[6] Mayuri is a real story of classical dancer Sudha Chandran, who lost her leg in an accident on her way from Trichy to Madras in June 1981.

[8] She returned to dancing after a gap of two years and performed in India, Saudi Arabia, United States, UK, Canada, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Yemen and Oman.

[11] He took only the basic plot of the dancer succeeding against the odds and added characters such as P. L. Narayana and Nirmalamma who is inspired from Patro's grandmother.

Though they were excited by the idea but were unsure "if we could find and convince her or that her performance would be impressive" hence they were in search of girls from dance schools for the lead role and found one for it.

After tracing Chandran's family, Singeetham who gathered information about the incident from her decided Sudha for the role due to her expressive face.

[11] The film was launched on 10 November 1984 where the first shot was taken on Chandran, Baby Varalakshmi, Chakri Toleti at the office of Ushakiron Movies.