Salute to be out on 5 languages; Release date announced

Dulquer Salmaan’s cop film ‘Salute’ is getting a direct OTT release on SonyLIV. It has been announced that the film will be releasing in five languages — Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada — on March 18.

The film produced by Dulquer’s Wayfarer Films was originally supposed to have its theatrical release on January 14. However, it didn’t materialise due to the spike in Covid, Omicron cases during that time.

Directed by Rosshan Andrrews, ‘Salute’ is touted to be a cop-investigative thriller. The film is scripted by Bobby-Sanjay. It has Dulquer playing the role of a police sub-Inspector named Aravind Karunakaran. This is the first time the actor is playing a full fledged police role in his career.

Bollywood actress Diana Penty of ‘Cocktail’ fame plays the female lead. Manoj K Jayan, Saniya Iyappan, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy, Alencier Ley Lopez, and Binu Pappu are essaying other prominent roles in it. Jakes Bejoy is handling the music department and veteran Sreekar Prasad is in charge of the editing.