Director and actor · Telugu cinema
Vedantam Raghavaiah
Vedantam Raghavaiah movies: 19 Telugu films on file (17 as director, 2 as actor), 1939–1969. Earliest on file: Raithu Bidda (1939). Latest release: Saptaswaralu (1969).
- Films on file
- 19 (17 as director, 2 as actor)
- Years on file
- 1939–1969
- Born
- 1919 (Wikidata)
- Died
- 1971
- Selected films on file
- Devadasu, Anarkali, Inti Guttu
- Record
- Q14478904 on Wikidata
Career on file
Vedantam Raghavaiah has 19 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 1939 to 1969: 17 films as director and two films as actor. The earliest of them is Raithu Bidda (1939), and the most recent release is Saptaswaralu (1969). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Devadasu (1953), Anarkali (1955) and Inti Guttu (1958). Other recent releases on file are Rahasyam (1967), Sati Sumathi (1967) and Aada Brathuku (1965).
In the films Vedantam Raghavaiah directed, Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Anjali Devi appear most often (eight films each), ahead of N. T. Rama Rao (7) and Gummadi Venkateswara Rao (6). Music on six of them is by P. Adinarayana Rao, with Thotakura Venkata Raju (3) and Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao (2) next. Anjali Pictures produced four of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 10 music directors and 32 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 14 of them; they average 168 minutes, and the longest is Suvarna Sundari at 208 minutes. By decade the list splits into 1930s (1), 1940s (1), 1950s (11) and 1960s (6).
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.