YVS Chowdary directed 8 films, Six of them were hits and ran for 100 days,Among six Devdas and Lahiri Lahiri Lahirilo were ran for more than 175 days. His recent films Okka Magadu and Saleem were the worst movies in Telugu film industry. Before becoming a director, he has associated with big directors such as K. Raghavendra Rao, Ram Gopal Varma, Mahesh Bhatt and Krishna Vamsi. YVS Chowdary is the owner of Bommarillu Vaari Banner and produced big hits like Lahiri Lahiri Lahirilo, Devdas and hit like Seathaiah.

YVS Chowdary was a movie lover and a fan of NTR before he entered Tollywood. He started the trend of making films with new star cast in Akkineni Nagarjuna's home production film titled Sri Seetharamula Kalyanam Choothamu Raarandi. He directed actors such as Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Akkineni Nagarjuna,, Nandamuri HariKrishna, Mahesh Babu, Nandamuri Balakrishna and Manchu Mohanbabu in his other projects.He introduced "Venkat", "Chandu", "Chandni" in his first film. "Aditya Om", "Ankita Jhaveri", in his forth film and "Ram", "Ileana D'Cruz" in his sixth film.