
She married the filmmaker and studio-owner K.

As her career as a singer was not successful, she returned to Madras in 1946. She then moved to Bombay to sing in the chorus for Naushad in 1942. These two movies were released together as a two-in-one movie. Her first two movie roles aged 14 were in Barrister Parvatheesam, produced by Raghupathy Prakash, and Bondam Pelli, produced by H.

She acted along with stage actors Thungala Chalapathi and Dasari Kotiratnam and became popular for her roles in plays like Sakkubai and Rangoon Rowdy. She left home to act on stage in Vijayawada when she was 11 years old. Varalakshmi was born in 1926 in Ongole, Andhra Pradesh, India to a Telugu Kapu family.
