Bagheera maker Dr Suri: ‘After Lucky I was to do another film with Yash, but…’

Bagheera maker Dr Suri talks about his association with Rocking Star Yash and if another collaboration is on the cards

Yash's Lucky was Dr Suri's first directorial

Dentist-turned-filmmaker Dr Suri’s first tryst in cinema was as an associate of director Prakash Veer (Milana Prakash), on the film Gokula, which is where he met and became friends with Yash, who was also a newbie back then. Following this association, Yash coaxed Dr Suri to turn filmmaker and the duo collaborated on a film called Lucky in 2012, after which they wanted to do another movie. Dr Suri even had a script ready, but by then, he and Yash had grown so close that the former became the actor’s right-hand man, guiding him on creative decisions, including script narrations, etc.

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“Till KGF, I was part of Yash’s inner circle and in all this time, to my bad luck, and, of course, his fotune, the scripts that came to him at that point, were all better than what I had in mind. So, the idea of us collaborating again kept getting pushed ahead – that next time never came, eventually. After KGF, on which I was a part of the writing team and the urge to make another film hit me again. That’s when I got to work on Bagheera,” he explains.

Will there be another film with Yash?

So, what happened to the script that he had for Yash? Is there a scope to revive it? “Oh no, that’s too old a subject now. It was a film that was meant to give Yash a certain elevation, but now he is beyond all such storylines,” he says.

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Dr Suri’s return to direction, Bagheera, meanwhile, will be in theatres on October 31. It has Roaring Star Sriimurali in the lead and is based on a story by KGF maker Prashant Neel. The film is Neel and Dr Suri’s attempt at the superhero genre, with Sriimurali playing a police officer, who wears a mask and costume at night to fight evil in society.

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