Suri is a 2000 Telugu-language film directed by Sankara Kumar (Editor Shankar) in his directorial debut. The film stars J. D. Chakravarthy and Priyanka Trivedi. It was produced by Tammareddy Bharadwaja. The lead actor J. D. Chakravarthy also provided the story, screenplay and dialogues for the film, though he was not credited in the movie credits.^[1][2] Suri released on 28 December 2000 and was a box-office disaster.^{[2][1][3][4][5]}

J. D. Chakravarthy himself produced and directed the Hindi remake of the film titled Durga (2002).^[6]

Cast

• J. D. Chakravarthy as Suri
• Priyanka as Gayatri
• Jaya Prakash Reddy as Ram Das
• Sayaji Shinde
• A. V. S. Subramanyam
• Jagga Rao
• Uttej
• Tanikella Bharani

Production

Shankar, who worked with Ram Gopal Varma and Krishna Vamsi as editor made his debut as a director with the film.^[2] Tammareddy Bharadwaja produced the film. Shankar handled both editing and direction.^[2] J. D. Chakravarthy who played lead the lead role also provided the story, screenplay and dialogues for the film. But, he was not credited for his writing work in the movie credits.^[1][2] Producer Tammareddy Bharadwaja attributed this to him lacking the required money to put the movie titles or even marketing the film in newspapers.^[1]

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Vidyasagar and released by Aditya Music.

Release

The film released on 28 December 2000.^[2][1]

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