[3] The film begins with Ravana visiting Kailasa, the abode of Shiva, at an inopportune time, causing Nandi to intervene.

Dasaratha, the king of Ayodhya, is distressed by his childlessness, so he conducts the Putrakameshti with his 3 wives:Kausalya, Sumitra & Kaikeyi.

As a result, Vishnu with Shesha, Shanku & Chakra incarnates as his 4 sons: Rama, Lakshmana, Bharata, & Shatrughna.

Once, Brahma created a beautiful woman, Ahalya, and announced a contest to determine who would win her marriage, with the prize going to the first being to circle the three worlds.

One night, Indra, in the form of a hen, wakes Gautama before sunrise, and assuming the guise of her husband, seduces Ahalya.

Upon discovering this, an enraged Gautama curses Indra to be disfigured with a thousand eyes and turns Ahalya into stone.

N. T. Rama Rao's portrayal of the demon king Ravana (the antagonist of the Hindu epic Ramayana) in Bhookailas (1958) earned him critical acclaim.

[4] However, after the release of its Kannada-language version Bhookailasa in the same year which featured a different cast and crew, Rama Rao's portrayal was often compared with that of Rajkumar who played Ravana.

This, along with Ravana's reputation as a renowned Shiva devotee, made Rama Rao consider reprising the role in another film which focused on a more layered representation of the character.

Later, Rama Rao's friend Dhanekula Buchi Venkata Krishna Chowdhary came up with a story which they liked, and Samudrala wrote the dialogues, songs and poems.

[4] Sita Rama Kalyanam also marked Kanta Rao's first on-screen appearance as Narada, a mythological character which he would reprise later in multiple unrelated Telugu films.

[1][5] Rama Rao approached M. A. Rahman, the cinematographer of the former's acting debut Mana Desam (1949), to collaborate for this film as the director of photography.

[4] For filming the Ravananugraha sequence, Nagaich opted for using mask shots capturing varying expressions of Rama Rao instead of working with nine dummy heads.

He worked on the song "Kanarara Kailasa Nivasa" and a poem "Jayatwada Bravibhrama" before walking out of the film citing creative differences with Rama Rao.

[6] Sita Rama Kalyanam was released theatrically on 6 January 1961,[5] in 28 centres, with an attempt to cash in on the Makara Sankranti holiday weekend.