‘I won’t be Dr Sreeleela’: Sreeleela on completing MBBS while filming Pawan Kalyan’s Ustaad Bhagat Singh, and why she won’t use Dr prefix in films | Telugu News
4 min readHyderabadMar 18, 2026 07:05 PM IST Two years is a long time to hold onto a film. When Sreeleela first joined the sets of Ustaad Bhagat Singh in April 2023, she could not have known that the project would stretch well into 2025 before wrapping up. Shooting started, paused, and resumed while the world around her kept moving. Other offers came and went. She let some of them go, because she was already committed here. Looking back, she says she does not regret staying with it. In an interaction with SCREEN, Sreeleela said, “What kept me invested was the character itself.” She calls it the most well-written role she has had since she started acting. In the movie, Sreeleela steps into the role of Leela, playing a spirited, playful young woman who enters Pawan Kalyan’s character’s life and brings a lightness to the film. Her previous outings have led to mixed reviews with critics often noting that while she ‘danced well’, her character had little bearing on the story. This time, she says, …
