her body became emaciated and she became skin and bones over months.

But Savitri had already died the night she went into coma. Even in those days there must've been privacy if a person, especially a celebrity, was in state of coma or acute ill-health. Somehow, she didn’t have privacy. Lots of individuals were allowed to visit and even take pictures.  The final clinical death was on December 26, 1981. She was 44.