another "heroine" role was offered to her from a bollywood film producer. knowing that the producer had dropped a heroine from his movie on personal grounds, and that the same was given to her, suryakantham rejected the offer, saying "i can't live on the unhappiness of other artists." she subsequently appeared in the telugu film "kodarikam", which brought her a new level of success. the directors b. nagi reddy and chakrapani would not do a movie without suryakantham. they produced the movie "gundamma katha", starring n. t. rama rao, akkineni nageswara rao and s.v. ranga rao, with suryakantham playing the lead role of gundamma. the film was commercially successful.