Prabhas’s Salaar movie finally released in theaters today, finally after Saaho, Radheshyam, and Lord Adi Purush has something better on his hands. But one very important thing that you should know is that Salaar is a Prashant Neel film, and Prashant Neel, the director, has created a formula that worked well in KGF and KGF 2 also and reused the same formula. Went to Salar.
The idea that was coming after watching the teaser trailer is that the final product is the same, only the story and characters have changed. The way of presenting them, the colors seen on the screen, reaction shots, even actions are all very similar styles. So go with the same expectations because someone who has not seen KGF may find this movie quite strange. So PSA, don’t go deep and try to find logic because you are not asking every question on everything shown, then you can enjoy it a little.
Like, they have based the entire picture on the screen presence of Prabhas because the dialogues are very minimal. In the course of two and a half hours, there comes a jail scene where he speaks four lines to his friend, then I got relieved that he said if you. Are you wondering how the hero has not spoken anything? No, there are dialogues but mostly one-liners because the majority of the work has been done by the side characters. Salaar as a whole may or may not impress you, but there is one thing which Prashant Neel knows very well. There are such moments, such scenes, in a short time, the perfect build is created which becomes an instant hit, and the audience starts clapping after seeing the hero in slow motion. Like taking permission from your mother and becoming a 10-strong hand in beating goons or the ending of the movie, which is predictable.
So in terms of world-building, it goes a stage higher than KGF in terms of sheer size and complexity. To understand the politics that are going on, it becomes difficult because there are a lot of characters who are giving shape to it. Because they have crammed all this stuff into the second half. The first half takes its time to start by focusing on the trauma that will reveal itself in the next picture.
In one scene, Prabhas goes to wash his hands with water but he sees blood. Consequences of War Are you going so deep, but no, it does not go that deep because the mystery on which it starts is the story of 7 years ago, the story of which we are starting to tell. We do it only after the interval and show only a small portion of it because it has to be finished in the next picture. I am mentioning KGF movies so that you can get an idea of what level this Salaar is. Two things which people had connected with a lot were the emotion between mother and son and the angle of being the messiah of the poor, Bhai Rocky Bhai, that level Salar is not able to achieve. This time the focus has been on friendship for the emotional feel and it is. Good enough but not great.
KGF had received criticism for its love angles, which were dropped in it and did not even touch the action music. Ravi was not a fan of Basurgadi Bhai wala either. But one thing that I am not impressed with in this one is the action inside it. Honestly, you may like it, but the style is not that of making two cuts just before the hit and then in super slow motion the man is falling on the tire, hitting the ground, and showing the follow-through speed. Using ramping so aggressively is not my style. Yes, but the makers definitely gave it an upgrade. Seeing the 18 plus rating, that too just for its action. Some scenes were shown in which he is cutting off hands, legs and head. So if you are also a beast like me and like to see killings in pictures, then you will enjoy. Two specific moments. It is almost a three-hour-long movie and I will not lie, my mind definitely gets a little moist in between.
The main concept behind which is the buildup given just before it, it was kept for a long time. If you have listened to the music carefully and how the instruments are playing in it, then usually they rise slowly and suddenly they drop. When the drop happens, it is a lot of fun, but just imagine that the rising part, which should have been an optimum of two minutes, is being allowed to go on for only two and a half or four minutes. You are waiting for the beat to drop now, but don’t wait. Even after you get the point of what is at stake, they will still show it by twisting it and one thing that I did not understand at all is that at the beginning of the movie, special thanks is written to Rockstar Yash. Before watching the movie, I felt that the people of the movie had spoiled it. Are the credits finished? I am sitting and waiting for something to happen. Brother, it was not shown in my theater. If you notice, please tell me in the comments.
Finally overall opinion of mine I liked KGF and also liked Salaar but it missed its mark on some things and its run time is long. It is not as good as Rocky Bhai movie but I watched it once or got some feeling. Nothing else but if you are a die-hard fan of Rocky Bhai and wanted to celebrate him but the previous movies did not give you the chance then definitely book a ticket and go and watch this, after keeping the group aside, it is like this for the rest of the general audience. That if you want to watch an action movie that too in KGF style in theaters then you can check out Salaar Expectations Kaise Lekhi. After reading this you must have understood.