Filmmaker Kunle Afolayan has urged those with mixed reviews about the second season of his hit series, Anikulapo: Rise of the Spectre, to exercise patience before passing judgment.

According to him, some people didn't understand the latest series because he tailored it to a specific audience.

“There’s something that’s is very peculiar about the kind of films that we make. We make films for the intellectual, not gbasgbos. We make films for people who can think,” he said in a video on social media.

Afolayan said those he created the project for understood it, adding that he was not expecting a wide approval.

He said, “I don’t expect that everybody will like the film. And I don’t even expect that everybody will understand the film, but I expect that the people I’m trying to appeal to, the people that I had at the back of my mind when I was conceiving the ideas that I know they will get it, and they got it.”

Afolayan further disclosed that he had received positive feedback from academics and scholars, saying, “I’ve heard from scholars, from professors, from deep thinkers, from people who don’t only think about now.”

Addressing critics who said they did not understand the series, Afolayan said, “It is a series that has many episodes. What you have seen are just few of the episodes. How do you conclude in your brain that it is not good when you have not even seen the entire thing?

“When you watch a series like ‘Game of Thrones’, you have to wait every week before a new episode comes out. So you haven’t even seen everything and then you concluded that the stories are all over the place. We have created new plots.”

The filmmaker recalled how one of his earlier projects got heavily criticised, only for the movie to gained worldwide recognition.

He said, “I remember when I did ‘Irapada’, when the film came out, some people came out, critiqued it and they called it all sorts. At the end of the day, the film travelled, it got awards, it was internationally recognised.

“And then we moved to ‘The Figurine,’ and I remember when we did ‘The Figurine,’ you know, some people were like, no, you know, all sorts. And we’re here now.”.

Encouraging fellow filmmakers, he said, “As a filmmaker, don’t listen, just keep making your films.

“Those who think they understand what film and how film critiquing works, well done, E Mu ra si. (Keep it up). For us, we’ll keep appealing to those who have sense, common sense.”