Long before Bleed, Sree was producing. All four years of high school, he ran 3-on-3 basketball tournaments entirely on his own, handling the budget, the prize money, the locations, the marketing, and every other piece of logistics, and he produced two boxing events on top of that. None of it was film, but it taught him how to make something happen from nothing.
In college, boxing was all he wanted. He set out to turn pro and become a champion, the kind of Indian fighter who puts his people on the map. For two years he trained competitively, and it consumed his life. Then, in 2023, he was diagnosed with keratoconus, an eye condition that ended his fighting career. Losing boxing felt like losing a part of himself, and he fell into a deep depression.
A few months later, he remembered how much fun he’d had making short films with friends in college, and he decided to pour the same drive into acting. He took his first acting class in October 2023, and never looked back.
In hindsight, he believes it happened for a reason. His goal had always been better representation for his people, and boxing could only take that so far. What shapes how people see each other is what they watch. Sree’s dream is to become a star in Hollywood, leading the kind of mainstream films that break stereotypes, because that’s where representation reaches the most people.
So he’s building toward it the way he always has, by producing his own opportunities. Bleed brought the fighter and the actor together. Now it’s becoming a feature, and Thylacine is next.
