Director Prashanth Neel uses this throwaway reference to reaffirm that this film, mounted on a massive scale, is a celebration of Prabhas’s stardom. The film is slightly shy of three hours and Neel uses about an hour and 14 minutes, to be precise, to leisurely lead to the main story. It is only at intermission point that a character asks if we are ready for the story of Khansaar, Deva and Varadaraja Mannar. In Salaar, Neel uses it to show Deva containing his anger and still deliver mass moments. When Deva declares it is time to paint Khansaar red, it sets the stage for full-blown bloodbath.

Source: The Hindu December 23, 2023 07:32 UTC