 ""Vipranarayana"", ""Missamma"" and a host of other musical hits – more than a hundred in Telugu most of which won the National Film Awards for best film(s), and Tamil and a few in Kannada – followed.When Vijaya's "Missamma" (originally a Telugu film) was remade as "Miss Mary" in Bollywood, the film's soundtrack retained one of Rao's compositions.Rao's introduction to cinema came unexpectedly, in the form of Mr. Huchins' (of the Huchins Recording Company) visit to Rao's home district of Vizianagaram in 1934.