About the movie

The film was initially titled SRI, which was later changed to Srikanth. The film's director Tushar revealed, the first film he wanted to make was the film on Srikanth Bolla, but couldn't do it as Srikanth Bolla being very busy with his work, couldn't find time to meet him. Then he approached Srikant The film was initially titled SRI, which was later changed to Srikanth. The film's director Tushar revealed, the first film he wanted to make was the film on Srikanth Bolla, but couldn't do it as Srikanth Bolla being very busy with his work, couldn't find time to meet him. Then he approached Srikanth through his business partner Ravi Mantha. Ravi Mantha (played by Sharad Kelkar in the film, also the narrator) was also instrumental in getting Tushar the rights to make the film on Srikanth Bolla, who had initially given the rights to another Bollywood director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. Ravi met with Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, who readily gave the rights to Tushar as he was not ready to make the film at that time. Read more