Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire Review: Prashanth Neel Has Elevated Heroism to Such An Extent

Cast: Prabhas, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Shruti Haasan, Jagapathi Babu, Easwari Rao, Bobby Simha, Tinu Anand

Director: Prashanth Neel

Where We Watched: In Theaters

Filmyhype.com Ratings: 4/5 (four stars)

After Baahubali, Prabhas, who is looking for that range of success, has recently come up with the movie Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire. Prabhas is one of the biggest Indian superstars. With KGF, director Prashanth Neel got a pan-India image. Naturally, there are expectations when there is a film in combination of these two. But Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire has more expectations than expected. No special promotions were done for this movie. At least not even a prerelease event was held for fans. However, the prerelease business did at a record level. Advance ticket bookings were made in such a range that the servers were down in some places. All this is Prabhas-Prashanth Neel combination magic. How did Salaar entertain the audience with so many expectations? Another Pan India hit on Prabhas’ account? Let’s go to the review to know.

In a goddess-worshiping country, incidents of rape of girls make headlines in newspapers and news channels almost every day. These devils now come out in broad daylight. With his pack, to hunted chicks. They make kites of lust and fly them. Wherever these kites fall, the girl there becomes their victim. Girls also get tired after doing puja. Kali Maa does not come but then comes a Salaar, a Veda who does not follow the written laws. He sacrifices himself to these terrorists and becomes a hero for whom the boundaries of language, region, and tradition break down. This single scene of the film Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire takes Prabhas to the pinnacle of manhood, where earlier he had reached only Baahubali. A mother and maternal uncle are also here. There is also an imaginary princess here. But this time there is also a friend in the story, on whom Veda does not even bite the hand of anyone who lays hands on him. He bites her throat.

Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire Review: The Story Plot

It was Khansar‘s anarchic empire. Even after the independence of the country, the region continued to be autonomous. King Rajamannar (Jagapathi Babu) ruled the empire after making a special constitution and building strong walls on four sides of the kingdom. Raja Mannar decides to make his son Varada Rajamannar (Prithviraj Sukumaran) an aristocrat. Raja Mannar goes out for some years on an important work related to the kingdom. Meanwhile, a civil war for the throne begins. The rest of the nobles joined forces to bring an army to end the flood. Varada enlists childhood friend Deva (Prabhas) as his army. Who is this god? What is the connection between flood and gods? How could God face such an army alone? What is the role of Adya (Shruti Haasan) in this story? What dramatic developments took place in this battle for the throne? It should be seen on the screen.

Devaratha (Prabhas) and Varada Raja Mannar (Prithviraj Sukumaran) are childhood friends in a village called Khansar. They are ready to give their lives to each other. On the other hand, Rajamannar (Jagapathi Babu) is the master of that Khansar. He once went out of the empire. By the time he returns, he wants his son to be the king of Mannar. After he leaves, the fight for the chair starts. The rest of the lords all want to kill Varada together. To whom they will bring their army. At the same time, Varada brings Deva as his army to Khansar. What happened after that? Who won the fight for the chair…? Why did Adya (Shruti Haasan) come between them? The rest of the story is why Deva and Varada, who were originally best friends, became sworn enemies.

The films are for adults only. However, unlike ‘Animal’, there are no nude scenes here. The entire film tells a story that spans the period from 1917 to 2017. Its geography is that of Khansar which was erased from the map of India in 1947 by its inhabitants. But the writers of this film have unleashed the horses of imagination in such a way that they take this story from America and spread it across the country. Veda, living with his teacher’s mother in Tinsukia, Assam, has stayed away from violence to keep his promise to his mother. But, one day a young woman comes from America and creates a stir in this story which had been quiet for 25 years. On the other hand, the power struggle continues in Khansar. When King Mannar, sitting on the throne, goes out for a few days to confirm an intelligence, his daughter takes over the throne, and then a deadly conspiracy begins. This empire runs on the formula of Balaideva Rajyam, and Balaideva Asanam, and Bala is like the son of Kali in the Vedas.

Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire Review and Analysis

Salaar is the story of two friends set against the backdrop of a battle for the throne. The director started this story with Deva and Varadala’s childhood. God, Varada’s friendship, Varada’s sacrifice for God, and God’s words are all interesting. Later the story runs from the side of Adhya’s (Shruti Haasan) character. It is interesting to see Adya, Dev’s mother taking refuge with Iswari Rao, where Dev is introduced, and on the other hand, some characters come to the screen with ‘Khansar Seal’. The way the director has designed the character of Prabhas as a god is very powerful. God’s character is like a burning ball of fire, like a burning fire. God looks like a dynamite that doesn’t know when it will explode. In the scene where Adhya is saved from the villains, the sound effect used before the engine becomes a star is only suitable for a cutout like Prabhas. That action scene was so terrifying.

The interval bong is also mind-blowing. Prabhas fans have designed this action sequence to celebrate. There, the way of coining the ‘Khansar Seal’ bag drop takes the mass to another level. The entire first half is just a powerful intro to Prabhas’ character. In the second half, the real story of Khansar comes to the fore. Prashanth Neel created an imaginary anarchic kingdom called Khansar for this film. He used to tell the history of that kingdom in the form of voice-over. In this sequence, fifteen new characters will appear on the screen at the same time. Moreover, the constitution of Khansar, its rules, voting, power… all these are likely to cause a bit of confusion. But after Deva enters Khansar, the story picks up again. The Kali Mata episode will kick fans. Later, the scene with Nagang’s character also takes the action to another level. But till then the audience has many questions. All of them are not answered in the first half but who is God? The twist about his connection with this story made the second part interesting.

Dude, you have to believe some of the cutouts. This dialogue has worked for years. If Prabhas uses cutouts correctly, Prashanth Neel has proved that the story will not work with Kakarakai. After Baahubali. In other words, he elevated Prabhas more than Rajamouli. From the beginning of the movie, till the end card falls, and the story goes with only elevations. As if every scene is the climax. Prashanth Neel has raised the character of the hero in every scene. If you look at everything. you can’t help but feel that he is like Amma Mogudu for Veedevadra’s elevation. Seeing the small plastic knife in the hero’s hand, the mother is shocked. scared. The thought of a mother shuddering at the plastic knife that caused so much bloodshed in the past gives goose bumps. Prashanth Neel left no stone unturned to elevate his hero. Like the scene where Geetha crosses the line in Chhatrapati. In this, the director wrote three or four scenes. The scenes are woven around them.

Even if there is no hero, he has written the screenplay so that his effect can be seen in every scene. Every time Prabhas fights on screen, the audience goes crazy. That’s how Prashanth Neel used that cutout. Just walking like that is enough. Major positive action blocks for Salaar. As mentioned earlier, those 4 fights were close. Cateramma’s fight in the second half is next level. It has been a long time since that range elevation was seen on the Indian screen. The director has already established why the hero will go to any lengths for his friend. But at the same time, the hero’s mother says to wake up her son when the need arises. The rest of the time she doesn’t care who dies. It is not shown why it changes like that. Perhaps director Prashanth Neel will give complete clarity in the second part. Prabhas’s characterization is amazing. Deva Patra looks like a volcano ready to erupt. Prashanth Neel has designed it so that the audience will watch it with interest. The screen showed what the lava would look like after it had fallen. If you go for mass hysteria, you can enjoy Salaar Super.

Not like that. We need stories and narratives. If you want to have logic, this movie may not be that high. This is the dialogue of Prabhas in ‘Mirchi’, ‘You have to see the cutout and believe it, dude’. While watching the character of Deva and the heroism in it, this dialogue comes to mind once again. If Prabhas fails, no other actor can match the role. God’s role was so powerful. In one scene, a grandmother approaches Deva and tries to touch him. Because it says, ‘Are you real? or not. God is so unbelievable. His character does not have many dialogues. Some of the said dialogues exploded. Prithviraj Sukumaran impresses Varada Rajamannar. The way he portrayed his character is good. Shruti Haasan looks natural in the role of Adhya but has yet to reveal what her story is. Jagapathi Babu, Maim Gopi, Bobby Simha, Shriya Reddy, and Jhansi are impressive in their scope.

The film Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire is more frightening, more violent, and even more gruesome in its making than ‘Animal’. The video game generation needs movies like this on the big screen. They are bored of playing these violent video games on mobile, computers, and even on the big TV at home. They now want to see these experiences come to life on the IMAX screen. By making films of the KGF series, writer and director Prashanth Neel has understood that the Indian audience can be wooed by taking fantasy stories from history. Especially when it has a flavor like ‘Angry Young Man’ which is very much liked in the provinces of every language. This time Prashanth Neel has created a story like ‘Game of Thrones’. At least, it does not seem to be similar to the story of KGF in this film, nor is KGF star Yash seen anywhere in the film, but this story is going to go on for a long time. At the end of the film Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire, Prashanth Neel also announces its sequel film Saalar Part Two, without any post-credit scene.

After both the films of the Baahubali series, Prabhas’s stars have been in the spotlight. After this, his three films ‘Saaho’, ‘Radheshyam’ and Adipurush remained flops in a row. The film Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire is his revival at the box office. The film, which earned around Rs 50 crore just in booking even before its release, also indicates that if the magic of a capable director is found in Prabhas’ magic, then he remains a favorite actor of a large audience. The work that director Om Raut could not do in the film Adipurush, director Prashanth Neel has done for him in the film Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire. Making the story of two friends the seed of his story, Prashant has created such a huge banyan tree that even the heroine of the film gasps while counting its branches and wants to stop and take a sip. The whistles blown at the time of Prabhas’ arrival on the big screen are the real proof of his popularity and Prabhas also played a calm but ferocious character very well. But the film Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire is not Prabhas’s film alone.

Prithviraj Sukumaran plays the elder Vardha in this original story of Vardha, the childhood friend of the film’s main character Veda. He is the child of the second wife of the king of Khansar. Due to the sacrifice he made to save the honor of Veda’s mother, he becomes worse but in old age, the king remembers this prince. And, due to this one decision of the king, the commanders and chieftains of the entire Khansar get frightened. The literal meaning of Salaar is also Sardar. When Vardha’s life is in danger, her childhood Salaar Deva returns to save her. If Prabhas has done a good emotional performance in many scenes as a son, then Prithviraj Sukumaran impresses first as a helpless prince and then as a warrior who becomes a hero with the help of his friend. Whatever time Jagapati Babu is seen on screen, his appearance is remarkable. Shruti Haasan’s character only acts as a catalyst in this first part of the story. Shriya Reddy has taken charge of the female characters of the film Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire. Shriya Reddy has very powerfully established a female character among all the male characters on the chessboard of politics.

Reaching here through Fuji Color and Eastman Color, the color palette in cinema has also started helping in setting the color of the story. The color palette of the film Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire is black. And, that’s because all its main characters are dark. They are not divided into black and white. These days, cinema is enjoying making dark characters the basis of stories. Now neither Ranvijay Singh of ‘Animal’ has to tolerate bloodshed for his family nor Veda of Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire creating a massacre for her friend. This is a cinema of sensibilities. In this, those looking for Gudi Gudi cinema are gradually being marginalized. TL Venkatachalapathy has designed the film in a very grand manner.

Prabhas was convinced of the role of Devaratha. He used to do blood baths. Prabhas’ characterization seems to have fewer words and more action. If Prabhas is cut out in the interval block, there are no words. Prithviraj Sukumaran’s character suits well. He did justice to Varada’s character. Shruti Haasan is not a heroine but a character who carries the story. Jagapathi Babu, Shriya Reddy, and Bobby Simha have all done justice to their roles. Ravi Basrur has done magic once again. There are only three songs in it. All are situation songs. RR is very good. Re-recording has increased the range of action scenes. Bhuvan Gowda’s cinematography is very good. Kejief’s mark was more visible. Editing is ok. Prashanth Neel once again believes in elevations more than story. Had the story been stronger, the Salaary range would have been higher.

Bhuvan Gowda’s cinematography in the film Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire becomes the most successful arrow in Prashanth Neel‘s quiver. A different thinking is visible in Ambarivu’s breathtaking action direction. The skill of Ujjwal Kulkarni, who edited the film, in making it a part of an imaginary world by incorporating aerial photography of foreign locations into the scenes shot on the sets is also praiseworthy. The Hindi dubbing of the film is also quite impressive, and this has the potential to make the film Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire a popular film in the Hindi belt too. Yes, if Ravi Basrur’s music in the film had also been melodious, then the film would have become an adult film like ‘Animal’ worthy of getting a full four stars. The background music of the film is strong.

Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire Review: The Last Words

Technically, the film is on a high level. Especially the background music is mind-blowing. Music in Prabhas elevation scenes is next level. The camera work and editing style of Prashanth Neel is in the mark. Like KGF, Salaar is also seen in showing two or three layers of story in a single scene. The production design is good. The way the Kansara kingdom was set up was new. Prashant Neil once again showed his mark. Without revealing the story completely, the audience was kept in suspense and kept the story interesting. There is a huge army, guns, and war tankers. But before Prabhas were cut out they were getting smaller. Prashanth Neel has elevated heroism to such an extent.

Salaar Part 1 Ceasefire Review: Prashanth Neel Has Elevated Heroism to Such An Extent - Filmyhype

Director: Prashanth Neel

Date Created: 2023-12-22 14:17

Editor's Rating:
4

Pros

• Prabhas heroism,
• action scenes, interval bang
• background music, production values

Cons

• Confusing history of Khansar
• leaving some characters in question.