[1] Inclined towards arts from an early age, he ran away from his home and joined Sir J. J.
Datta was also interested in music and learned to play guitar, sitar, harmonium.
He assisted a couple of directors for some time and started a film titled Pillanagrovi which was stopped midway due to financial reasons.
[5] Later Prasad got introduced to K. Raghavendra Rao through Samatha Arts’ Mukherjee who was a friend of his.
Raghavendra Rao started giving Datta and Prasad small assignments.