India, Dec. 18 -- In the last few years, one thing that Kannada superstar Kiccha Sudeep has been clear about is in ensuring brevity in filmmaking. He's been advocating crisply edited, to the point narratives with no unnecessary diversions, which he first implemented in Vikrant Rona , and better still with Max , in which he got rid of the romantic arc for his character. It continues with Mark, his Christmas 2025 release, which is all of 2 hours and 25 minutes in duration.

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On a recent podcast while promoting Mark, Sudeep said that as much as he loves to do romantic scenes, fights, family drama or comedy, none of it should ever feel forced in a film's narrativ...