 Impressed with these stills, Narayana decided to use the same make-up for the real shooting of the film.He showed these make-up stills to Mangaiah, the make-up man, who followed the same.Nageswara Rao, who portrayed the titular character, later recalled that Vedantam, being a Kuchipudi dance exponent and an experienced stage actor, used to enact the scenes before the actors, thereby making their job easy.