Palnati Surya Pratap

Palnati Surya Pratap (Director) (born 13 January 1978) is an Indian Film director, and Screenwriter who predominantly works in Telugu cinema. Born in Bhadrachalam, Bhadradri Kothagudem District of Telangana, Palnati Surya Pratap worked as an Assistant director in Suresh Productions, Editor Mohan and Sukumar. He began working as a writer and assisted Sukumar. He is specialized in screenplay and wrote screenplays for several films.

Palnati Surya Pratap made his directorial debut with Current in 2009, which was presented by Annapurna Studios. Later he worked as a Story Writer for the movie 1: Nenokkadine (2014). Palnati Surya Pratap made his second movie Kumari 21F whose success catapulted him to stardom. Under the banner Sukumar Writings, he made his second film with Kumari 21F (2015), whose story and screenplay were penned by Sukumar.

Early and personal life

Palnati Surya Pratap took his creative steps from his childhood itself, he has participated in many cultural activities & events from his schooling. He is a poet from his early life and got many state level awards in the English poetry. During his graduation days, he wrote Plays and Play-lets, which got 3 state level awards for Best Writer and Best Director. After his graduation he collaborated with All India Radio for more than one year. His passion for his movies has made him quit his studies. He discontinued his Post Graduation M.C.A and entered into movies and joined as an Assistant Director for many movies under Suresh Productions.

Debut & Breakthrough: 2008-2015

Surya Pratap a protégé of Sukumar started working as Screenwriter for a couple of movies. In this process, he has narrated a Script to Annapurna Studios who were impressed with his script. Within no time the movie Current got released in 2009. Music is by Devi Sri Prasad and Atu Nuvve Itu Nuvvu song is a favorite track for many till date. Later, he worked as Story writer for 1: Nenokkadine (2014) which has been a dream project for Sukumar

He started working for his new script under the Sukumar Writings banner as a script writer Kumari 21F which has been started as small budget movie but with names of technicians like Sukumar who penned the story, screenplay and also produced the movie, R. Rathnavelu with his magical spell has captured beautiful visuals for the movie and Devi Sri Prasad Scored thumping music for the movie, all these elements has brought massive craze to the project. Kumari 21F has catapulted Palnati Surya Pratap into a different league. Kumari 21F has been released worldwide on 20 November 2015. It has got a positive response from all the corners and created a sensation all over.