According to Karthik, once audiences entered the film expecting one kind of experience, the layered storytelling may have felt overwhelming to some. \u201cWhen that expectation came in, people started feeling like there were too many things happening at once. We got a lot of good feedback, but a lot of people also said they didn\u2019t connect, especially with the second half, because they felt like the story was going in too many directions,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The filmmaker, however, defended the internal logic of the screenplay and explained that from his perspective as a writer, the narrative had a clear emotional and philosophical throughline. \u201cBut as a writer, when I look at it, that was the story. Like you said, there\u2019s a Krishna layer running in the background, and there\u2019s also a girl who follows Buddhism and, in a way, helps this Krishna-like figure reach his destined place. That was the journey we were trying to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Karthik, once audiences entered the film expecting one kind of experience, the layered storytelling may have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,214087,214088,214089,214090,214091,270,183470],"class_list":["post-500263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-karthik-subbaraj","tag-karthik-subbaraj-on-retro","tag-karthik-subbaraj-on-retro-bad-reviews","tag-karthik-subbaraj-on-retro-criticism","tag-karthik-subbaraj-retro","tag-movies","tag-suriya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}