Jayasudha, who already worked with K. Raghavendra Rao for his film "Raja", was chosen for an important role. Jayaprada was a new sensation in Telugu film industry and a budding artist at that time with her "Sirisirimuvva" being a super hit. Thus, she was taken for the heroine role. Sridhar was approached to do an important role opposite Jayasudha. Jayasudha was not aware that she was doing the second role until the last minute, but since she had already agreed to do the film, she just went ahead keeping faith in Raghavendra Rao. She got a lot of letters after the film's release from her fans requesting her to not do a second lead role again in any of her future films, though she had a good role in the movie (People were not aware that she signed this film before she did "Jyothi", as "Jyothi" hit the screens earlier than "Adavi Ramudu" and brought Jayasudha a good name.).