“Parasite didn’t work much for me. I felt the film was a little slow in the beginning. We started watching the film a little bit late around 10 pm, and so halfway through, I dozed off and slept,” says filmmaker SS Rajamouli. However, the 46-year-old filmmaker’s critique of Parasite offended netizens, who trolled him on Twitter with comments such as: “Please comment on any film only after watching it properly and not sleeping midway. Not a movie buff’s trait.” Another angry user hinted at Rajamouli’s Baahubali series of films and said: “Rajamouli thinks a movie is all about unrealistic elevation of the lead actor” while another tweet said: “What do you expect from the guy who makes hero-worshipping movies, who comes from the mass masala movie industry?” In a television interview, SS Rajamouli apparently said that he started watching Bong Joo-ho’s Oscar-winning movie at night and snoozed off as he found the pace of the movie to be a “little slow.”
