Salaar: Cease Fire - Part 1

Same old story, bogus action scenes! Just a cheap copy of KGF. After Baahubali I have not seen any good movie from Prabhas. This was too a bore. Too many characters, took so much time for world building. If they were planning to make more movies under this franchise name, they should have focused less in world building and more on story telling. They could have progressed their world building with each new movie. This movie could not escape the shadow of KGF. People loved Yash in KGF and director tried to just copy paste those same things! And Throughout the movie, Prabhas was so expression less, I thought I was watching Arjun Kapoor!

There is no reason or point to watch the first half. Movie can directly start from the 2nd half.

The pace of the film rises too fast in the 2nd half. This literally creates confusion in plot.

The direction and BGM is far better in KGF.

Being a pan-India and a broad film, the director must spend some time on VFX works. The VFX is too poor in some sequences, which will not make a quality film. Actors did a great work, the presence of PRABHAS filled the theatres.

A commercial film.

I am really waiting for the drama in khansar. The entire drama will be similar to GoT.

The overall verdict - Watch it to watch SALAAR 2.

Synopsis: The film invests significant time in world-building but falls short of captivating the audience within its narrative.

First half: The initial segment is rather mediocre. While the Interval block attempts to instill excitement, the audience struggles to connect with the story from the outset. The buildup feels somewhat excessive.

Second half: Exhaustive. A substantial twist at the end sets the stage for part 2, but its impact is diminished by a desire for the film to conclude. The prolonged buildup doesn't adequately match the actual scenes, resulting in a sense of loud anticipation that one wishes to end. Trimming 30 minutes from the 3-hour runtime would have made it a more engaging watch.

Background music is subpar, excessively loud, creating an unwanted auditory experience. The songs merely exist without evoking much interest.

Final verdict: "Salaar" is a film worth exploring when time permits. It has its moments of attraction, but overall, it delivers a rather lackluster cinematic journey.

To be honest. It is very long and boring. We have already seen KGF and the same pattern follows. Nothing new, nothing entertaining. Prashanth is still in the KGF world. Visuals, back ground score is okay but as I said i still felt like KGF.

The story is very confusing because of too many characters , it could have been crisp and shorter. It's not at all engaging, too many serious characters which I don't mind instead it could have been entertaining. Too much hype and we think like something is going to happen but man it is seriously silly and nothing really doesn't happen.

Take it easy Prashanth Neel.

One word.. BORING.!

Salaar Part 1 has an unbearable first half, with useless exposition, a needless Shruti Hassan (thankfully not a romantic interest for Prabhas), an overbearing and supremely annoying mom-son angle, ultrabasic mass hero build-ups, and a tame set-piece (Anbariv Masters, what the hell is happening here?). Some kids even refer to Prabhas as a cut-out, and that's exactly what he is for the entirety of the initial half. Though he looks good, the man is stiffer than tree bark, and Eashwari Rao (playing his mother) is supposedly emoting for the both of them, as she's asked to ham it up. I haven't seen Ugramm and I don't intend to see it either, especially if it's anything like this.

It's only in the second half that the film starts its world-building exercise, and since there's only 90 minutes to do so, writer-director Prashant Neel is forced to explain key plot points over voiceovers. Dozens of new characters are introduced, a whole lawbook is explained in a few shots and lines, a power tussle is set in motion. It's also here that Prithviraj Sukumaran enters the scene but for a large chunk of the film, neither he nor Prabhas have any essential bits of dialogue. All of it is reserved for the final act and the cliffhanger(ish) finale, and though the duo redeemed their parts to some extent, I barely felt the emotional strength of their presumed, long-standing friendship. Ravi Basrur delivers a humdrum score, and except for the main theme, his efforts fell short. The less said about the edits, the better.

It also sucks that the set pieces feel boringly repetitive (goons are flying in all directions) and the only instance I felt like appreciating cinematographer Bhuvan Gowda's work is during an action block set in a village where Goddess Kali is the deity. There are some fantastic shot choices in this segment, supplemented well by the color grading. The rest of the film visually feels like an extension of the KGF franchise, there isn't much here that you haven't seen in those two films. Also, I'm glad I saw this in Tamil; the dubbing was decent, and the translations too weren't the shabbiest. Still, Salaar Part 1 did next to nothing for me as a cinephile - utterly disposable!