Salute is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language mystery thriller film, directed by Rosshan Andrrews and written by Bobby-Sanjay starring Dulquer Salmaan in the lead role as a cop. Produced by Dulquer Salmaan under his banner Wayfarer Films, the film has Aslam K. Purayil as the cinematographer while A. Sreekar Prasad handles the editing and Santhosh Narayanan was signed on to compose the original background score before being replaced by Jakes Bejoy.
The film was scheduled for a theatrical release on the occasion of Pongal in January 2022, but was indefinitely postponed later due to the rise of Omicron cases in India. Later, It was announced that the film would be skipping the theatrical release and decided for a direct-to-streaming release on SonyLIV.[citation needed] It was set to have the world premiere on 18 March 2022, but premiered a day early, on 17 March 2022.
SI Aravind Karunakaran (Dulquer Salmaan), who is in a long leave, is haunted by an old murder case him and his brother investigated and closed while he was in service by fabricating evidences. In a cinematic universe where facial composite’s are non-existent, the hero officer now gathers clues and new evidences, and only time will tell whether he is destined to crack the real story and the unsub behind the closed case.