 She also showed innovation and lack of vanity in original Telugu films like "Premabhishekam" (1981), where she played a supporting role as a deglamourised prostitute, while Sridevi played the female lead.She has acted in 325 films, and in one year, she had 24 film releases.She accomplished all this, despite her illiteracy in Telugu, by having people read lines to her and she would remember and deliver her lines.