His career spanned for almost 25 years in Tamil drama as a lead actor during
India´s pre-independence days and he was a popular social hero in various patriotic dramas. His film career spanned between 1936 and 1958. Radha was a benefactor of M.G. Ramachandran (MGR), and in his autobiography,
Naan Yaen Piranthaen, MGR had written effusively about how Radha had helped him, while he was a struggling movie actor in late 1930s. == As a singer ==