World's most prolific woman film producer

hyderabad: veteran cine personality n r anuradha devi has earned the distinction of being the woman producer to come out with the highest number of feature films in the world. anuradha's feat of having produced 17 movies in telugu and tamil so far facilitated her entry into the limca book of records, which certifies her feat as a world record as well, the city-based producer disclosed in a release on sunday.she noted that about 90 per cent of women producers soon dropped out of the industry, leaving the field for males to dominate. anuradha's 17 films so far include adiamaien kadalan (starring the late ntr opposite j jayalalithaa), besides the super-hit work alibaba 40 dongalu made in both tamil and telugu. daughter of venkataramaiah appa rao (popularly called raja of mirzapuram) who is the founder of chennai-based chala studios, she has also produced anubandham featuring akineni nageswar rao, sujatha and radhika, chakradhari with akineni and vanisree in lead roles and bhakta khumbara starring raj kumar and leelavathi. her debut production was kanni rinda kannavad (tamil), followed by telugu movie illrikam (starring akineni and jamuna), both released in 1959. moon reeleth (ravi chandran-jayalalithaa), chitralekha (ntr- k r vijaya-l vijayalaxmi) and killer vella durai (sobanababu and vanisree) are among the movies produced by anuradha. while anuradha's father introduced ntr to films, her mother krishnaveni was an actress.