Supriya Suri

Supriya Suri is an Indian film director and producer known for her work in documentary, short fiction, and docu-fiction cinema. She directed Maestro: A Portrait — A Film on Buddhadeb Dasgupta, a documentary commissioned by the Films Division of India, and the feature documentary Aruna Vasudev: Mother of Asian Cinema.

Career

Suri studied film direction in Paris on a scholarship and began her career working in film curation, criticism, and cinema programming before moving into filmmaking.

Her first directorial project was Maestro: A Portrait — A Film on Buddhadeb Dasgupta, a 52-minute documentary on filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta, commissioned by the Films Division of India.

She later directed the short fiction film Boys From Hinterland. Her feature documentary Aruna Vasudev: Mother of Asian Cinema, which profiles film critic and festival founder Aruna Vasudev, has been screened at international film festivals.

Suri also completed the docu-fiction Main Tenu Phir Milangi (also known as We Shall Meet Yet Again).

Filmography

• Maestro: A Portrait — A Film on Buddhadeb Dasgupta (2013)
• Aruna Vasudev: Mother of Asian Cinema (2021)
• Main Tenu Phir Milangi (2022)
• Boys From Hinterland (2019)