What a lovely thing to wake up to! And now I get to share it with you all. Most important thing to know, SUBTITLES! Even on the little teaser, even just as it is released. I am now in love with these producers.
First, and most importantly, Prabhas looks Gooooood! I’ve been nervous because he’s had kind of that “lost the muscles too fast” look around his face and body, kind of disproportionate. And he never really has a great facial hair system in personal appearances. But he looks great! The modern-y costumes with the layers and the leather work on him, and they hit that sweet spot of unshaven and slightly long hair.
Second, the action looks really good! Not just cool car chases, but stuff like the camera looking through the grill as his hand reaches out to grab a gun, interesting stuff.
Third, Shraddha isn’t terrible! Okay, she only has like two lines, but she’s fine with them. And I know she can do the action stuff, she was good with what they gave her to do in Baaghi.
Now, the downside. These quick-quick-quick edits make me nervous. Sometimes that means they don’t have the whole film pulled together and are just throwing together the little bits that are finalized for the teaser.
I’m also nervous about the dark futuristic look. Because that dark rainy black look can get real boring, real fast, especially if the director is in love with how “different” it is.
And of course, we still have no idea what the plot is. But that’s less important, if it’s great action and good looking Prabhas around a plot that makes no sense, I’m still gonna watch and enjoy it.
Oh oh! I just rewatched and there is one more super important thing! Prabhas sounds like he did his own dubbing for the Hindi version. THANK GOODNESS!!! I want to watch the Hindi so I can kind of understand what they are saying, but I also want my rough Prabhas voice.
dontcallitbollywood 
I agree, it has a little Blade Runner feel to it, almost dark futuristic. Not sure I am up for that.
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The opening lines of the teaser imply a romance plot, if it is Blade Runner, but with a romantic story at the heart, that might work.
Also, songs! Big bright colorful songs would be good, but seems unlikely since the composers dropped out at the last minute.
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Uh-oh.
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Story here: https://dontcallitbollywood.com/2019/05/28/news-round-up-saaho-weird-karan-sigh/
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I thought this looked good but I don’t think I liked it as much as I liked the teaser they put out for Prabhas’s birthday…
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I think I liked it slightly better, more cool action moments.
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I hope I will be able to watch it in the cinema because it looks like something to watch on the big screen.
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Yeah, if nothing else black on black on black looks terrible on computer screens.
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Also the teaser for Manmadhudu 2 starring Nagarjuna and Rakul Preet came out today. It’s not a direct sequel to the original but I think they want to call back to Manmadhudu. I don’t know how I feel about it to be honest.
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Hmm. I liked the first bit until they did the twist and made Naga a player. What do you think it means that they are releasing it 6 days before Saaho? no faith in their movie or no faith in Saaho?
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With the insanely large amounts of money being touted for theatrical rights for Sahoo, I guess it will take up almost all screens available during its release. So releasing along with Sahoo might not be an option. But then a week before leaves only one good week for collections for Manmadhudu 2. Strange tactic.
Sreedhar Pillai writes about box-office of Tamil films in The Hindu in a column titled TradeWinds. You can see latest articles here – https://www.thehindu.com/search/?q=sreedhar+pillai&order=DESC&sort=publishdate He gives a great insight on number of screen and stuff.
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In Telugu, they stopped parallel releases of big heroes/movies years ago. All theaters are with 4 bigwigs/families (public secret, though none confirms officially) – so, they have the mutual understanding.
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So that would be Akkineni’s, Daggubati’s, Mega family and ______?
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Dil Raju
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All the initial dialogues are pulling legs of a 40+ year old virgin bachelor!
There have been jokes on Telugu social media on the last dialogue – “I don’t fall in love, I only make love” – a majority of them, being non-native, didn’t get the exact meaning of “make love” 🙂
BTW, have you watched this video of Nagarjuna work out – pretty impressive for a 60 year old.
https://www.bollywoodlife.com/south-gossip/manmadhudu-2-akkineni-nagarjuna-shares-an-inspiring-workout-video-from-the-sets-in-portugal/
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I am also not fully onboard with the futuristic,video game look & I am hoping the quick cuts is to show how much footage they have and give a sense of the world building & for justifying the delay,money spend. I liked the really sleek background score.Now unless the trailer and rest of the promotional material goes down the hill,I am sold on this. But then I had also liked stupid Rebel cos it had Prabhas walking in slow motion all the time.So really,just show me Prabhas & his voice.
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Exactly, letting Prabhas do his own dubbing for all the languages is the key to this movies success. I’m glad they realized it.
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Also,while we are trailers-what do you think of this?Who would have thought Ajith in Amitabh Bachan’s shoes!
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Didn’t he play the Amitabh cameo in English/Vinglish in the southern version? So there is precedent!
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Does Pink also have Amitabh beating a guy in the park, or they added it for Ajith’s fanboys?
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Pretty sure it’s for the fan boys. But then the last dialogue in the trailer is not coincidental. The fan wars in Tamil industry is truly abysmal. Ajith had written an open letter to disengage the fans from abusing,attacking rival actors. And seems like he is using every opportunity to say it again.
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Thanks for the last paragraph. I was about to comment the same – dubbing on his own adds more to the movie. I watched Telugu teaser earlier, but the Hindi one, I watched here only.
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Yeah Prabhas! Yeah Saaho! I hope it’s good. But if it isn’t, I’m with MKP. Any Prabhas is better than no Prabhas.
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