S for Sundeep

S for Sundeep

M K Sinu

When Sundeep Kishan worked as an assistant director with Gautham Menon, before making his on screen debut with Sneha Geetham, little did he know that he had to prove himself each time before the audience accepted him as an actor. Having said that his ambitions and aspirations has always been towering the moon. 

With unconventional and scrawny looks, many would have cast him aside after his first film, but critics saw great potential in him. Prasthanam, his next film, directed by Deva Katta, propelled him into the league of actors. For Sundeep, investing in that kind of a story with texture got him noticed. Albeit the movie found few takers.

Raj Nidimoru & Krishna D.K took notice of Sundeep’s acting prowess and cast him as ‘Savan’ in the Hindi movie Shor in the City, a portrayal that is unmistakably a strong one, and as an actor, he went sky-bound like a butterfly.

Nothing venture, nothing gain. So then Sundeep ventured and how? Reaping the fruits of his hard work was with the movie Routine Love Story, a reasonably successful film in the rom-com genre. A good-natured and thoughtfully constructed film. After which Sundeep did Gundello Godari, here again an earnest performance by him. The film premise was against the backdrop of devastating flash floods of 1986 set in a hamlet on the coast of river Godavari.       

With the success of Venkatadiri Express Sundeep Kishan has finally arrived. You cannot classify him as an A lister in the Tollywood bandwagon nor park him anywhere below. If only a director can now serve us a masala movie straight up with him as hero. There he is.