India, Dec. 16 -- When filmmaker Vijay Kartikeyaa made his debut film Max with Kiccha Sudeep, the buzz around the film was that it was heavily inspired by the Karthi-starrer Kaithi. Now, as he prepares to present his sophomore film, which is yet again with Sudeep in the lead, the speculation is that he's rebranded Max as Mark, and that the script was meant to be a sequel to their successful first collaboration. That Sudeep is playing a cop yet again in a story set within a finite timeframe, just like Max, is what set these rumours in motion.

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"This is definitely not Max 2. Some audeinces are convinced that we've just called the film Mark, but that the charac...