Supriya Suri

Supriya Suri
OccupationsFilm director, producer
Known forDocumentary films

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.[1]

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.[1]

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.[2]

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.[3]

Suri also completed the docu-fiction Main Tenu Phir Milangi (also known as We Shall Meet Yet Again).[4]

Filmography

  • Maestro: A Portrait — A Film on Buddhadeb Dasgupta (2013)[2]
  • Aruna Vasudev: Mother of Asian Cinema (2021)[3]
  • Main Tenu Phir Milangi (2022)[4]
  • Boys From Hinterland (2019)[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Supriya Suri". International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) India. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Maestro: A Portrait – A Film on Buddhadeb Dasgupta". Imagine India International Film Festival. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Aruna Vasudev: Mother of Asian Cinema". Imagine India International Film Festival. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
  4. ^ a b c "Indian Cinema – Supriya Suri". The Seventh Art. Retrieved 16 December 2025.