[2] Her father, Yash Pal Suri, had emigrated from India to work at a hospital in Teesside.
Her experiences documenting this period on camera inspired her to study documentary filmmaking at the National Film and Television School.
[1][2] In 2005, Suri's released the documentary I for India detailing her father's experiences as an 20th-century Indian immigrant in the United Kingdom based on his own tape recordings.
[2] Suri's narrative feature debut, Santosh was selected to screen in the Un Certain Regard portion of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
[7] She first began work on Santosh in 2016 when she was accepted to the Sundance Institute Director's Lab.