[4] He took acting lessons in Whistling Woods Academy, Mumbai run by filmmaker Subhash Ghai.

[6] Suriya made his screen debut in 2012, with the film Crazy Loka, in which he was cast opposite Harshika Poonacha.

Suriya rose to fame by 2014 from Agnisakshi, a television series, which aired on Colors Kannada.

After the soap Premaloka (2019),[8] Suriya featured in Switch { Case N (2024) as an aspiring cricketer who lands a job in the IT sector and has to deal with the internal politics at his workplace.

[9] He made his debut in Telugu television with the soap, Krishnamma Kalipindi Iddarini, a remake of the Bengali series Saanjher Baati, in which he portrayed a visually impaired man.