[2] Rao returned to India, where she made documentaries and short films in order to improvise her craft.

[1] Being a writer at heart from her early teens, she had written the story of two young women falling in love during her college days but never took it further due to its unconventional story-line.

Since the central theme of the story is a taboo topic in India, she had difficulties finding producers for her project and turned to Wishberry, a crowd funding platform to raise an amount of Rs 4 lakh.

In 2018, Astu Studios released a travel short film Love Leh'tter starring Rao, written and directed by Surya Vasishta.

[11] The movie was written and directed by Kelvadi, and it is Rao's third project as producer under Ameyukti Studios.

[12] In 2025, Rao's featurette film Asmin is planned for release on her YouTube Channel in the last week of January.