Prabhas Salaar Release and Review Live Updates: KGF fame Prashanth Neel is back with another crime, action thriller. Titled Lettuce Part 1: Ceasefirethe film led by Prabhas and Prithviraj Sukumaran, hits the theatres on December 22. It is set in the crime-ridden fictional city of Khansaar, where Varadha Raja Mannar, portrayed by Prithviraj, gets into a fierce battle to claim the city’s lordship. Salaar, played by Prabhas, joins his friend in combating enemies to help him become the city’s ruler.
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Salaar also stars Tinu Anand, Shruti Haasan, and Jagapathi Babu, among others. It is releasing in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada, and Hindi. It is up for a cinematic clash with Shah Rukh Khan starrer Dunki, which has hit the theatres on Thursday. Both films are fighting to get the maximum screens in the theatres. However, Salaar has an upper hand in the advance bookings and is expected to get a bigger opening than Rajkumar Hirani’s Dunki.
Ever since the trailer of Salaar was released, debates have been rife regarding the alleged glorification of on-screen violence in the film. But the film’s director Neel believes that filmmakers downplay violence in movies. During an interaction with Galatta Plus, he said, “Look at what is happening around the world today. It’s all real. We feel that cinema is an exaggeration… But if you see what is happening in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip, you know that we are probably underplaying it in our movies. The reality is out there. We are not using violence to say that it is good. We always show a hero using violence to bring down bad people. There is a moral to it.”
In one of his other interviews, Neel clarified that if Salaar is categorised as a mass movie, it’s solely due to the film’s underlying emotion. He added that the violence depicted in the film is limited to what its emotion demands.
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