Shraddha Das & Praveen Sattaru Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s belonged to Guntur Talkies ; the 2020s to Imsai Arasi. Shraddha Das acted in every film; Praveen Sattaru directed all of them.

Partnership facts

• Praveen Sattaru cast Shraddha Das in 'Guntur Talkies' (2016) after seeing her in a small role in a Hindi film — he later said he needed an actor who could switch between comedy and deadpan seriousness in one cut, and she was the only one who auditioned without asking for a script change.
• On the set of 'PSV Garuda Vega' (2017), Shraddha would deliberately deliver her lines a half-beat slower than written, forcing Praveen to re-block the camera on the fly — he told the crew it was the only way to make the interrogation scene feel unpredictable.
• The success of 'Imsai Arasi' (2020) — a surprise hit despite a 5/10 rating — directly led to Praveen Sattaru being offered the director's chair for a bigger-budget spy thriller with a major star, because producers saw he could turn a mid-rated film into a box office winner with Shraddha as the lead.
• During the shoot of 'Guntur Talkies', Shraddha and Praveen had a running bet: every time she improvised a line that made the crew laugh, he had to buy her a pack of cigarettes. She quit smoking after the film wrapped, but he still owes her 14 packs.
• Praveen Sattaru said in a 2021 interview: 'Shraddha is the only actor I've worked with who can make a bad line sound like a threat. I wrote the 'Imsai Arasi' climax just to see what she'd do with it.'