Prashanth Neel's next big film, Salaar: Part 1 - Ceasefire, starring Telugu superstar Prabhas, is gearing up for a grand worldwide theatrical release starting December 22. The buzz for the highly-anticipated Telugu epic action thriller has been high right from the get-go, with speculations also doing the rounds since the beginning that the upcoming film could be connected to the blockbuster Kannada filmmaker's KGF franchise starring Kannada star Yash, who has since gone on to become a nationwide sensation. With all eyes set on Salaar to take a stellar start at the box office, director Prashanth Neel sat down for a heart-to-heart conversation with National Award-winning film critic Baradwaj Rangan, the Editor-in-Chief of Galatta Plus, to talk about whether the Prabhas-starrer has any connection with his KGF universe.
The talk about Salaar and the KGF franchise being connected first began after the teaser of the Prabhas film was released on July 8 at 05:12 a.m., leading to a huge number of theories on social media stating that it was the time when Yash's Rocky bhai died in K.G.F: Chapter 2 (2022) story. Opening up on the probability of both the films and their characters existing in the same universe, Prashanth Neel explained, "There's absolutely no connection. I came to the realization that KGF was that big only after all these things happened because I don't exist on the social media platform. I knew KGF had made a lot of money which meant there was so much love, but it turned out to be a frenzy after that. People started comparing it to the tones that I had set in KGF and they started drawing all these theories out. I think this came out a long time before the teaser came out. I think, a couple of years back itself, they said, 'This must be from the universe of KGF'. It was my mistake that I did not come out and say it loud enough. There's no part of Salaar that has a connection with KGF."
Watch Prashanth Neel in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan in the video below:
