Sundar Rao Nadkarni was an Indian film actor, editor, cinematographer, producer and director.
Sundar Rao Nadkarni was born in Mangalore, Karnataka.
Thereon, he moved to Coimbatore and finally Madras, where he settled down permanently.
In 1942, Nadkarni directed the Tamil film En Manaivi which was a hit.
He directed all the top Tamil actors during his active years, notably M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar and T. R. Rajakumari in Haridas (1944), Narsimha Bharathi in Krishna Vijayam (1950), and MGR and Savitri in Mahadevi (1957).