# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/c-s-rao
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:21:31.010Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/c-s-rao"
name: "C. S. Rao"
slug: "c-s-rao"
description: "Chittajallu Srinivasa Rao was an Indian actor, writer and director. He was the son of film director Chittajallu Pullayya. He directed around 65 films in the Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Oriya languages. He garnered two National Film Awards for directing the films Lava Kusa (1963) and Desamante Manushuloyi (1970). Directors including Muktha V. Srinivasan and K. S. Sethu Madhavan worked as his assistants."
tagline: "Indian actor"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1924"
deathDate: "2004-12-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.760765333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006768/"
    handle:    "nm0006768"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A4"
    title: "سی ایس راؤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83._%D8%A5%D8%B3._%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "ك. إس. راو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83._%D8%A7%D8%B3._%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "ك. اس. راو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Rao"
    title: "C. S. Rao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF._%E0%AE%8E%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D._%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "சி. எஸ். ராவ்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%9C%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%81"
    title: "చిత్తజల్లు శ్రీనివాసరావు"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5006843"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1208888"
    title: "Chittajallu Srinivasa Rao"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump