Darling Krishna: In my 10-year film career, beside Love Mocktail, Kousalya Supraja Rama is the only script that excited me

In the last couple of years, one of the major criticisms that actor-filmmaker Darling Krishna has faced is that he’s doing films back-to-back and that they all belong to the same genre. Barring his own directorials – Love Mocktail 1 and 2 - that came two years apart, none of the other films he’s done between them and thereafter made any impact on the box office. The actor is aware of the not-too-flattering social media discussions about his career choices, but says that he’s not the only one to blame.

In a recent interview with Film Companion, Krishna addressed this issue and said that he signed a few films because he firmly believes that established actors ought to do at least 3-4 films a years, so that audiences get at least 2 star-driven projects a month, which bodes well for the industry as a whole. What happened in his case, explains Krishna, is that the pandemic delayed some of the films he’d taken up after Love Mocktail and they’ve all been coming out now one after the other.

As for the genre, at one point, the actor had told OTTplay that romantic dramas/comedies were a favoured genre, because of their repeat value, unlike a thriller, where, once the mystery is unravelled, there is no going back to it. Now, though, he knows that he’s got to change up the genres he’s working in and has been on the lookout for something different, but says that he hasn’t been able to find a good script.

During a recent Twitter space conversation with fans, Krishna said that his next, Kousalya Supraja Rama is the last film that he signed up for after Love Mocktail 2, way back in March 2022. Since then, he’s had script narrations, no doubt, but none that wowed him. The actor-filmmaker went to the extent of saying that in his 10-year film career, Kousalya Supraja Rama is the only script that literally amazed him, barring, of course, his own films.

In the film, Krishna plays Rama, the son of Siddegowda, who is brought up under the firm hand of his father, who believes that women are and should remain inferior to men. Rama grows up to be arrogant, self-centred and chauvinistic young man, whose world view then changes because of the women in his life, mainly his mother, Kousalya. How he goes from being his ‘father’s son’ to becoming ‘mama’s boy’ is what the Shashank directorial is all about.