Director, actor, producer and writer · Telugu cinema
Kovelamudi Surya Prakash Rao
Kovelamudi Surya Prakash Rao movies: 15 Telugu films on file (11 as director, 2 as actor, 2 as producer, 1 as writer), 1941–2022. Earliest on file: Apavadu (1941). Latest release: Pratibimbalu (5 November 2022).
- Films on file
- 15 (11 as director, 2 as actor, 2 as producer, 1 as writer)
- Years on file
- 1941–2022
- Born
- 1914 (Wikidata)
- Died
- 1996
- Selected films on file
- Muddula Mogudu, Secretary, Kode Nagu
- Record
- Q15696137 on Wikidata
Career on file
Kovelamudi Surya Prakash Rao has 15 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 1941 to 2022: 11 films as director, two films as actor, two films as producer and one film as writer. The earliest of them is Apavadu (1941), and the most recent release is Pratibimbalu (2022). Measured by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them, the best-known titles here are Muddula Mogudu (1983), Secretary (1976) and Kode Nagu (1974). Other recent releases on file are Rowdy Gaari Pellam (1991), Bharatamlo Arjunudu (1987) and Babu (1975).
In the films Kovelamudi Surya Prakash Rao directed, Akkineni Nageswara Rao appears most often (six films), ahead of Sobhan Babu (3) and N. T. Rama Rao (2). Music on four of them is by Pendyala Nageswara Rao, with K. Chakravarthy (3) and K. V. Mahadevan (3) next. Suresh Productions produced three of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 5 different directors, 7 music directors and 36 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 10 of them; they average 159 minutes, and the longest is Kanna Talli at 193 minutes. By decade the list splits into 1940s (2), 1950s (1), 1960s (3), 1970s (5), 1980s (2), 1990s (1) and 2020s (1).
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.