He is one of the few directors to have worked with the Tollywood "fab four": Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna Akkineni, Venkatesh and Nandamuri Bala Krishna.
The film is a remake of the Tamil film Thaikulame Thaikulame starring Pandiarajan, it was also remade in Kannada as Naanu Nanna Hendethira with Ravichandran and in Telugu as Intlo Illalu Vantitlo Priyuraluwith Venkatesh.
Since then, she has acted in over 100 movies, some opposite leading actors such as Kamal Hassan, Rajnikanth, Vishnuvardhan, Venkatesh, Nagarjuna, Ravichandran, Mammootty, Mohanlal, Sathyaraj, and Prabhu.
Raviraja Pinisetty is a noted Telugu film director, who has directed many hit films with big stars in Telugu like Chiranjeevi, Nandamuri Balakrishna, Mohan Babu, Rajasekhar and Daggubati Venkatesh.
The other versions of this film were in Telugu as Suryavamsam (1998) with Venkatesh and Meena as lead actors and in Hindi as Sooryavansham (1999) with Amitabh Bachchan and Soundarya in leading roles.