Other Films
Vishwamohini is his Telugu film directed and acted in 1940. It is a love triangle satirizing the film industry.
His next film in Tamil, Lavangi (1946) was based on the life of poet Pandit Jagannath, who was believed to have served the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
The heroine was Kumari Rukmini, daughter of actress and dancer Nungambakkam Janaki. During the making of the film, Rao fell in love with her and she became his second wife. Their daughter is actress Lakshmi and granddaughter is Aishwarya.
Noteworthy amongst later films of Rao was a mythological in Tamil language called Savithri starring M. S. Subbulakshmi and Shanta Apte.
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