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Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao

Indian film editor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao is an Indian film editor who works primarily in Telugu cinema.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.