In his unpublished autobiography, Jamshed Boman Homi Wadia wrote:“I made my last silent thriller 'The Amazon' or 'Dilruba Daku' [w]ith Padma in the stellar role.

43).”[2]Kisan Kanya starring Padma Devi is the first indigenously made color movie which was released in 1937.

[citation needed] She has also sung in several films; Sati Mahananda (1933), Maharani (1934), Bahen Ka Prem (1935), Sangdil Samaj (1936), Kisan Kanya (1937) and Zamana (1938) are notable among them.

[citation needed] Parallel to her Bollywood career, Padma has also worked in Bengali and Kannada language cinema.

A partial list:[3][4] R. Nagendra Rao Subbaiah Naidu Padma Devi died on 1 February 1983.