Ashwath, Narasimha Raju, Balakrishna, Iyer, B. He was of the notion that, in the 1950s onwards Honnappa Bhagavatar, Rajkumar, Udayakumar, Kalyankumar, B.R. After that he had more hits like Devara Duddu, Badhu Bangaravaythu, Beluvaladha Madilalli, Mugiyadha Kathe in the 1970s and Kaliyuga, Pitamaha and Satyanarayana Pooja Phale in the 1980s. In ‘Devara Gudi’ he costarred with Vishnuvardhana in an important role. He has also acted in Devara Makkalu, Prathidwani, Kranthiveera and Bidugade with Dr. He was not only good in acting but also in singing. In that competitive period, Rajesh stood strong for his terrific performance on the silver screen in Kannada cinema. Though he started a ittle late compared to Udaykumar, Rajkumar and Kalyan Kumar, they were all contemporaries. He had recently acted in Nanna Gopala, a children's film directed by Lakshman. After that, Rajesh was flooded with offers. The then Finance Minister Ramakrishna Hegde gave the film 100 per cent tax exemption. The song "Hogadhiri Sodarare" from the film made him popular. Narayan, Late Shri Suryanarayan Rao & Late J N Shetty who rechristened Vidyasagar as Rajesh and the film was ‘Namma Ooru'. When Narayan Seth from Mumbai contacted him and took him to CV Shivashanker, he returned to acting. Rajesh did not act for two years after that. Rajesh then rejected the offer to star in ‘Jeevana Tharanga’ because of internal politicking. Rajkumar was ‘Shiva’ and he was ‘Maha Vishnu’. While acting in his second film he got another offer from B R Panthulu for ‘Gange Gowri’. Rajakumar was Sri Rama and he was Bharatha, Udayakumar was Anjaneya. While acting in this film he got an offer for ‘Sri Ramanjeneya Yuddha’. He applied for 15 days leave from his job and went to Madras. It was veteran director Hunsur Krishnamurthy who introduced Vidyasagar in Veera Sankalpa. His theatre performances eventually progressed to film roles. Playwright Basheer asked him to act in plays and he was in Visha Sarpa, Nandadeepa, Chandrodaya and Kittur Rani Chennamma. ‘Badavana Baalu’ was his next and it continued like that. One fine day he got up from the sleet and started writing a play on unemployment. Later he formed the Shakti Nataka Mandali, staging many popular plays. Even Rajesh had faced a similar situation. Chi Udayashanker was sent out from office for that. In the ledger books he would keep famous novels and read them. He was doing what Chi Udayashanker famous cinema writer was doing in the office. Rajesh initially worked as a typist in government offices. From pamphlets, his parents came to know that he had joined the theatre troupe. In the name of tuition he was going for practice and the first role he got was ‘Sri Rama’. He had developed interest in theatre from his childhood and joined Sudarshana Nataka Mandali without his parents' knowledge.
He grew up watching then stars such as Thyagaraja Bhagavatar, Rajakumari and T. Rajesh was born as Vidyasagar in Bangalore, India, on 15 April 1932, to a Kannada Kuruba Gowda family.