K. Raghavendra Rao
K. Raghavendra Rao( born Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao on 23 May 1942) is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and choreographer, known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema and a few Hindi and Kannada films.
He has garnered eight state Nandi Awards, the IIFA Award, the SIIMA Award, five Filmfare Awards South and two Cine MAA Awards.
In a film career spanning more than five decades, Rao has directed more than a hundred feature films, of which around ninety were box office hits, across multiple genres such as romantic comedy, fantasy, melodrama, action thriller, biographical and romance films.
Rao received the state Nandi Award for Best Director for his works such as" Bobbili Brahmanna"( 1984), and" Pelli Sandadi"( 1996).
He garnered the Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu for the drama film" Prema Lekhalu"( 1977), the super natural fantasy film," Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari"( 1990), and the romance film" Allari Priyudu"( 1993).
Rao is known for his works in hagiographical films such as" Annamayya"( 1997), which won two National Film Awards, and was also showcased at the 1998 International Film Festival of India in the mainstream section.
Rao also received the Nandi Award for Best Direction, the Filmfare Award for Best Direction for his work in the film.
His other hagiographic works such as" Sri Manjunatha"( 2001)," Sri Ramadasu"( 2006)," Shirdi Sai"( 2012) and" Om Namo Venkatesaya"( 2017), received several state honors.
His mainstream works such as the 1987 Social problem film" Agni Putrudu", and the 1988 action thriller" Aakhari Poratam", were screened at the 11th and 12th International Film Festival of India respectively in the mainstream section.
In 1992, he directed the melodrama" Gharana Mogudu", premiered at the 1993 International Film Festival of India in the mainstream section, which became the first Telugu film to gross over 10 crore at the box office.
Next, he directed the instant hit" Allari Priyudu", which was also premiered at the 1994 International Film Festival of India in the mainstream section.
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The Sound of Music (film)
The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn and Eleanor Parker.
The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
The film's screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical's book by Lindsay and Crouse.
Based on the memoir" The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian postulant in Salzburg, Austria, in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children.
After bringing love and music into the lives of the family, she marries the officer and together with the children find a way to survive the loss of their homeland to the Nazis.
The film was released on March 2, 1965, in the United States, initially as a limited roadshow theatrical release.
Although critical response to the film was mixed, the film was a major commercial success, becoming the number one box office movie after four weeks, and the highest- grossing film of 1965.
By November 1966," The Sound of Music" had become the highest- grossing film of all- time — surpassing" Gone with the Wind" — and held that distinction for five years.
The film was just as popular throughout the world, breaking previous box- office records in twenty- nine countries.
Following an initial theatrical release that lasted four and a half years, and two successful re-releases, the film sold 283 million admissions worldwide and earned a total worldwide gross of$ 286,000,000.
" The Sound of Music" received five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
The film also received two Golden Globe Awards, for Best Motion Picture and Best Actress, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical.
In 1998, the American Film Institute( AFI) listed" The Sound of Music" as the fifty- fifth greatest American movie of all time, and the fourth greatest movie musical.
In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Simha Baludu
Simha Baludu (English: A Man with Lion's Power) is a 1978 Telugu swashbuckling fantasy film, produced by D. Sriranga Raju under the Tirupathi Productions banner and directed by K. Raghavendra Rao.
It stars N. T. Rama Rao, Vanisri in the lead roles and music composed by M. S. Viswanathan.
The film was released on 11 August, 1978 to negative reviews and despite the grand opening ended up as a "flop" at the box office.
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Robert Wise
Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American film director, producer, and editor.
He won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for both "West Side Story" (1961) and "The Sound of Music" (1965).
He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for "Citizen Kane" (1941) and directed and produced "The Sand Pebbles" (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture.
Among his other films are "The Body Snatcher" (1945), "Born to Kill" (1947), "The Set-Up" (1949), "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951), "Destination Gobi" (1953), "This Could Be The Night" (1957), "Run Silent, Run Deep" (1958), "I Want to Live!"
(1958), "The Haunting" (1963), "The Andromeda Strain" (1971), "The Hindenburg" (1975) and  (1979).
Wise was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1971 to 1975 and the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1984 through 1987.
Robert Wise has been viewed as a craftsman, inclined to let the (sometimes studio-assigned) story concept set the style.
Later "cineastes", such as Martin Scorsese, insist that despite Wise's legendary workaday concentration on stylistic perfection within the confines of genre and budget, his choice of subject matter and approach still functioned to identify Wise as an artist and not merely an artisan.
Wise achieved critical success as a director in a striking variety of film genres: horror, noir, western, war, science fiction, musical and drama, with many repeat successes within each genre.
Wise's meticulous preparation may have been largely motivated by studio budget constraints, but advanced the moviemaking art.
Robert Wise received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1998.

Question: Are both director of film The Sound Of Music (Film) and director of film Simha Baludu from the same country?
Answer: no