From dual timelines to time travel: How SS Rajamouli’s storytelling leapt towards Varanasi

Every major SS Rajamouli film has introduced a new storytelling technique. Varanasi, releasing April 7, 2027, appears to combine these techniques into a time-travel epic that spans continents, millennia and mythology.Director SS Rajamouli does not repeat himself. Every major film in his career has introduced a storytelling technique that did not exist in the one before it.