Was watching SPB's Telugu singing competition program 'Paadutha Teeyaga'. The guest for the show was Saluri Vasu. He is the son of the legendary music director, Saluri Rajeshwar Rao. He made a couple of interesting comments regarding Raja's music.

1. One song sung by a contestant was from a Vamshi film and the music was by a MD called Chakri. Vasu said that Vamshi would always talk about Raja to Chakri in order to inspire him. He said that Vamshi was very close to Raja and once Raja gifted him a music system !!

2. He said that he and his brothers and his parents all stayed together as a joint family. He and his brother Koti, are music directors. Whenever they used to come back home after a recording, his father would ask their mother get him the tape recorder and he will start playing some Raja song. Then he will tell his sons, "Listen, how well Raja has composed this song." He said that it was his father's way of inspiring them to create good music. Was nice to know that someone like Rajeshwar Rao held Raja in such high regard.