She’s no stranger to Tamil cinema either, as the 2024 film Lover made her a household name. Actor Sri Gouri Priya recently starred in the Telugu film Chennai Love Story alongside Kiran Abbavaram and received praise for her performance.
“As a child, I was too young to understand the difference between Telugu and Tamil films as many dubbed films would release here,” the Secunderabadi native tells Hindustan Times, adding, “A lot of my childhood favourite films are Tamil dub.”
“It’s not my mother tongue, and I wouldn’t understand the language when they saw me in one of my Telugu films and approached me. But soon, I started using my dialogue to converse in real life, and I would talk to people in Tamil while shooting. By my second film (Happy Raj), I was fully versed in the language, to the point that I could understand and speak my lines,” adds Gouri. Gouri now has her third Tamil film, Bro Club (initially titled Bro Code), lined up. Directed by Karthik Yogi, the film is produced by and stars Ravi Mohan , along with SJ Suryah, Arjun Ashokan, Shraddha Srinath, and Malavika Manoj. Chennai Love Story is streaming on SonyLIV.
However, the actor says that she never expected to be a part of the Tamil film industry someday, let alone find fame there. “I’m listening to scripts and taking a small break now because the last year and a half has been rough and overwhelming,” says the actor, adding, “I shot for Bro Club last year and am waiting to go back on set for that.
