A chance meeting with Kamal Haasan, led them both to do Sommokadidhi Sokokadidhi (1978), a runaway hit. He also made Niraparayum Nilavilakkum, a film in Malayalam, an experience which he found liberating. Starting off with Neethi Nijayathi (1972) in Telugu, Singeetham went on to direct Dikkatra Parvathi (1973), America Ammayi (1976), Panthulamma (1977), re-defining the state of Telugu cinema. Right now, he's engaged in making a movie on the early years of Jesus Christ, with Pawan Kalyan as part of the cast and the project has garnered the interest of the international media. There's no stopping the drive and ambition of the veteran film-maker Singeetham Srinivasa Rao (inset) who has made film after successful film in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi in as many genres as he could, from mythology to laugh-aloud comedies.
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