| | 4 | 1958 179’ b&w Kannada d H.S. Krishnaswamy, M.V. Subbaiah Naidu pc Shri Sahitya Samrajya Nataka Mandali s M.S. Bangaramma lyr G. Mahalinga Bhagavathar c K. Balu m L. Mallesh Rao lp M.V. Subbaiah Naidu, Lakshmibai, Udaya Kumar, Leelavathi, Narasimhraju, G. Mahalinga Bhagavathar, P.R. Venugopal, Master Loknath |
| | 7 | Subbaiah Naidu and R. Nagendra Rao’s theatre company staged many mythologicals which had a major influence on South Indian cinema, including Bhakta Prahlada and Bhukailasa. K. Shankar and AVM made the best-known film adaptation of Bhukailasa (1958), while S. Naidu and Nagendra Rao themselves made the screen adaptation of Bhakta Prahlada, their best-known filmed mythological. It tells the Ramayana’s Vishnu Purana legend of the demon Hiranyakashapu, his son Prahlada, a devotee of Vishnu, and Vishnu’s eventual triumph over the demon in his man-lion avatar. |