Prashanth Neel’s action-packed ‘Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire’ takes its time to get going, but eventually settles into a decent watch

The film stars Prabhas and Prithviraj Sukumaran. It may have worked better had it not wasted the first half on buildup, because post-interval, it takes off pretty well.

Prashanth Neel loves dark, violent worlds. In his first film, Ugramm, we had Mughor. Then came the gold fields of KGF. And now, in Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire, we have Khansaar, which exists within India geographically but for all other purposes is its own country. In every film, Prashanth keeps upping the tone and texture. In Mughor, we just had some generic ganglords. In the KGF films, things got more specific. We got gangsters with the very specific motive of controlling and ruling a gold-producing land. In Salaar, Prashanth goes all out with Khansaar. It is ruled by three tribes. Among the rulers, there are elaborate voting rituals. Among the savages, there are elaborate raping rituals, involving a kite. Each tribe has its own lineage of fathers and sons and assorted others. It’s dense. It’s fascinating. It’s mapped out down to the minutest detail. And for some strange reason, it all appears after the intermission point.

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