Blockbuster Kannada director Prashanth Neel's Salaar starring Telugu superstar Prabhas is all set to take a massive opening in cinemas worldwide starting December 22. The action thriller film also stars Prithviraj Sukumaran, Shruti Haasan, Jagapathi Babu, Bobby Simha, Tinnu Anand, Easwari Rao, Sriya Reddy, John Vijay, among others, and is coming out in Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, and Malayalam languages. In that light, Prashanth Neel, who became one of the most sought-after filmmakers in India after the smash success of his KGF films, has opened up in an interview with National Award-winning film critic Baradwaj Rangan, the Editor-in-Chief of Galatta Plus, about recreating small moments from the Yash-starrer in Prabhas' Salaar.
Speaking about writing scenes catered to specific audiences, Prashanth Neel said, "I'll just give you an example from K.G.F: Chapter 1. After the movie came out and it got its response, many people have come and told me that they loved the bun scene. So, that has nothing to do with scale. It has nothing to do with elevation. The way I see successful directors do it and I try to mimic them is I try to make the small moments in a movie work more than the bigger moments. I think that is what they'll take back with them. And, in Salaar also, we've put in a lot of small moments." He added, "Small moments without all the graphics and all the punch lines and all of those things. That is what we concentrate on doing because we know we'll get our fights right. We'll get our punch dialogues right. The moments in between are the most difficult ones. And, I think that is what is pan-India. It is not the big fights because everybody does brilliant fights and today the audience have become judges and they know that they would have used ropes for this and they would have done that and this." Prashanth Neel further stated, "The thing that they cannot take away from you are the small moments. They cannot judge you with that at all if you get it right. All the movies that I have loved as pan-India movies, I have loved the small moments in them. A lot of people told me in KGF when the mother comes and holds his hand when he's injured, they loved that scene. I tried to recreate a lot of those scenes with Salaar and I tried to make sure that comes out right. That is the pressure on me to get those scenes absolutely right and I think I've got it right with Salaar also."
Watch Prashanth Neel in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan in the video below:
