Yet another actor has turned director!

Chekravarthy, the lead star of SATYA, has turned director with DURGA. Co-starring Priyanka, Sayaji Shinde and Anjan Srivastava, Chekravarthy states “DURGA is not just a love story.”

When asked as to why there has been a long gap between SATYA (his last release as the lead man) and DURGA, the actor-turned-director is quick to retort, “It was intentional. I had planned it that way because I wanted a break. Also, I was not open to the idea of doing regular Hindi films.”

Describing DURGA as “a love story painted in blood”, Chekravarthy states that he's made the film the way he wanted to. “I believed in it and made it with utmost conviction. The film has 70 scenes in all and believe me, all 70 could be termed highlights.”

Starting his career as an assistant to Ramgopal Varma with SHIVA, in which Chekravarthy also played the bad guy, Chekravarthy worked with Ramu till SATYA, “after which I branched out in a different direction.”

The synopsis of DURGA.

Call it a father's heartfelt desire to marry his daughter into a happy, peaceful family or a well-intentioned gangster's desire to play the godfather to a concerned father or a young man's struggle to lead a normal life, DURGA is a passionate tale where the key of good intentions opens a pandora's box of fear, violence and death.

Love happens unexpectedly and trouble walks in uninvited. A father's worst fear turns into a living nightmare. A son is about to get married to the mob, with the death for dowry. A daughter prefers love to loyalty and the scales of justice are in the hands of the dark forces (Bhai's), for which the city often becomes a playground of bloodshed, murder and mayhem.

Quite unknowingly, quite unexpectedly, good people get caught up in a vicious, violent drama involving the lawless and the law. A simple question of love ends in a quest for survival.

DURGA has music by Vidyasagar. It is slated for release on March 29, 2002.