Movie: Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire
Director: Prashanth Neel 
Actors: Prabhas, Prithviraj Sukumaran
Rating: 1/5

No, don’t get me wrong. I do get Mad Max (2015) type of gladiatorial entertainment. Which this is—a ‘gandasa’/machete western, if you like.

Whether set in 2017 or flashing back to the mid-1980s, fire substitutes for electricity, that has yet to be invented, it seems. It’s all semi-dark in sepia tone. Every minute, time freezes in slo-mo to whack the crap outta various men, flying like saucers, landing on their face, as the screen gathers dust.