Greetings Lord Venkatesha
Greetings Lord Tirumalesha
I greet you and bow to you
- Did I pay you? - Sure.
- Open your mouth. - Appa (Father)!
- Not that. - Which one is it?
- This one. - Oh. Is it?
- How much is that? - Ten rupees.
We're done, right?
- Shall we go? - Yes, Sir.
- Is it good? - Yes.
Good then.
[VEHICLE RAMS; PEOPLE SCREAMING]
[MUSIC BUILDS TENSION]
[HINDU CHANTS ECHOES IN THE VALLEY]
[BULLETS FIRE]
[PEOPLE SCREAM IN HORROR]
[BULLETS FIRE; MUSIC SWELLS]
[BULLET FIRES FROM PISTOL]
Except for Mr. Soorappa's family, evacuate everyone else.
- Head out. - Keep walking.
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
- What's happening? - Wait. Let me handle this.
Amarnath, what the heck is all of this?
I surrender to you, Lord. [DEVOTIONAL PHRASE]
Your batch mates Chalapthi, Ravindra, Ramesha and Bheemanna have all been murdered.
It is very serious.
The Chief Minister has ordered to provide you security cover.
Your family isnt going anywhere.
Send everyone out!
Right now! Out!
Move it, I say!
Soorappa, what is happening?
Soorappa?
Does that mean...?
He's already entered the city?
[MUSIC WITH HEAVY BEATS]
[BULLET FIRES]
[CLATTERING TOY DRUM]
[TRUNK OPENS; OBJECTS RATTLE]
[FIRE BLAZES LOUDLY]
[METAL CLATTERS]
[INTENSE BACKGROUND SCORE WITH VOCALS]
Isn't this the reason this is happening?
Isn't this why we live in fear?
[MACHETE BOUNCES OFF THE GROUND]
How many more heads must roll because of this?
What?! Heads?!
They were exchanging vows, and you've got them exchanging death wishes?!
He seems to be shitting his pants.
Why do we need to get involved?
A machete, barely weighing a few grams,
AY!
Don't brush this off as junk and mock it, my brother.
When the entire department was hanging its head in shame
This is the historical machete that helped us stand tall with our heads raised.
[SOUNDS OF METAL BEING FORGED]
So much for history!
As if this was in Kittur Rani Chennamma's brave hands
or hung on Sangolli Rayanna's sheath?
- To hell with his history - AYE!
History isn't only about stories from the past, moron!
Eye witness accounts too stand as history.
[CROWS ERUPTS]
Shedding rivers of blood in every single gully too, accounts for history.
[METAL CLANGS]
The heat from the blood he shed with this machete
Had managed to get the entire underworld of Bengaluru, sweating in terror.
In the heart of a man who never wished evil upon others,
a battle cry rose.
There once was a man who taught the underworld
its own craft and showed them his dominion.
This is the tale of a man who twirled his mustache,
standing tall over the mountain of corpses he had created!
Most stories end with a burial in the soil.
[WRESTLING GRUNTS]
But the story of Kalidasa was born from it.
[CROWD CHEERING]
What began as a form of exercise to prepare the body for combat
Evolved into fierce wrestling competitions.
[HEAVY SCUFFLING]
An art once meant to uphold the state's honor
Was twisted into a tool for his pride and selfish ambition.
The very house that once forged warriors for war,
became a breeding ground for underworld gangsters.
And he set out to etch his name into that dark legacy.
[MACHETES SWINGING, VICTIM SCREAMING]
Oil mafia, extortion, threats, betting on races.
Be it anything.
If a name other than his was making rounds
He would ensure they ran out of breath.
[MAN GRUNTS IN PAIN]
His name was
Deva.
[MEN CHEER FOR DEVA]
If he tightened his grip on his waist and called out for a duel
There wasn't a wrestler alive who didn't end up kissing the dust.
[GRUNTING AND BODIES SLAM]
BRAVO!
The moment his grip tightened on an opponent,
every wrestler around bowed their heads,
bent their knees and gave him a name worthy of legend.
Daak Deva.
[CROWD ERUPTS IN CELEBRATION]
In this decade-long tournament, this year's contenders include the
fierce lads from Mavalli, Srirampura, Kalasipalya, and Gopalpura
All ready to give their best game.
Dude, what's wrong with them?
[POLICE VEHICLES ARRIVE WITH SIRENS]
If we strike, we better do it with cyanide-laced machetes.
The stitches should make him rot from the inside out, until death takes him.
The source has been verified.
He needs to be chopped so thoroughly that the
post-mortem team should have nothing left to do.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
I don't care about the who, why, or where
But they shouldn't find an ounce of his meat to conduct his funeral.
- Tell me this, Sir. - Yeah?
Sure, it's important to plan and catch a runaway criminal.
But this dimwit's standing right in front of us!
Do we really need to go this far to get him?
This is a damn embarrassment to our department!
How long has it been since your transfer from Hubli to Bengaluru?
The day before. I've already reported to my senior.
No surprise you're talking rubbish.
What's rubbish about it?
He's nothing but a low-tier thug!
Is such complex planning necessary to grab him?
Grab the rowdy, shave his head, and parade him on a donkey across the city.
- Yeah. I mean it. - Sure. That's been done already.
For the sole reason that SI Kantaiah lodged a complaint against Deva
They shaved his head, and put a garland of slippers on him.
[PEPPY THEME MUSIC]
The entire department was humiliated.
Before the humiliation could fade, the department had hit a rut.
[JEEP FLUNG ASIDE]
After the incident, we did arrest Deva.
In ten minutes, Deva ripped the FIR apart and threw it in the writer's face.
Nobody knew a thing about his whereabouts and businesses.
But if he chose to come back on his own
Was there no one to object this injustice?
- Only one man ever stood against him. - Who was it, Sir?
The opposition party leader.
But Deva showed him the way.
The way away from life to death.
Light it on fire!
[DEVA'S MEN LAUGH MENACINGLY]
[PEPPY THEME MUSIC]
Our CM is a great man.
If the man had shut him down, wouldn't he stay away from this?
Who blames the blade smith for the mistake of a machete?
The man who sharpened the machete, was that very Chief Minister.
I asked you to strike fear into the opposition, and you set them on fire, Deva?
Gosh! The guardian has turned into the executioner!
That too, with the chaos-personifying monster as a shield.
If we let him be, he'll destroy everything.
Men like him shouldn't just be imprisoned.
One should storm through their doors and thrash them black and blue.
SIR! [IN UNISON]
[HEROIC MUSIC SWELLS]
Mr. Soorappa.
He's a trickster who can be seen but never caught.
How are you so sure that he'll fall into your trap?
[BLADE HITS, MAN GRUNTS IN PAIN]
If Kavi has confirmed his presence, he is definitely coming.
[BLADE HITS, MAN GRUNTS IN PAIN]
Man, what a beautiful death heust met, right?!
Sir, it's nearly impossible to enter the arena without getting noticed by Kavi.
Happy Birthday, Sir.
[MAN SCREAMS IN PAIN]
Stay alert!
Nothing should get in or out without our notice.
- Go! - Got it, Boss!
I very well know that.
I know he can grab a rat from its burrow and trap a tiger without a net
For having trusted you, your wife's turning a widow at such a young age.
What a beautiful death man! [IN TULU]
Only when the minute hand makes its move and signals the hour
will the mighty hour hand strike.
[HEROIC VILLAIN THEME BUILDS]
[CAMERA CLICKS]
DEVANNA! [IN UNISON]
[HEROIC VILLAIN THEME PLAYS]
Go ahead!
Is it even possible to make it past Kavi's impenetrable security and reach Deva?
[MULTIPLE FOOTSTEPS]
Beyond that
I have another plan, Sir.
Today's nail biting combat will be between the Cottonpete and Srirampura lads.
The warrior who will fight out the lads of Srirampura is none other than,
Daak Devanna!
Take this, Kavi!
The Boss is coming to raid you.
Raiding in with soil in his hands in the first round is Devanna.
[COMMENTATOR CONTINUES]
[DEVA] Kabbaddi! Kabbaddi! Kabbaddi!
He will win the raid. It's decided!
Kabaddi Kabaddi! Kabbaddi! Kabbaddi!
- Devanna did it! - KABADDI!
- Yayy! - That's the way my boy!
- AYE! - DON'T!
This is a game.
Let us play.
Come to me, my darling. [IN HINDI]
And now, Sriramapura's Sagaayi.
Let him come! Grab him!
Let him enter our damn lines.
Let him play! We'll see!
[METALLIC CLAWS SWOOSH]
Get hold of him!
You did it, Devanna!
HURRAH!
- Where's the photographer? - Boss!
Click this damn picture!
[HEROIC VILLAIN THEME PLAYS]
[DEVA] Kabbaddi! Kabbaddi! Kabbaddi!
[DEVA CONTINUES CHANTING KABADDI]
There you go!
Kabaddi!
You mongrel!
[DEVA] Kabbaddi! Kabbaddi! Kabbaddi!
[DEVA CONTINUES SCREAMING KABADDI]
Kabaddi! Kabaddi! Kabaddi! Kabaddi!
[MEN SCREAM; DEVA CONTINUES CHANTING]
[DEVA] Kabbaddi! Kabbaddi! Kabbaddi!
[KAVI CHEERS, DEVA ROARS IN VICTORY]
[CHAOS ENSUES]
Sir, there's no need to call for a curfew.
The sound of his death would have silenced the entire city of Bengaluru.
SIR!
What is it?
- SIR! - What's wrong, man?
Sir, he's dead.
- Yes! - Let's hurry up!
The department can now breathe easy.
Sir, you don't have to worry.
We'll offer his head on a platter to you.
I'm here to lodge a complaint, Sir.
Write the heck down!
The head has been found.
Not the corpse.
Will you find the missing body for this head?!
To finish me off, you've hired every machete-brandishing thug in town.
If I decide to stand with a machete in my hand
Every crematorium in town will be working overtime.
Got it?!
GOSH!
Swami, he really is a monster!
While the entire city saw him as a monster,
there lived a madman who worshipped him like a god,
his most obsessed devotee.
What do you mean?!
[BUSTLING MARKET SOUNDS]
Like Hanumantha who was devoted to Lord Rama?
Much beyond that, my brother!
Which lineage do you call low, O lunatic?
And which religion do you deem supreme?
Hey! Kali's here. Move everything inside!
For all men take birth and die, how can there be high or low among them?
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Why do you stir up dust every time you arrive?
This is how it shall be from now on!
Applying the Tilaka won't guarantee you the heavens
- Why are you late man? - What happened on the way was...
- Never mind. Tell me in the evening. - Sure, brother!
Applying the Tilaka won't guarantee you the heavens
Applying the Vibhooti, won't guarantee you the Lord's abode
- Brother, here's your milk! - Hurry up!
Anna, pull up my pants.
Damn, I'm done doing this everyday.
Anna, life is all about helping the fallen up.
Why feel bad for it?
- And why are you late today? - Anna, what happened today was
- Never mind. - If you say so, Anna.
Oy! Toothpick!
Get up! Wait, I'll get you.
Jai Anjaneya! [HAIL ANJANEYA]
Why the heck are you sitting on Devanna's chair?!
Get your bum moving!
All you ever do is clean and wipe!
He never shows up, you never stop scrubbing!
Some day, I shall win the silver mace.
Yeah, right. We'll see about that.
That day, you'll make me sit on the chair.
Do your squats, toothpick!
AYE! FIGHT!
To pick the opponent and throw the opponent down is called a Kalavarjung (Body slam).
Dude, this guy's a smartass!
That's like it!
To sneak up from behind, grab someone tightly
by the waist, and slam them down with force.
That is called a Ukhaad (Body slam).
Listen to this!
To slam your opponent on the sand is to Daak the opponent.
Ek Lang (One-rope wrestling). Dhobi Shot (Shoulder-throw).
Kokkre (The crane move). Savaari (The body weight move).
There are many such Bheemasena's grip moves.
I'll teach them in time. Now get to practice.
Looks like you guys are newbies to the Garadi (Arena), eh?
Listen carefully!
Wrestling isn't about killing your opponent
it's about tactfully defeating them.
To us, this clay is God and God lies in this clay.
Wrestling isn't rowdyism.
It's Garadi-ism.
Go on.
Now that you've bowed down to Lord Anjaneya,
time to do 5000 squats and 1000 push-ups.
The old man will tell you the same things.
Like a broken old record.
They asked me my name.
Told them I'm Kalidasa. Let me carry on.
Stop right there!
You shapeshifter!
There's a saying that a dog that starts talking will be dealt with a stick.
How about getting on to the soil and showing a move?
Yeah, right! I know what you're doing!
Make me wrestle and take away my onlyob that pays.
If I was paid in time, why would I be sweeping this arena?
- Kali! Let me tell you this. - Yeah?
This clay is God.
Even God has a donation box in front of him, doesn't he Ustaad (Maestro)?
Lord Maadesha!
No matter what it is, somehow it always ends with money!
For all the service I've done for this Garadi
my picture should have been in the newspaper.
I would have.
But you won't be able to read it, can you, illiterate?
- You're right! - Maestro!
He can hear a radio announcement.
Who the heck is talking to me in this tone?
Chintu, it's you?!
- Isn't he that guy? - Your brother is asking for you.
Your brother died two years ago.
Why is he asking for you now?
Not his brother. Your brother.
His brother?! [IN UNISON]
They haven't spoken in years!
- Listen carefully! - Dude, is it my brother?!
Yes. Your brother's the one calling.
Is he really asking for me?
He really is asking for you!
Did he really go, "Kali! Kali!"?
Either go to him or let it be!
He's been waiting for you.
Ustaad!
My brother's asking for me!
[CELEBRATORY CRIES]
My brother asked for me!
Hey! Move aside! Make way!
This cycle got no bell, no brakes.
If I hit, you can't press a case. My brother's calling!
Watch where you're going!
I'll watch you later.
My brother's calling!
- What happened, Kali? - My brother's calling!
My brother finally asked for me!
Watch where you're going!
I told you! Didn't I?!
Sooner or later, my brother would definitely ask for me. I'd told you!
- Kenda! Radio! Vade! - Hi.
Copper Ladle! Akka!
He never asked for me all these years, yet if he's asked for me today.
Maybe somebody's finally told him that education isn't everything.
No wonder he's asking for me!
Sister, I'll go in aiffy, and be back in a whiffy!
What an uneducated brute!
- If only he'd been to school. - Not all over again!
Father who named me Dharma, should've named him the opposite.
How many times do I repeat myself?
Nobody should use my scooter!
Not only was it taken away without my permission and punctured
He towed it back and is now hiding behind it.
The saying is for such people.
'You can never straighten a dog's tail!'
You won't find four letters on that chest of his.
Really?
But he won't stop doing such stupid things.
- Where's my bag? - Where is it?
- Anna, it's inside - Dear, it is inside
Will you walk around with half a plait done? Sit down!
- Sit down! - Oy! Where's the bag?
You donkey faced moron!
Everyday we've to get screwed because of you!
Keep cursing! Louder!
A guy like you and a home will come crashing down!
If a teacher who's supposed to teach children is late to school
won't the kids laugh at him, you dimwit?
The elders weren't wrong.
The listener's deaf and the speaker's dumb.
All this shouting has aged me faster, but none of you have changed a bit.
Looks like my feet will have to take me to school.
Come on, brother. Why do you have to walk?
Isn't your great brother right here?
Mister! What are you staring at?
Take out your cycle and take him right away!
- You want me to? - Of course.
- Really?! - Yes. Really! Now go!
[MALE VOCALS BEGIN]
Traversed the earth and sky
Trekked across the seven mountains
Yet I have never seen anyone like you
Who are they?
Who are these great men?
May the evil eyes of crows and owls
The evil eyes of onlookers
Never fall upon you
Who are they?
Who are these great men?
Aren't you narrowing the funnel a little too much?
It's all a business!
Dharmanna!
- He's the watchman, dude! - Not a watchman! I'm the postman!
Sure. But why are you shouting?
Now sign here.
A sign?! Manu!
Open up!
Get the print.
Press!
- You can go. - You fools!
Son, why is he blatantly abusing us?!
Watch me read this!
[UTTERS GIBBERISH]
[KALI STARTS TO WEEP]
- Kali! What's wrong? - Sister!
Kali, what happened?
Why are you all wailing?! What's wrong?!
What happened, Kali?
[EVERYBODY WAIL TOGETHER]
You dimwit! This is brother's touring order!
- Take it! - It's only a touring order!
Good Lord! He's going away for a tour!
Grandpa!
[RAMS HEAD AGAINST THE BELL]
I'm not doing this for nothing.
You have to sing praises about me to my brother!
Now, sing praises!
- What?! - Look what you've done!
There's blood!
Children born of the same mother
Yet they divide her among themselves
They grow up under the same roof
But build walls between each other only to die apart
Quit strutting your egos
Don't mock those who fall
One should learn to be humble and respectful
Humility and respect must be learned
Traversed the earth and sky
Trekked across the seven mountains
Yet I have never seen anyone like you
Who are they?
Who are these great men?
These brothers are a pair of oxen
They must plow the fields of life together
You are born together only once
We must learn to live together
One should learn to live like them
Don't envy them or cast your evil eyes
Such men are needed for this earth
Sire, such men are needed for this earth to turn
Traversed the earth and sky
Trekked across the seven mountains
Yet I have never seen anyone like you
Who are they?
Who are these great men?
WE WANTUSTICE! [IN UNISON]
[PROTESTERS CLAMOUR]
We wantustice!
Sir, they've been protesting since a week.
WE WANTUSTICE!
- Why don't you solve their problem? - Why should I?
When a machine can do theob of twenty men
Why do I need these people, man?
How do we solve this, Sir?
Officer, give the firing orders.
Two corpses are all it will take for them to run away.
Everyone, listen. [MIC FEEDBACK]
Your protests have been going on for a week.
But your demands are impossible.
Everybody, leave this place.
Or else, strict action will be taken against every one of you.
There will be a lathi charge.
All these years we've toiled for you and you'll kill us?
Being the CM's son-in-law doesn't mean you can act this arrogant.
Come try us!
[GLASS SHATTERS; MAN SCREAMS]
- CHARGE! - Everyone, barge in!
Don't give up! Fight back!
[COMMOTION ENSUES]
When the CM is backing the goons, which cop will dare to
walk up to his doorstep and fight against his son-in-law?
While those within the system were fighting for their dues
there stood someone who belonged neither inside nor outside of it.
To break down the door and ask the real questions, came a man.
A real man!
[GATE SHATTERS; CAR RACES IN]
Oy! Annayyappa is here.
You've to give usustice!
Anna, look how they're exploiting us.
Look how they've beaten us up!
- Annayya, you're our God. - Hey, Annayyappa!
The power's in our hands.
We're sitting on the throne.
You belong down there.
Don't forget that!
- Look at his arrogance! - You've to help us now!
Hey! Move the car!
[VEHICLES PULL UP, BRAKES SQUEAL]
You!
Quit sitting on the top and bossing around!
Go, ask your CM!
He'll tell you what Annayyappa is capable of!
Mighty warriors who warred for the throne, didn't make it past the Kurukshetra war!
You're a nothing.
I'll give you three days' time.
If you don't fix the lives of all these men
Poof!
[CROWD CHEERS INOY]
Girija, stop getting drenched! Go inside!
Get inside now!
Keep my watch.
- Hand me the branch! - Please be careful.
- Sir, please be careful. - I'll manage. Go inside!
Teacher, the gap is over here.
Sir, please be careful.
Quiet everyone. I'm doing it.
[EMOTIONAL MUSIC BUILDS]
Everybody get inside.
Move to the corner.
- Come to this side, my child. - Teacher...
My book got drenched.
Am I not here for you?
Don't worry. I'll get you a new book.
What if it rains tomorrow?
Will get us new ones tomorrow too?
[EMOTIONAL MUSIC SOARS]
Hand it over here. [IN TELUGU]
Wait!
- Master? - Yeah?
The Grand Master!
Good Lord! Why did he come here?!
Handle them!
Dear Lord, I'm in trouble!
Everybody sit down!
Take all these garlands away!
The teacher's on the way!
- Sir, the garland. - Wear it yourself man!
Please sweep the floors!
Namaskara, did you have your lunch?
If there's no shirt on my body, this teacher gets uncomfortable.
- Kambi! - Sir?
In the name of discipline, this teacher always has something to complain about.
Make sure everything's alright.
There's nothing he can complain about you today.
Dammit! Watch where you're going!
What's the matter, Dharma?
Look down and you'll see it.
- Why didn't you drop a hint? - Sir, the drop zone was out of range.
Useless!
You made me a teacher and handed over the school's responsibility.
I've done my best.
But I'm done, Master.
The roof's broken.
Water drips on the students.
Told your son a thousand times.
This is our old school. Fix it, please!
He still won't lift a finger.
Even if his panche (dhoti) drops, all he does is drop punches.
Every time he's hear, I've got hear the sermons!
I've filed petitions one after the other.
But he doesn't move at all!
Man, you make your demands
What can I do?
So much for being the MLA!
Dude, I'm the opposition MLA.
He doesn't understand politics.
As if you know.
Dharma, no matter how noble our demands are.
They see us as their enemies.
- All he makes are excuses. - Him and his excuses!
- Dharma! - What?
The day we take over, you'll see what we are capable of.
All you politicians do is snap fingers and thump their thighs!
But will never do any work.
Oh God!
- Good this happened! - I'm sorry, Sir.
You're fine. Go.
The tea was hot! Your heartless brute!
At least he got to shut you up.
Dharma, wear my shirt.
It's a bit loose for you. But manage for now.
Dude, what is that?
Are you still living in her memories?
SATYA
Get married. I'll find you a bride.
- Let that be. - Look at you all coy.
My sister is set to get married and you're talking about mine.
- Let's go. - Come on.
Isn't she my sister too?
I'm not worried about her.
I'm only worried about my brother.
He doesn't listen to me at all.
- ust like you. - How?
A blockhead!
[ROMANTIC THEME PLAYS]
Son, what's this fragrance?
Manages to overwhelm the kerosene smell too.
Check that out!
How do you find her?
Dude, where is this high-voltage battery from?
- Hitting me right in the eye. - Same here.
Look at you strutting as if yours is the longest plait in town, you Rapunzel!
If you think yours is the longest, take it out and strut it around town, you moron!
Arguing with you is the same as laying your head on a railway track!
Wait, let me slash him!
Mane, my battery's dead.
Feel free to connect to her.
Come at me! I'll smash your face into a porridge!
Your words are so sharp! People call you 'Machete Lakshmi'.
Look how the market's staring at us.
Let them. They know it too.
The best stuff isn't in their shops.
It's out in the streets.
Quit spilling!
What brings you here? Didn't your mother come by?
Does it hurt you if I come by? Move you bum aside!
Screw you!
Your husband's life will be full-time struggle.
Don't worry. I won't send him to you.
My God!
- Pour some. - How much?
Three liters and some.
Can't your tongue say 3.5 liters?
Is your brain too weak to understand it?
- Stop it! - Look at his audacity!
MY GOD!
How dare you cheat Machete Lakshmi?!
Looks like we got caught.
You've squashed the barrel's ass and are skipping a quarter liter?
- He's on his own now! - Enough!
We've squashed our bums!
Did we squash yours?!
You thief!
How dare you?!
Hand me the damn machete!
I'll stab him right here!
SISTER!
We fall at your feet! Let us go! [IN UNISON]
Push the meter more and he'll conk off!
I beg you! Please move your feet!
- Come on now. - Enough! Move your hands!
Move!
Madam, if you come aside, we'll cut a deal and make it happen?!
What the hell do you mean by that?!
Come with me, I'll tell you.
- LET GO! - Madam, madam!
Madam, Madam! Get to the point!
- Why create a scene right here? - Fine.
You look like a harmless tot anyways!
Yes, everybody in town says the same thing.
Madam!
- Can I tell you something? - Speak up!
You're a direct competitor to a sandalwood's fragrance.
- You smell so good! - My my!
I can't handle compliments.
I feel very shy!
MUAH!
- Enough. This evening - This evening?!
What?!
- That's it! - You want me to what?!
I'm the owner of a kerosene shop!
Dude, look at this woman's audacity!
Want to see how audacious I can get?
Shall I get a crowd to gather, cause a ruckus and set your shop on fire?!
Madam, I'll do as you wish.
['KALLETIGINTA' FROM RAJA NANNA RAJA]
What are you still doing here?
Shouldn't you be in the market to buy the meat?!
Quit shouting!
This mirror needs to be thrown out!
Always admiring herself, you minx!
If you keep screaming your lungs out, I'll rip your wind-pipe apart!
The meat is coming. Go and prepare the spices!
Yeah, right. Like the meat has legs to walk home!
If I trust you, I'm a goner.
God knows under what stars she was born.
- I'll buy the meat and handle it myself. - Woman!
Is this Machete Lakshmi, the tomboy's house?
My boy, my husband died years ago. Leave.
You didn't get me.
I'm asking if this is Machete Lakshmi, the tomboy's house?
Yeah, right.
I'm already leading a life washing vessels of the people in the town.
Where will I get alms for you?!
NO, WOMAN!
Is this Machete Lakshmi, the tomboy's house?
- Oy! 100ml! - Sister!
I'm not the deaf one. My mother is.
Is she deaf? I bow to her feet.
Who is this guy?!
He's my sidekick, Savitri.
- What?! - Whoa! He got the meat?
- What is she saying? - Why are you late, kiddo?!
The sheep took a while to go under the knife.
Maybe it was scared, what could I have done?
Comedy?!
- Madam, I swear on you! - Get lost!
- Where are theasmine flowers? - Madam!
Flower lady Shanthakka kept pestering me
Asking if it was for my fiance or for my keep.
Without knowing what to answer, I felt shy and ran away from there.
Girl, where's the coriander?!
Go ahead. Bring it, kiddo.
Oh yeah. I'll go right away.
Hey! Are you making me buy you coriander?
- Go inside the kitchen, woman! - How dare you?!
Shall I get a crowd to gather, cause a ruckus and set your shop on fire?!
Whoa! What's this?
- The hole's getting smaller! - I feel the same way after she kicked me!
Does she think of me as a drum?!
She gives me a rap on the head every time she sees me!
Son, you got away with a rap or two.
You should hear about my plight.
She makes me do errands for her.
If we save four aana per liter
we would have more money to watch cinema.
That's why, I altered the funnel a bit.
Kali!
We have kerosene.
But I'm not giving it to you! Walk away!
Son, scold her and send her away!
Get lost!
Ay! Madam's asking for you!
- Is Madam here?! - Dude, don't!
Go tell your madam that my boss is calling her here.
I'm the boss! Yes!
Lakshmi, he's calling you over!
- Kiddo! - Son!
- She's calling you a kid?! - Me?
Not him! You!
You meant me? Hold on. Let me come!
Son, don't.
Bend over and they'll have fun with you!
Be daring! Show some spine!
Nope! I'm not coming!
Is that so?
I can't and I won't!
What do you think of me?!
Really?
How dare you oppress men?!
People who kill get away with nothing, and I need to
deal with this torture for scamming 100 ml off you?
Do what you can, you nasty women!
What are you staring at? You phony woman!
You walk away from there, you wannabe!
Son, you saw them?!
- Our bottoms areust fine! - Yeah!
From now on, it's all pop lock boom!
Brother!
Have you heard of school teacher, Dharmanna?!
- Of course, I do. - My brother?!
Son, I better hide my face in here!
What do I even tell about him?
Someone stole a chalk, so he stripped him
off his shorts and thrashed him across town.
If he finds out his own brother's cheating the entire town
I wonder what hell strip and where hell beat him.
You never know.
God, I can't witness this with my eyes! Nope!
Madame, in this scorching heat, how will you go till that school?
- I'll take the horse chariot. - Sure, you will.
- Won't the horse suffer? - Will it?
Consider a deal and we'll cut one for the better?
- Really? - As you wish!
Son, I got the tickets!
Girl, look at him donning the suit and a gun.
That's how a hero should look like!
He looks exactly like me.
I've seen the movie so many times.
Muah! He'll feel the weight of my gaze.
Criminal, I know it's you.
Madam, you recognised me?!
What is this trashy costume?
Trashy?!
Wearing boots and donning shades
You think the kerosene stench will leave you?!
How dare you call it stench?
I'm theames Bond of my town!
- I don't have a gun, that's all. - You don't have one?!
[PEOPLE SNICKER]
Enough, Madam.
You findoy in mocking me!
There you go. Tickets.
Fine. But where are the flowers?
[TRILLING SHOUTS]
Madam, what do I even tell you?
Flower lady Shanthakka's husband conked off in the morning.
Every ounce of flower in the village has been thrown on to his chest!
Say yes and I'll get that
- Battery - Yes?!
Madam's feeling bad about it.
- Comedy? - Madam?
Tch!
Even if there's no jasmine on your hair,
You really are a direct competitor to a sandalwood's fragrance.
- You smell so good! - My my!
I can't handle compliments.
I feel very shy!
Muah!
Madam, shall I wait by the gate?!
Go and get some peanuts!
- I've seen such duffers all my life! - Peanuts?!
[BIKES SWARM IN]
Son!
- Boss, Namaskara! - Move aside, moron!
- Boss, Namaskara. - Keep walking!
I'm your fan, Kali.
[GENTLE RETRO LOVE MUSIC]
Rain.
Tell me, Deva.
Did we have these many men with us on our first night together?
Nope.
Sorry.
[WHISTLING SOUNDS]
Javari! Hit it!
Not me. Blow whistles!
- Moron! Move aside! - Shut it!
Sister, did the Hero enter already?
Watch him. The hero's coming.
Man, Iust can't get over him!
Dude, look at Devanna's aura!
Look at him!
He's a King even without a crown on his head!
I'll go around telling the town that I saw a movie with Devanna.
What an aura!
Son!
From now on, it's all pop lock boom!
Look at this idiot!
He's sitting here as if we won't know when the interval hits.
Look at him, devouring you with his eyes!
Muah!
Why does that bother you?
Look over there!ames bond!
[DEVA AND SATYAVATI GASP IN SHOCK]
Oy!
[DEVA GROANS; SATYVATI GASPS]
[COMMOTION ENSUES]
Boss!
Kavi!
Let's not get involved!
[EXPLOSIONS FOLLOW]
Son!
Javari, move away!
Something's wrong inside. Let's go.
Are you okay, Son?
Deva!
- Sonny, don't. - Let me go!
Boss!
Sister!
Everybody's running, let's go!
- Sister, do this! - Sonny!
Do it to him! Now!
Eras were destroyed
By the death of the devils!
But... This era
Begins with this devil
Come at us now, morons!
Kavi!
Move aside! Madam!
Don't spare these sons of morons who have hurt my Deva!
Watch us, Sister!
- Close the gates! - Close them!
Chop them down, Deva!
[ROUSING MUSIC BUILDS]
Dude, don't do it!
Boss!
Butcher them!
[KALI WHISTLES]
[ROUSING MUSIC SOARS]
[HEAVY SLASHES, MEN SCREAM]
Hey!
Know how to wield a machete?!
I'm talking to you!
[WOMEN GASP IN SHOCK]
HEY!
[METAL SLICES THROUGH WATER]
Hunt them all down to their end!
None of them should get away alive!
Before their warm blood mixes in the cold water
Find out who the attackers were!
Leave nothing behind for their last rites, Kavi.
AY!
I hope you got it!
[WATER GUSHES OFF SHEET]
Deva, who always spilled others' blood
For the first time, had given his own.
[MEN CHEER IN UNISON]
The blood running through Kali's veins
Carried Dhak Deva's blood too.
Lakshmi, hurry up.
- I'm on it. Hold on. - You're taking too long.
If she's asked me to bring an umbrella today, for yesterday's rain.
What a scamster she is!
Let me keep it. I told you, right?
Why take the trouble?
Move aside!
- Why do these two act like monkeys? - Suit yourself.
What?! Sonny?
Everyone's coming out.
I can't spot her.
Let me go in aiffy, and be back in a whiffy!
- Sonny, let's not. - Why not?
Sister, where's Machete Lakshmi?
- In there. - Is it?
Where? I don't see her.
Madam!
Madam Lakshmi.
[PLAYFUL EXCLAMATIONS]
Ouch!
Sonny, let's no do the pose.
Get down. she's almost here.
Mr. Dumbo!
What's up, Bimbo?!
How dare you call me a Bimbo?!
I will say it! What will you do?!
I can't watch her stomp your chest!
You dimwit!
Shall I get a crowd to gather, cause a ruckus and set your shop on fire?!
To hell with what you'll do.
Watch me gather a crowd now.
I'll get Venkateshanna and tell him the truth.
I'll show him your dance of the deception!
Whoa! What happened now? Sonny, come here.
They're perfume thieves.
From now on, it's all pop lock boom!
Oy! Venkateshanna!
Let's go. They're calling you.
Yeah, right.
Hey!
Sonny, our Venkateshanna
Caught a guy who stole two incense sticks
stripped him of his shorts and whacked him hard!
If they find out that they stole the essence liquid
I wonder what hell strip and where hell beat them.
After that, she can do her seductive moves
[MOCKING EXCLAMATION NOISES]
I can't bear to see these atrocities.
Close my damn eyes!
- Sonny, let's get this news everywhere. - Sure. Let us!
Oy! Venkateshanna!
- Come this side. - I won't spare you.
Venkateshanna, let me tell you everything.
Sir!
- Sir?! - Yes.
- Don't shout. - I won't.
Yeah. Why tell Venkateshanna about such puny matters?
- Why don't we cut a deal ourselves? - I know, right?
Yeah.
So, we'll do as I say, okay?
Your wish is my command!
Hurry up! Quit swaying!
- I'm walking right behind you. - Yeah, right.
Give me the basket. Give me the lunch box.
Stick the banana leaves in my armpit.
- Do I look good? - Enchantress!
Watch it before you beat it!
My dear!
Why's he ignoring me?
I'm wearing a saree like you wanted me to.
I have applied the Vermilion too.
I've even got the Naati Koli Saaru ready.
Sonny, check if everything is in place.
- Vermilion? - Applied it.
- Saree? - Wearing it.
- The Naati Koli Saaru? - It's all there!
Move aside.
Sonny, keep the other chick out there
and send only the good-for-nothing in here.
Sonny, she's hanging on every word.
You said she's not for you, but now it seems you're making her yours.
What did I hear about 'not being the one for you'?
My battery boy says -
"She's single anyways. Why don't you make her yours?"
- Yours?! - Yeah.
That's why I told him the perfume and kerosene don't go hand in hand.
Frigging hell!
You.. and I?! As a pair?!
Do you even know what a reputable family we belong to?!
To hell with your stupid family!
Mother's deaf, daughter's rough.
The moment she opens her mouth, the whole town comes crashing.
Motormouth!
Didn't I tell you, Sonny? This one's not for me!
As if I was brandishing my teeth, hoping to get a Greek God like you!
I told this girl!
If I'd created a scene on that day and taught him
a lesson, I wouldn't be in this situation today!
Get lost, you kerosene thief!
What?! Kerosene thief?! You're the essence thief!
How will she even be my pair?
Get lost! You kerosene thief! Hey!
He looks like a thief to me!
Careful! He might pick you up and take you away!
My name is KD
Think before you talk to me
I'm a brat, darling
Ask the town
Tell the clueless about me
I'm a local boy, have no doubt
This won't work out
You and me? Definitely won't work out
Oy! Oy Lakshmi!
Let's fall in love at Lalbagh
Wanna come?
Will you come this evening?
Let's tour the town, on my cycle?
Wanna come?
O' Lakshmi! Wanna come?
But did I ever chase you around, saying all this?
Did I ever stand outside your house like a stray dog?
Waiting for you?
You and me? Definitely won't work out
This won't work out
You and me? Definitely won't work out
Oy! Oy Lakshmi!
The streets are empty
Wanna come?
Wanna sneak in?
Let's play Mummy-Daddy
Wanna come?
No one's watching Wanna come?
Hey! Did I go around beating drums, calling you my love?
Did I ever say I can't find anyone else?
You and me? Definitely won't work out
This won't work out
You and me? Definitely won't work out
Hey girl!
What brings you here, Machete Lakshmi?
No matter how sharp the machete is, you need the right man to wield it.
Mister Pan, somebody's talking to you.
Not me. He meant you.
Me?! Who the hell was that?
- Kerosene for sale! - Oy! Kerosene!
Why are you acting all sticky like grease?!
What's the matter?
Actually, it'sust that, I...
Want to marry me?
- M.. Marriage?! - You won't, huh?
Then shut your trap and walk away!
You know I'm from the arena.
Yet you keep fighting me.
- Why? Are you scared? - Huh?!
- I asked if you're scared. - Hold this.
Yeah, right.
What does that even mean?
- Oy Savithri! - Savithri!
Who the hell is that? Oh no. That's your mother.
Who knows if she heard? Let me run.
A guy's come here seeking hand in marriage.
My hand?
Ask her to sit, and she'll lie down.
- Not you. Me. - Tell me the truth.
He wants my hand?
GOOD LORD! NOT YOU! ME!
Who the hell are you?!
Where is he? I don't see anyone.
- What? You don't see him. - Time to get you married.
He was right here!
[KIDS SCREAM INOY]
Tch! Tch!
- You coward! - Gosh!
Aren't you ashamed to be hiding there?
Nope.
Comes to the room, but sleeps on the floor.
- Are you scared? - Yes. I am.
But.. NOT AFRAID OF YOUR MOTHER.
Shush. I can hear perfectly fine.
I'm scared of my elder brother.
After the exams, he wants to get my elder sister married.
If he finds out that I'm hovering around you
He'll slipper me to pieces.
Oy! What are you staring at? Is this an act for you to enjoy?
Walk away, mongrel!
Walk away, mongrel. Or else, she'll hit you.
Why does your brother always scorn at you?
Of course he will. Because, I never got educated.
After dad passed away, if he took on all the responsibilities,
how could Iust stand by and watch?
My mother always told us.
"Two brothers are like a pair of oxen."
"Make sure you walk through life equally, darling."
So, I quit studies and started working.
Just because I never listened to him and got educated, he's stopped talking to me.
What can I do now?
Now tell me.
Was I wrong, Lakshmi?
Remember, when you become our family, you'll have to listen to my elder brother.
- Huh?! - AY! LAKSHMI!
This woman!
Always shows up when it'sust about time for a kiss.
[ROMANTIC THEME MUSIC]
A KISS?!
My my! Quit staring at me like that!
I feel very shy!
Muah!
This time, I'm winning the silver mace, Kali!
Grandma's thinking about the silk, while the granddaughter's dreaming of the weaver.
You're only worried about yourself.
You keep yapping about you, yourself and I.
Don't go around beating the drums.
The mace, is yours, okay? Keep squatting!
This time, I'm winning the silver mace, Kali!
Those who wish to be a wrestler, watch Prasadi and learn from him.
Keep winning, my son!
Learn from him.
Inust three years, he forged himself, pounded
his thighs, and claimed ten silver maces.
AYE KALI!
Ask him to arrange the clay and he buries me in it.
You are only good enough to keep blowing the gossip trumpet!
Oy! Toothpick, he means you.
Wait, I didn't mean him.
- I meant you! - Really?
Yes!
[VEHICLES PULL IN; HEROIC MUSIC PLAYS]
Maestro, Boss is here!
Hold on! Boss!
Maestro, it is Boss indeed.
Sir, please let me open the door!
Move aside!
- Boss, it's me. Your fan. - He's our boy!
- It was me at the theater. - Come with me, Kali.
- Looks like more wrestlers have come in. - Get lost!
Boss, he's great at single-leg stances!
The rest of them are newbies.
Whoa Deva!
You've finally decided to visit the Garadi after ages.
Of course, Maestro.
If I don't visit the Garadi often, these losers will act like they're the cool ones.
You're right about that.
If one isn't careful, even the thread around our waist turns into cobras.
But tell me this...
Do you still remember the moves of Garadi or have you forgotten them?
- What are you saying? - What nonsense, Maestro!
All these men need to stand in the arena to wrestle.
The place where boss stands is where an arena begins.
- Bravo! - You were saying, Maestro.
Your Prasadi inust three years has forged himself
pounded his thighs, and claimed ten silver maces.
Is he a bigger wrestler than our boss?
Get him to spar! Get him to duel!
- Get into the arena, Boss! - Kali, stop it!
- Boss, ust do it! - Kali, ust stop!
Blow the whistles!
[MEN WHISTLE & CHEER]
HURRAH!
Watch your game.
He's Daak Deva. He'll thump you hard!
Maestro, if boss doesn't finish the game in a single round
I'll forego my month's salary.
Finish him in a single round!
[INTENSE GRAPPLING SOUNDS]
Boss, throw your weight, harder!
Throw him behind! Do it!
Dammit!
Boss, drag him backwards!
That's more like it! Go on!
Keep going!
Grab him! Don't let him go!
Overpower him!
Throw him!
[CROWD CHEERS, THEN GROANS IN DISAPPOINTMENT]
- Dammit! - Dammit!
Storm!
Boss, topple him!
Don't lose the grip, Prasadi!
Don't let it go! Don't!
Boss, what are you doing?!
Dammit!
What say, Maestro?
How were my moves?
Kudos Deva!
After a long time, I saw a great duel of yours.
Quiet, Ustaad. This wasn't a great duel.
I thought boss would finish him in a single move.
- He struggled to get a grip over him. - Stop getting cocky!
- How dare you! - Come on, Kavi.
Why are you beating him?
He's a naive kid.
I might be naive. But I ain't no toddler.
I get everything.
Boss played it wrong. He's out of touch.
Want me to teach you about touch?
- Help me understand. - Kavi, listen to me.
Quit talking and go open your kerosene store.
Wait up, Maestro.
You think you know more than boss?
- What did you mean?! - Let me explain.
When the opponent bends his knees, you grab him by the waist
from behind, you swiftly move and throw him on his back.
Any great player would've lost instantly.
Am I not right, Ustaad?
- Are you a freaking wrestler? - Kavi, stop.
Like he's an expert.
Move it! Keep walking, you loafer!
Grabbing somebody from the waist is a move. Not this...
HEY!
Kali!
Huh?
Show me your move.
Boss? With me?
Yeah.
As you wish, Boss.
This guy will get a crematorium built in front of the Garadi.
Jai Bhajaranaga Bali. [ALL HAIL BHAJARANGA BALI]
Bless me, Boss.
I'm dueling for the first time.
[MUSIC BUILDS INTENSITY]
[KALI AND DEVA SPAR]
[CROWD GASPS IN SHOCK]
[MULTIPLE WEAPONS CLASHING, TENSE MUSIC]
HEY! [IN UNISON]
[DEVA] Don't!
This is what I meant.
This isust a game!
Maestro, this was all I was screaming about.
Get out!
- There's clay all over you. - Kavi, hold it.
Please bless me.
I said get out of here!
My pant tore!
So what?! Get out!
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
He adores you to the hilt!
He will die for you!
- Brother, Kali is here! - Namaskara, Kali!
What's up, Kali?
Looks like all the senior wrestlers are here!
Kali, we heard you toppled Deva.
It's really simple, brother.
I trapped his leg with mine from behind,
plucked him off the ground and plonked him hard!
His face got stuck to the clay!
You should've seen.
Everybody shat their pants!
- Mr. Kali, how about a photograph? - Whoa! A camera!
Dude, was he the guy who toppled Deva?
Yeah, dude. He's the one. [IN TAMIL]
Shivu, our Kali beat up Deva
- Really? - Yeah man.
What's your problem, Kali?
You're the talk of the town.
God, don't get me started.
It's really simple.
I trapped his leg with mine from behind,
plucked him off the ground and plonked him hard!
His face got stuck to the clay!
You should've been there.
Everybody shat their pants!
I've been telling everyone.
Oy! Bheemanna!
Keep drinking coconut water for free.
Is it cool enough?
Where's my kerosene money?
You've not paid my three rupees since three weeks.
Please pay up.
Don't make me come home for it.
Father-in-law, let's get Deva to contest
against Annayyappa in this election.
Cracking a rock isn't as easy as cracking a skull.
He's won the elections four times.
If he wins again, he'll become the CM candidate.
- But father-in-law... - Not to forget...
Word is that he lost against a kid in the Garadi.
- Sir! - Enough.
The entire city's talking about it.
Him winning against Annayyappa?
Nope.
Give him a ticket. I'll handle the rest.
I am like the fire!
I am like the wind!
In front of this duo...
In the front of us are cops...
Looks like she told the cops about the funnels!
RUN!
STOP!
[CYCLE RAMS INTO THEEEP]
I'm dead. He's crushed them!
- Crushed what? - The damn bell!
- Didn't hear it ring. - I meant down there!
Oh that.
Why do you look like you're in pain, Sir?
Sir!
To get to MLA Annayyappa's house, turn right, take the left,
enter the lane and right in the corner, you'll find it.
We're not here for the MLA.
We are here for you man.
- For me? - Our officer wants to meet you.
The officer wants to meet me?!
Let's go!
- Hey! - Sir!
- Is Sir asking for me? - Yes man!
Is he really asking for me?
Did he go, "Kali! Kali!"?
He was going 'Rally Rally' and wanted me to rally you across the streets!
Let's go!
- Park the cycle on the side. - Why did you bump into him?
- Walk away! - Sir, sorry.
Let's get going now.
- Sir, I won't come. - Why not?
Everybody's stopped working and are staring at me.
If this news reaches my brother, he'll slipper me!
- KALI! - Yeah?
Why are the cops here for you?
The Officer wants to have a chitchat with me and has sent hiseep.
Shiva! Shiva! Shiva!
Say it out loud, or else he'll go and complain to my brother.
- Yeah? - Yeah!
Officer wants to meet him. Let's go, dear.
Did you hear that?
Om Shivoham!
Did it hurt you a lot?
- Sir, how is this possible? - What now?
- Tch! Come closer. - Yeah?
I'll sit in the front, if I sit at the back, people will think I'm a criminal.
O' Guru, who knows what your game is
O' Shiva who knows what your game is
Shiva
O' Guru, who knows what your game is
O' Shiva who knows what your game is
Shiva
The big officer has sent a specialeep to have a chat with me!
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You are the Lord of the ten worlds
Do you even realise that?
This man here has no army yet he parades like a king
He rose before the sun ever showed its face
Before the sun rose he grew into a legend
To those strutting their egos he challenges them striking his thigh
Man, is now a legend
Look for yourself
O' Guru, who knows what your game is
O' Shiva who knows what your game is
Shiva
- Hey, Kali! - Oye!
Police?!
You thought the same, didn't you?!
The big officer...
Wants a chat with him...
So, he's sent a specialeep for me!
Really?
Those who ruled in arrogance never stayed in history's pages
Those who tried to uproot you, now lie buried deep below
You are nothing like them
No one stands like you
You are nothing like them
No one stands like you
Those who try to suck up to you
Push them aside and walk away
Man, is now a legend
Look for yourself
O' Guru, who knows what your game is
O' Guru, who even knows what your game is
O' Shiva who knows what your game is
Shiva
Shivoham!
You don't worry, Sir.
- I will... - Sir, Kali's here.
[TECHNO BEATS PLAYS]
What's the occasion for so many cops to gather?
[REMIX OF HAAVINA DWESHA PLAYS]
SIR! [MEN SALUTE IN UNISON]
Bheemanna, so you're behind all of this?
Just because you didn't want to pay, you complained to a senior officer?!
- I'll come home and pay you. - Yeah, right. You will.
Your pocket's always empty.
I'll pay you. Come with me.
Sir, he owes me three rupees and thirty paisa.
Whenever I ask, it's tomorrow or the day after,
or the week after, one day he asked me not to come at all.
It hurt me a lot. Tell me, what do I do?
So?
You made Deva bite the dust?
God, don't get me started.
It's really simple.
I trapped his leg with mine from behind,
plucked him off the ground and plonked him hard!
His face got stuck to the clay!
You should've been there.
- ust like you, everybody shat... - Hey!
Everybody got scared.
Finish him.
Exactly! I picked him up and finished my move on him!
Nope.
Kill him.
[INTENSE SCORE BUILDS]
I'll ensure no case will be filed against you.
[KALI MOANS IN SHOCK]
[TRILLING SHOUTS]
What is wrong with him?
It's like asking a beggar to save some money.
How can he ask me to do this?
With my sister's engagement due next week, if my brother finds out that I came
to a police station, he'll light a match on my body smeared with kerosene.
Sir, shall I put some sense into him?
Brother, you don't know Deva's true colours.
What?! Don't I know Devanna?
Please keep quiet!
Do you know what a wrestler my boss used to be?
He'sust out of touch, Sir.
Listen to me, Sir.
Please don't tell anyone about this.
If word gets out, you'll be in trouble.
- Really? - Yes.
Okay.
Please co-operate with me, Sir.
I'll figure out how to manage him.
Let me tell you something. You've got it wrong.
Devanna is a great man.
Enough please!
Don't blabber nonsense because we're listening.
Haven't I heard of Kali from Bhairava's case file?
Do you even know what a killer-man he was?!
Don't tell me about this good-for-nothing.
If you find out about Bhairava, you'll end up in shivers!
And you think you can tell me about Kali, who lives with him?
You've only read an once based on what's been written about Bhairava.
I'm telling you the story of looking him right in the eye.
AY!
No matter how much of a sadist one is
When the enemy dies, he leaves the corpse behind.
But not Bhairava.
He burns the corpse to ashes and applies those very ashes on his forehead!
[SOARING EPIC THEME]
Appa, how is Bhairava related to this Kali?
Blood relation.
But the blood wasn't flowing in his body.
Even before his blade tastes flesh
A thousand men stand ready to say it was their crime.
Every criminal, no matter how powerful, fears someone.
And that someone... can only be Bhairava.
When the mighty Bhairava himself was in Kashi
How could a mere kerosene seller like Kali in Bengaluru go against him?
What is the reason, Sir?
[TECHNO, VERSION OF 'KHALNAYAK' SONG]
[MONEY BUNDLES FALLING]
Welcome. Please sit.
Annayyappa, it's your turn to sit.
Because this time, I'm the one who'll be standing in the election.
For being the man who washed his hands in warm blood
They've now given me white clothes, to wipe it clean.
MISTER!
Who are you tell us not to contest in the elections?
And if third-rate gangsters like you start wearing the Gandhi cap.
What's left of the dignity in politics?
[MEN SCREAM IN UNISON] DEVA: AYE!
This isn't the underworld to shed blood and rule.
This is politics.
Instead of carving out your kingdom with blades in your fists.
Look at you laying them down, ust to ask for a title, Deva.
You're asking the peacemaker...
For a war, Annayyappa...
Mister Leader...
This feels like Ravana's standing in front of
Lord Rama, while setting a date for his death.
Sounds like your story. Doesn't it?
Your hollow threats won't even affect him.
Because, he's the 'Fearless man'.
My dear friend.
And I'm not a Hero...
I'm the Villain.
ALL HAIL DEVANNA! [IN UNISON]
You have to vote for Devanna! Make sure you do!
Check out our Devanna's influence.
Why are you impressed, Kavi?
Instead of it being Kavi's name, there's a rando called Kali who's making the news.
If he's planting his flag on a fortress you built
I swear that one day, he will stomp over you and grow beyond.
Try and understand.
[SINISTER MUSIC RISES]
Son, Devanna will definitely become a minister thanks to our publicity, right?
Definitely.
Come forward guys!
Oy! Wastrel!
Bring the kerosene to the ruins' street.
Brother, check out the queue out here.
Shall I come by in the evening?
- Who do you think asked for you? - Who did?
- Devanna.ust come. - What?!
- Is Devanna asking for me? - Yeah.
Brother, before you reach going vroom-vroom,
I'll zip-zap-zoom and get there.
- Hurry up. - I'll be there soon.
Hey crazy ones, try and recognize me [Arey Deewano from DON -1978]
Hey crazy ones, try and recognize me
Where have I come from, who am I?
Who am I?
Don! Don! Don! Don! Don!
Word is Boss asked for me.
- Where is he? - One hard smack on the face!
What's this monkey behaviour of yours?
Whoa! What's with the blood, brother?
Bugger off! Where's the Kerosene?
I'll get it. Wash your hands.
He is a naive guy.
But don't be fooled, he'll eat you alive.
- Brother, the kerosene's ready. - Now pour it on the paper.
Come on. Why does paper need kerosene?
Light a match and it'll all be up in fire.
Just pour it.
It'll burn without...
Just pour it! Dude won't stop babbling!
- Fine. I've got nothing to lose. - He got hit on the head, still clueless.
Brother, heaps of paper?
If only you'd sold this to the scrap dealer, you could've made some money.
Why are you burning them?
He's written bad things about Devanna.
Word shouldn't spread, right? So, I'm burning them.
What?! There are men capable of writing bad things about Devanna?!
If you'd told me this before, I would've burnt this without wasting time.
- So, what? Go ahead. - Watch me.
Watch me strike the match, and watch the fire burn it all to ashes!
Check out how good this kerosene is.
[PHOTOGRAPHER] KALI! SAVE ME!
GOD! NO!
Brother, he's a photographer.
Why are you silently watching?! Brother, he'll die.
Why are you all staring at him?
I've lit the fire by my own hands.
You're making me kill him!
Brother, I'll fall at your feet.
Please save him. He'll burn to ashes!
Look what he wrote.
'DAAK DEVA TOPPLED IN THE ARENA BY HIS OWN SERVANT'
[KALI GASPS]
Shouldn't he turn into ashes?
[KALI CONTINUES TO WHIMPER]
Kali is here.
He's Kali.
They live in the same house, yet the two brothers stand for different parties.
Your brother stabbed you in the back. [IN TELUGU]
Kali! What the hell is this?
You're the talk of the town.
We are all a family, yet you... Damn you!
Brother, why do I care about elections?
You've already won the elections four times.
Devanna, isn't a good man.
He is capable of going to any length to win this elections.
Don't get into this. Let Devanna win.
[SHARP SLAP, OBJECT CLATTERS]
Hey!
Who the hell is Deva?!
Who the heck is he?!
There are thousand ways to earn a livelihood.
He ignores them all.
Instead, there's a man who wields a machete,
sheds blood on the streets and hacks strangers without mercy.
And that man, a low-life gangster, is your inspiration?!
Mark my words!
One day, he'll kill us all and end up as a lone corpse on the streets.
Dharma, why are you brothers fighting for me?
Who the hell is my brother?!
I'm sheltering a poisonous cobra under my own roof.
[EMOTIONAL SCORE]
Do you have any idea how hard I've worked to raise you all right?
Ask Annayya! He'll tell you.
Men like you are the reason why they say -
Born as siblings, destined to become enemies.
Don't ever show me your face again!
Get out of this house!
Girl, do you know how people stare when you apply this essence?
- Hurry up. It's late already. - We'll be right behind you.
Hurry up!
You keep showing your big teeth to the town, but no one even looks.
You'reustealous. Let them look.
All these days, I would apply it for myself.
From today, it's for Kali.
Now move aside!
Dude, what's this fragrance?!
Her name's Machete Lakshmi.
The whole area smells amazing when she shows up.
Oy!
What a beautiful girl she is!
I'm talking, and you turn your bum and walk away?
Am I your wife to smile and come running when you call?
My my! Someone's in a mood.
- Will you change it for me? - AY!
- LET ME GO! - Walk away!
I thought your plait was long, but your tongue isust as long.
Want a taste of my long slipper as well?
Let her go, Kavi. Boss is here.
LAKSHMI!
You may go.
Lakshmi, welcome home
- Machete-Lakshmi welcome home. - Lakshmi.
The moment the fragrance hit my nose, I knew you were coming.
- Come with me! - What?! Where to?
Let me close the store. Hold on!
- Come! - Lakshmi! Everyone's looking.
- Tell me where to? - Come!
- Thrash that moron! - What?
Thrash? Whom are you talking about?
A while ago, Deva's men harassed her.
You expect them to tease Javari instead of you?
Good-looking girls get teased on the streets.
Why get worked up?
I'll meet Devanna tomorrow and ensure that every one of them gets screwed, okay?
Who the hell is Devanna?
- You managed to make him bite the dust... - Shush!
Somebody might hear us!
Thank god no one's around.
Oy! What are you even saying?!
Take back your words. They're influential people.
One shouldn't say such things about them.
We are the kind of people who pour sand on kerosene.
We don't light it on fire. Try and understand, Lakshmi.
It's fine if we never have to cross paths with them again.
You get what I'm saying?
- Listen Kali... - There's nothing left to listen to.
Please keep quiet! I beg you!
From tomorrow, I'll pick you up and drop you.
This must have been a mistake.
Stop applying the damn essence! Yuck!
Wait right here.
I'll tell him to shut the store.
She doesn't think before applying perfume.
That causes problems for others.
- And gets upset when I tell her. - Kali!
- Did you meet Devanna? - No. I haven't.
Cheluva!
If my brother finds out about it, he'll kill me.
Battery, lock the store by evening and give the keys to my sister.
I'll go. I hurt that poor girl.
Lakshmi!
Lakshmi, wait.. Ugh!
Lakshmi! [IN UNISON]
Why are you blocking the roads?!
Lakshmi!
You're mistaking my intentions.
- Lakshmi! - Venkatesha!
- Whatever it is, ust pay up. - I'll settle it all by tomorrow evening.
To hell with your evenings...
You'll get a beautiful death too.
- The scent from the streets is here. - How long to get the sticks?!
Hold up! She's always behind me!
- Wohoo! - She's the one. Kali's girl.
- Is she that moron's girl?! - Hurry up!
He's going around town telling that he toppled boss!
While this woman's out with her plaits and scent all over her.
What a useless couple they are!
Who's useless and who is actually useful. Go ask your brother!
He managed to topple him! You're no match to him!
Bugger off, moron!
You're the moron here!
Quit babbling!
I'll show you who is useless and who is useful!
- I beg you! - Please let her go!
[LAKSHMI CONTINUES TO SCREAM]
[DRAMATIC, SWELLING MUSIC]
[LAKSHMI CONTINUES TO SCREAM]
[SLICING SOUND]
- Shanthakka! - What's up, Kali?
- Shanthakka! - Yes?
Two double-arm length strings ofasmine buds!
Won't you ask me who it is for?
It's okay. Ask me. Don't feel shy.
- Kali? - Yeah?
You'd roam around town with your bum out and snot dripping.
Back then you never asked for a string.
Today you're asking for double that.
Don't you think I know?
- Who is it for? Tell me? - To the one you're marrying.
You know it all. No wonder you have three kids.
Take this. Good luck.
[MARKET CHAOS, THUNDER RUMBLES]
Whoa! I don't see anyone.
There's no one in the kitchen.
Why are you sitting all alone in the dark?
Lakshmi, you would wait by the door for me.
Are you still angry because of our fight?
Look. I've gotasmine flowers for you.
I've told Shanthakka, the flower lady that this is for my fiancee.
Let me put it in your hair.
DON'T TOUCH ME!
I told you, if not you, there is no one else for me
I had told the world
Lakshmi...
I had told the world you are my life
In sorrow, inoy and in death, I shall follow you
[DRAMATIC, SWELLING MUSIC]
You deserve this!
No matter how much I begged, they never let her go.
Forget it! Get water! There's fire over here!
Look at our plight!
This house had no man, yet I looked after her so delicately.
You brute! You're here to ruin what's left of my dignity!
That filthy scum didn't even consider her as a woman.
He pushed her to the ground, stomped her with his feet and almost slit her throat!
That moron!
It wasn't intentional! Let her go!
[LAKSHMI CONTINUES TO SCREAM]
The crow kept caw-cawing
With the crematorium calling out
Come, let's go.
- The crow kept caw-cawing. - Caw-caw!
Thus came the Master of Time down to Earth.
COME! LET'S GO!
To break bones and skulls
To rip through ribs and chests
To wear a garland made of windpipes
He is coming
COME!
Destroy that scoundrel!
Strike!
Charge and strike!
- Welcome, CM Sir! - Deva!
Sever them!
Sever their heads!
Come with me, Lakshmi!
What's up, Kali? You've come with your girl.
- Oy! Stop there! - Kali, let's go back!
Didn't I tell you to move away?!
Just come with me, Lakshmi.
Why did you hit me on the head?!
- Stop right there! - Don't you guys understand?!
Let's not do this! Let's go!
God! Leave him!
Let him go, please!
- You come with me, Lakshmi. - Kali, let it go!
- KALI! - Lakshmi, I'm with you!
Don't be scared!
Let us go away from here, Kali!
Where is Devanna?!
Kali, ust stop!
Let me go! Devanna!
- Brothers, please let him go! - BOSS!
- Brother, I beg you. - Come with me, Lakshmi.
- Let's go away, Kali! - I'm here. You'll be fine.
[COMMOTION ENSUES]
Come, Lakshmi. I'm with you!
Keep following me, Lakshmi!
Devanna!
Get lost!
Boss, listen to me.
Your men knew she was my fiancée, yet your men cut off her hair!
Who is he?
The same guy who toppled Deva in the arena.
[KALI] I'll convince him.
Boss, tell me.
If somebody had gone for Sathyakka's hair, would you have let them go?
- Answer me! - Kali, let's go.
Quiet, Lakshmi. Boss is a good man.
He'll scold them all. Tell me.
Only money won't win you elections, Deva.
You need a name.
And that name must strike fear into every heart.
His brother has teamed up with Annayyappa and is hatching plans against you.
And this guy?
He's entered your territory and is beating up your men.
Deva, feeling his force...
Looks like he's capable of toppling your throne.
Didn't I tell you that boss will definitely take my side?
Oy! Listen up!
She's the girl I'm going to marry.
Nobody should ever mess with her!
Boss, tell them.
I begged them all.
But nobody listened.
Please put some sense into them.
It doesn't seem like you're here to beg.
Seems like you're here to order around.
How dare you speak about beating me?
How dare you tell everyone that you beat me up?!
I didn't mean to...
I'll make sure the entire town watches me beating you up.
But, I won't be killing you here!
I'll kill you right amidst your people.
Because everybody should realise who Deva is.
I am Deva!
- EVERYONE! - YES BOSS? [IN UNISON]
Within the next 24 hours...
I want his whole family's chopped heads at my feet. Got it?!
YES BOSS! [IN UNISON]
- YOU! - Boss...
I need to witness the fear of death in your eyes.
Boss...
FEAR!
Boss, please don't do this.
You're mistaking me.
I really am scared.
Look in my eyes!
Boss, please look into my eyes.
I'm very scared!
Boss! Devanna!
Forgive me this one time, Devanna!
[LAKSHMI] Kali, stop right there!
Kali, I'm feeling very scared!
Kali!
[KALI WHIMPERS IN FEAR]
[DEVA] Within the next 24 hours...
I want his whole family's chopped heads at my feet. Got it?!
Kali, look at me.
Kali!
Kali, look at me!
It's all because of me, Kali!
I beg you! Please say something!
Kali, please! I beg you!
Please say something!
I am beyond scared, Kali!
[FORTUNE TELLER] The Roller bird is foretelling your destiny.
This isn't a city. This isn't a fair land. No humans remain here.
Destiny and time. Time and destiny.
Together, the future looks bleak.
Sathyakka! Please come out for a second!
Why are you screaming?!
Sister, nobody's letting us in.
It's me. Please let me in!
- Get back! - It's me, Kalidasa!
Remember?! The cinema?! Movie?!
It's me. The bottle!
- Give it to me! - Kali, don't.
Sister, it's me! The one with the bottle!
- Kali, why are you doing this? - I'll be fine. Calm down.
Boss will listen to Sister.
Let's explain ourselves to her.
Watch!
Sister, your men cut the hair of my fiancee.
Just because I asked if he'd let it slide if someone touched Sathyakka's hair...
Devanna lost his cool and has now vowed to kill my family in the next 24 hours.
I beg you. Please tell him not to.
That day, I saved your marriage.
Today, please save my family.
I've come here putting all my trust in you.
Didn't I tell you that sister's a good woman?
She'll scold Boss.
Listen to her.
Out of the twenty-four hours Deva gave you, two have already passed.
- Why are you still here? - Sister!
Throw them out!
Get out of here!
If you throw us out, who do we go to?!
You dimwit! I told you so!
I told you to kill him when you had the chance!
And now? Deva has laid his eyes on you!
He won't spare you.
Please don't say such things!
I beg you!
His sister's getting married anytime now.
You have to save his family, Sir.
- I'll fall at your feet. - Finish Dev...
When I say Deva's going to kill you, he won't be doing it personally.
He can come to you through anyone, any form he chooses to.
A passing lorry might run over you.
A dead man on the street might rip your chest out!
Notust that.
Your own neighbours might stab you!
Listen carefully!
I can't do this.
- Sir... - Keep going!
- Hey! - Sir, please?
You fool!
If you wish to live...
Take your family and leave this town!
That's your only way out.
- Please sir! - Go!
SIR!
[LAKSHMI CONTINUES TO WAIL]
Kali!
Watch where you're going!
UNCLE!
- Uncle is... - Saru...
Doesn't he know he's breathless?
- Ask him to speak up! - What is it?!
Uncle's in a critical condition.
- Serious as in? What's wrong? - What's wrong?
I don't know. He's been kept out of the house.
I got a trunk call from the village.
- We have to leave right away. - And how do we leave?!
Well.. You go ahead and pack the clothes.
I'll go and get the train tickets.
Sister, I've got the tickets!
I've got the tickets!
Look, it's right here!
You pack the clothes...
I've packed the clothes and kept them in the trunk.
Bring them down.
Let's go, dear. It's late.
Keep going. I'll follow.
Uncle...
He told us you're in a critical condition.
What?! Critical?
What is this Kali?
I'm fit as a fiddle.
Wonder whose call that was supposed to be.
Just check again.
I'd come to the town to watch Indira's speech.
I thought I'll pay you children a visit.
Good that you did! Please have lunch.
What are you staring at?
Take the damn bags inside!
Trusting this good-for-nothing will get us all killed.
- Must have been a mistake. - I'll go to the school.
He's alwaysoking around.
[UNCLE] Come in. Let's eat before leaving.
Idiots! You're smoking beedis right where kids are studying!
- Get down. Get out of here! - This teacher is annoying!
Who is this dimwit? Calling a cigarette a beedi?!
Master is here! Good Morning, Master!
Hey! Good Morning!
Wastrel, are you here to drop your brother?
- Brother! - By the way...
I heard your sister's on the way to write her exams?
Don't forget to invite me to your wedding.
Kali! What are you doing here?
Let's go home.
Dude, how can you leave me behind?!
Why do you care for the exams if your marriage has been fixed?
I told you already! Let's go home!
You came all the way for that?
You want money for the movie, don't you?
- Take it. - Sister!
I beg you. Let's go away!
This is my final exam. I'll write it and come back.
Listen to me! Sister!
What's up, Kali?
Your sister clearly knows that this is her final exam!
You still have twelve hours left of the twenty-four Devanna gave you.
- Dude! Run! - Your sister got out of school! Go!
[TENSE MUSIC]
- Sister! - Argh!
I've been watching you.
You've been hovering around elder brother.
I've told you to ask me if you need something.
Well...
What is it?
Promise me not to get scared after listening to my words.
Whoa!
I got scared. Just spit it out!
- Remember Devanna? - Who? Your Hero?
Yes. So, Lakshmi and I...
Is she the same Lakshmi you've been roaming around with?
Saru, please listen to what I have to say.
Just tell me!
Devanna's men cut my Lakshmi's hair.
I lost my cool and questioned Devanna if he would
let it slide if somebody touched his wife's hair.
Devanna lost it and has vowed to kill all of my family in the next twenty-four hours.
I'm now shit scared about what he'll do to us.
Please muster some courage and tell brother about this.
[SARU LAUGHS]
Kali, what movie have you been watching?
Saru, get me a glass of water.
Brother's asking for me.
You wait here and tell me the complete story.
- I'll be back. - Sister, listen to me.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[BIKES PULL IN]
I'm on my way. I won't be sparing anybody.
I'll finish them all!
[SOORAPPA] Your own neighbours might stab you!
Hey!
[AXE BREAKS WOOD]
Kali, won't you open your shop today?
I will, brother. I'm heading there.
[HEAVY BLADE SWOOSH]
[KALI PANTING]
Why do you look worried?
It's nothing. I'm leaving.
Brother, give it to me. Let me give it to her.
- Kali, what happened? - What's wrong man?
- It's nothing. - What an idiot!
Burn our arrogance and pride to ashes
This day's not yours. Your time's near.
The words of the Lord cannot be defied.
SALUTATIONS TO THE AUSPICIOUS ONE!
Nobody's here.
When every owl in the city has gone to sleep, why are you still wide awake?
- Girl, I'm talking to you. - Yes, Brother.
My Kannada teacher has asked me to write the meaning of this chant.
Do you know what it means?
These are the words of Lord Krishna to Arjuna, recorded in the Bhagavad Gita.
Hato va prapsyasi svargam jitva va bhokshyase mahim
Tasmad uttishtha Kaunteya yuddhaya kr%ta-nishchayah
Whenever righteousness declines
O' Bharata, and decay sets in
Hato va prapsyasi svargam
If slain in the war, you will obtain heaven.
It's a heroic death.
And unrighteousness rises
Jitva va bhokshyase mahim
If victorious you will enjoy the riches of the earth.
Tasmad uttishtha Kaunteya
Therefore, stand up, O' son of Kunti
Then I manifest myself
Be determined and go fight.
A true warrior is one who fears no enemy and faces them chest to chest.
History doesn't remember those who turned away in fear.
If you want your name etched in history, even when faced with Yama,
the lord of death, you must charge in and tear through his chest.
- But isn't war a wrong thing? - Wrong?
War is Dharma.
To protect our people, one has to fight.
[WALL LAMP FLICKERS AND SHORTS]
- Geetha, find the torch. - Brother?
Saru, place this on the front yard.
Lightning won't strike us.
Take the machete!
[MACHETE SWINGS, DROPS WITH A CLANG]
A man knows when a birth is about to occur.
But when he knows death is close...
Who dares to stop him?
Soorappa, will they kill him?
Instead, he will kill.
This time, Kali will storm and destroy them.
If slain in the war, you will obtain heaven
If victorious you will enjoy the riches of the earth
Therefore, O' son of Kunti, go fight the war
[BIKES PULL IN]
Man you've signed up for such a beautiful death.
KALI!
Tell me what your death wish is.
Should I kill you first?
Or right in front of your eyes...
Do we kill your family?
If slain in the war, you will obtain heaven
Charge!
If victorious you will enjoy the riches of the earth
Therefore, O' son of Kunti, go fight the war
[MACHETE SWISHES, FLESH CUT SOUND]
Strike!
Charge and strike!
[MACHETE SLICES]
Sever their heads!
No Guru rules the gangsters
The machete shows no mercy
Who is worse than sin itself?
Bloody hell! Who is worse than sin itself?
Listen everyone!
I'm wielding the machete for the first time.
If you only lose a hand or leg and still survive...
Tell your mothers I'm sorry!
Hanumantha had Rama's back
That's why Rama won Lanka
Paartha had Krishna behind him
That's why Kurukshetra was won
You've got no one, man
You are your own everything here
Who is worse than sin itself?
Bloody hell! Who is worse than sin itself?
Barge into his house!
Make sure you sever their heads!
NO!
[KALI FURIOUSLY SCREAMS]
- Dear, where's the toolbox? - It's right there.
No value for tears here
Let the striking machete shatter the target
Mother Earth waits with her mouth open to taste the warm blood
Win and you claim the throne
Lose and earn a heroic death
Who is worse than sin itself?
Bloody hell! Who is worse than sin itself?
Hey!
[MEN CHOKE AND GAG IN PAIN]
Where did this.. huh?!
[DHARMA WHIMPERS IN FEAR]
[BODY FALLS WITH A THUD]
Go inside! Get inside now!
[MEN SCREAM]
Brother!
[KALI FURIOUSLY SCREAMS]
Close your eyes! Close your eyes!
You'll get scared!
Close your damn eyes!
[KNIFE SLASHES; BLOOD SQUIRTS]
Kali!
- HEY! - HEY!
My brother never took me around on his shoulders.
He never helped me up or wiped my tears.
He never looked in my eyes and spoke.
Just because I didn't study, he stopped talking to me.
You forced a machete into my hand just to make him talk to me again.
[MACHETE HITS, BLOOD SPLATTER]
I dare not breathe in front of my brother.
And you dare raise a machete in front of him?
[KAVI AND KALI CLASH]
[FOLK SONG]
Deva!
[MEN SCREAM AT DHARMA]
HEY!
As much as my family means to my younger brother...
His life means just as much to me.
He'sust a kid.
He didn't mean those stupid things.
Please.
Let's leave it at that.
Uh-huh?
If you want, I'll leave this town with my whole family and never be seen again.
To let you goust because you asked...
Do you think I'm the tiger from the Punyakoti story?
To burn your family to ashes, here I stand as -
Bhasmasura!
Deva!
You sent a hundred men to kill the three of us.
He stood all alone and defeated all the men.
Make the mistake of hurting my family...
He'll ensure that there won't be anyone left to carry your corpse, Deva.
[ROUSING THEME BUILDS]
Kali!
[DEVA LAUGHS MENACINGLY]
[DEVA GRAPPLES; KALI WHIMPERS]
Hey Kali!
Weren't you complaining that your brother doesn't talk to you?
That he doesn't eat with you or hold hands while walking?
Don't you want any of that?
When you were being born, our father waited outside the house.
He's not here anymore.
But your brother's with you.
As a brother, he'll be waiting for you, Kali.
Your brother will be waiting.
He'll be waiting.
ARGH!
If not me, who the hell will be waiting for him?!
Fine. My brother will come back.
He'll return any moment now.
When I was young, I told him to work hard and study no matter what.
But what did he do?
He decided that his brother shouldn't suffer and instead he took it upon himself.
He never went to school.
I scolded him, beat him, threw him out of the house and had stopped talking to him.
Even after everything, he loves me more than his own life.
Today...
Today, to save me
He's put his life on the line.
BUT!
He will return.
He will return no matter what.
[DEVA GROANS]
[AGGRESSIVE SCREAMS]
[KALI CHARGES FURIOUSLY]
[MEN CHARGE IN ANGER]
You've got no one, man
[MACHETES CLANG ON GROUND]
You are your own everything here
Who is worse than sin itself?
[DEVA GROANS IN PAIN]
Bloody hell! Who is worse than sin itself?
[KALI SCREAMS IN PAIN]
[MEN PILE ON, GRUNTING]
Boss!
Your brother said you'll make sure there's no one left to carry my corpse.
Little did he know.
That his brother's standing right in front of the Lord of Death, Yama!
Please forgive me, Boss.
[MACHETE STRIKES, FLESH SQUELCHES]
- Don't doze off again. - I won't, Sir.
Officer will come. Stay alert.
[CONSTABLE YAWNS]
HEY!
CONTROL ROOM CALLING. IT'S AN EMERGENCY. STAY ON HIGH ALERT.
Sir...
- Kali... - Lakshmi!
Kali!
Sir...
What's wrong?
Kali...
The very soul Deva gave his blood to save...
The very soul ended filling up the streets with Deva's blood.
And none of us saw that coming.
Bloody hell! Who is worse than sin itself?
[ROUSING THEME MUSIC]
Kali...
You've got the severed head.
All because he shoved his head into my family's business.
Before the news spreads, leave this town.
Listen carefully! You never came here.
None of us saw you.
Go!
Everybody! Leave!
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
When the midnight clock struck, and Bengaluru was silently sleeping...
There came a fortune teller.
He was spreading words of wisdom.
This isn't a city. This isn't a fair land.
No humans remain here.
Destiny and time. Time and destiny.
Together, the future looks bleak.
Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Aquarius and Leo.
Nobody will be spared.
He shall rip and rule.
He will behead those who once ruled.
Said the fortune-teller.
As if spotting the Roller bird, he foretold the destiny.
At 3 A.M. in the morning, on the streets of Bengaluru...
Along with this man's breath, even the dogs had stopped barking.
This head belongs to a man named Deva.
The one who severed it...?
Kali.
From the blunt force of the machete, blood oozed out onto the streets.
Note this in the complaint!
Kalidasa alias...
KD.
Please grant me alms!
With flowers in my hair, vermilion on my forehead,
and banglesingling on my arms, don't you see?
Today is Bheemana Amavaasye.
If a wife prays to her husband today, her longevity increases.
Hey!
Have you lost it?!
Your husband's dead.
The entire town says so.
I fold my hands and beg you.
Please don't say the same thing.
Kali...
Throughout history, a woman's tears have never brought anyone good, Kali.
Return the head to her, Kali.
If a man sheds tears...
A flood of blood shall flow.
Let history pages write this new chapter.
Please don't say such things, my man.
When someone comes to our door, we don't send them back empty handed.
Give it back to her.
Come on now.
[MOB CLASHES WITH THE COPS]
In all his years in the underworld, Dhaak Deva had made many heads roll.
This time, it was his own.
When Sathyavathi held the head in her saree drape and entered the cremation ground
It felt like she was entering a battlefield.
Somewhere else, Kali was given the security cover the president of a country gets.
It didn't feel like the arrest of a criminal.
It felt like the procession of the conqueror of the world, Emperor Ashoka.
Come hither! Like the ritual of Lord Madayya
As if the whole city is out to celebrate you
Come on, Kali
Come hither! Like a rising tsunami
As if you mean to sweep the streets and towns
Come on, Kali
Beat it!
Come on, guys! Pop a Gulabamoon!
Beat it!
How's that?!
BOSS
Want a smack?
A letter has come for you
Boss, a letter has come for you
Kitti from Srirampura has sent one
Korangu in search of you, has come
With a box of Naati Koli
A letter has come for you
Boss, a letter has come for you
Really?!
Sounds good.
Kali
Come on, Kali
Come hither! Like the ritual of Lord Madayya
As if the whole city is out to celebrate you
Come on, Kali
But Swami...
A chapter of a Don's twenty five glorious years in
the underworld was ended by a mere kerosene seller?
And he put an end to it all inust twenty four hours?!
This isn't the end.
Huh?!
This isust the beginning.
Like other widows, she didn't let them break her bangles
wipe off her vermilion and sit in a corner.
Nor did she wail her heart out.
With her husband's severed head in her hands...
She took a vow no woman in history had ever taken.
No matter how massive the army of the man who killed my Deva is...
The one who manages to severe his head and
bring it to me, will get the empire Deva built.
Also...
I shall give that man my everything...
And I shall remain... his slave forever!
Let him go!
- Kali, don't leave me alone! - Get in, Kali.
[MUFFLED SCREAMS]
Sir!
Where is my brother, Sir?
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS]
[ANNAYYAPPA] Are you still living in her memories?
[DHARMA] Weren't you complaining that your brother doesn't talk to you?
That he doesn't eat with you or hold hands while walking?
Don't you want any of that?
[ROUSING MUSIC BUILDS]
Take the machete!
What are you even saying, Swami?!
Well...
You're already losing it.
If I continue telling you the story...
You'll collapse right where you're standing.
What do you mean?
Even though it was Deva's pyre that was lit...
The heat...
Reached Bhairava.
[TRAIN ON TRACKS, RUMBLING, SIREN BLARES]
Sir!
Did Bhairava come to take Kali's head?!
Why does he want his head?
Tony Briganza!
Wait.. Who's Tony Briganza?
Why did he return from Africa?
[THUNDER RUMBLES]
[OFFICER GASPS IN FEAR]
About Tony returning from Africa...
When did I tell you that?!
[CLATTERING TOY DRUM]
The night you saved Kali...
You risked your life to save him.
Today...
To save Kali...
Who.. Who is going to come?
Adorned with matted locks
The remover of all sins
The destroyer of the fears of his devotees
Bhairava!
I worship, I worship, I worship the Supreme, Lord Rama.
Kala Bhairava
Bhairava!
[TRAIN RUSHES]
[TRAIN RUMBLES; AXE SWISHES]
[SPEAR STRIKES GROUND, RESONANT VIBRATION]
Among all of you, whoever knows how to count, stand aside.
Because after he's done killing you all,
someone needs to count and tell the world, right?
Because the man standing right here, is Kaala Bhairava!
Bhairava!
Kali! Come on!
Strike!
Charge and strike!