Directed by Prashanth Neel

Written by Prashanth Neel

Produced by Vijay Kiragandur

Starring

Yash

Sanjay Dutt

Raveena Tandon

Srinidhi Shetty

Prakash Raj

Cinematography Bhuvan Gowda

Edited by Ujwal Kulkarni

Music by Ravi Basrur

Production

company

Hombale Films

Distributed by Hombale Films through

KRG Studios and Jayanna Films

(Kannada)

Excel Entertainment and AA Films

(Hindi)

Varahi Chalana Chitram

(Telugu)

Dream Warrior Pictures

(Tamil)

Prithviraj Productions (Malayalam)

Release date

14 April 2022

Running time 168 minutes

Country India

Language Kannada

Budget ₹100 crore

Box office est. ₹1030 crore

The plot of this film connects with its predecessor. For more information on the predecessor's plot, see K.G.F: Chapter 1.

The night after detailing the events in K.G.F: Chapter 1, Anand Ingalagi suffers a stroke and his son Vijayendra takes over for K.G.F: Chapter 2. Rocky kills heir apparent Virat and takes charge as the kingpin of Kolar Gold Fields (K.G.F), to the chagrin of Guru Pandian, Andrews, Rajendra Desai and Kamal. Rocky takes Reena hostage and kills Kamal. He issues orders to start work in eight reserve mines. Some central ministers, exasperated with K.G.F, plan a no-confidence motion against the DYSS-supported government to bring Ramika Sen to power. Meanwhile, Adheera, who was presumed dead, resurfaces and kills all guards at an outpost. In a ruse to bring Rocky outside K.G.F, Andrews kills Desai to lure Reena outside, and John captures Reena. Adheera shoots Rocky but does not kill him. Adheera’s men ambush Rocky's trucks and block all gold exports from K.G.F by road.

Meanwhile, Shetty ties up with other subordinates of Andrews across the Western Coast and exterminates Rocky's allies. They also join forces with Inayat Khalil. A recuperated Rocky along with Reena visits Dubai to deal in gold with Khalil, but Khalil already has a deal with Shetty. Rocky's aides kill Shetty's associates and recaptures the Western Coast, and Khalil deals with Rocky and sells him AK-47s. Rocky and his gang kill Adheera's henchmen with their newly acquired weapons when they ambush his trucks again. Adheera is wounded but Rocky spares him with a warning. Meanwhile, Rocky's henchmen threaten the ministers against the vote and the no-confidence motion fails. Rocky kills Shetty, gaining control over Bombay. Pandian warns Rocky of Sen's rising stature but he disregards him. Reena develops feelings for Rocky.

Three years later in 1981, Ramika Sen wins the Indian general elections and becomes Prime Minister. After CBI officer Kanneganti Raghavan briefs her about the situation in K.G.F, she closes all state borders and authorises him to raid Rocky's warehouses. A young Ingalagi is caught spying by Rocky's henchmen, but Rocky is impressed by his integrity. The CBI find nothing in their raids save for a 400 gram-gold bar. Rocky retrieves it from a police station and singlehandedly brings the place down with a DShK.

Rocky stops all exports from K.G.F and starts hoarding gold. Andrews requests Adheera to kill Rocky. Rocky's aides trace his biological father, a drunkard who abandoned his family, and Rocky anoints the unaware man caretaker of his mother's newly shifted grave. He also gets married to Reena. Rocky meets with Sen and hands her a file exposing his involvement in money laundering but she cannot consider it as almost all her party members were complicit in the corruption.

Adheera obtains information about a secret passage to K.G.F and informs Andrews. Adheera, Andrews, Daya, John and their gang attack K.G.F with Khalil's armada. Just as Reena announces her pregnancy to Rocky, Adheera fatally snipes her. In the ensuing clash, Rocky's army kill Andrews and Daya, while Rocky kills John and Adheera. Rocky and his henchmen disrupt Sen's resignation speech at the Parliament and kill Pandian. Pandian had staged the attack on Garuda for which Adheera was framed, and informed Adheera of Garuda's attack priorly. He was also the one who showed Adheera the secret passage, goaded Andrews into hiring Rocky, staged the no-confidence motion drama in Delhi and persuaded Shetty to join forces with Khalil just to gain Rocky's trust.

Sen issues a death warrant against Rocky and enforces the Indian Army. Rocky evacuates K.G.F and leaves on a ship with his cache of gold. He signals the Navy to his location but refuses to surrender. Sen issues orders to bomb K.G.F and his ship. Rocky is killed and drowns in the ocean along with the gold, which stays lost till date. Before leaving, Rocky had formed a new colony for all K.G.F workers. A young Ingalagi decides to write a book on Rocky. In a mid-credits scene, three months post-Rocky's death, a CIA official hands over a file listing Rocky's crimes in United States and 16 other nations between 1978-1981 to Ramika Sen. In the present day, the peon of the television news channel finds the final draft of K.G.F: Chapter 3.

Yash as Raja Krishnappa Bairya "Rocky"

Anmol Vijay as young Rocky

Sanjay Dutt as Adheera, Suryavardhan's brother

Raveena Tandon as Ramika Sen, Prime Minister of India

Srinidhi Shetty as Reena Desai, Rocky's wife

Prakash Raj as Vijayendra Ingalagi, son of Anand Ingalagi

Archana Jois as Shanthamma, Rocky's mother

Achyuth Kumar as Guru Pandian

Malavika Avinash as Deepa Hegde, the Chief Editor of 24/news channel

Rao Ramesh as Kanneganti Raghavan, C.B.I Officer

B. S. Avinash as Andrews

Eswari Rao as Farmaan's mother

T. S. Nagabharana as Srinivas, news channel owner

Saran Shakthi as Farmaan, a worker at Narachi

Appaji Ambarisha Darbha as Speaker of the Indian Parliament

Lakki Lakshman as Rajendra Desai, the father of Reena and a high-ranking associate at K.G.F

Ayyappa P. Sharma as Vanaram, commander of K.G.F

John Kokken as John, overseer of K.G.F

Govinde Gowda as a peon at 24/News

Harish Rai as Khasim, Shetty's aide and Rocky's confidant

Tarak Ponnappa as Daya, Andrews' aide

Dinesh Mangaluru as Shetty, Rocky's employer and a prominent gold smuggler

Balakrishna as Inayat Khalil, a Dubai based don

Vasishta N. Simha as Kamal

Ramesh Indira as Suryavardhan, the founder of the K.G.F's political cult and father of Garuda and 

Virat 

(archival footage)

Ramachandra Raju as Garuda, Suryavardhan's son (archival footage)

B. Suresha as Vittal, a slave at KGF (archival footage)

Ashok Sharma as young Anand Ingalagi

Vinay Bidappa as Virat, Garuda's younger brother

Mohan Juneja as Nagaraju, an informer to Anand Ingalagi

Roopa Rayappa as Shanthi, a worker at K.G.F

Nagarjun as Ramesh , CBI Officer

Rajesh Rao as CBI Officer

Krishnappa as Rocky's Father

S Roycott as Kaalraj , Ramika Sen's assistant

Divya G Gowda as Reena's Aide

Journalist Anand Ingalagi's book El-Dorado, that detailed events at the Kolar Gold Fields between 1951 and present day, has been banned by the Government of India and all published copies burnt. However, a television news channel procures a copy and interviews him circling the events.

Ingalagi narrates that ore of gold was discovered by commissioned government officials in the southern part of India's Mysore State (in present-day Kolar district, Karnataka) in 1951. Raja Krishnappa "Rocky" Bairya is also born on the day of the discovery in the Mysore region, to a poor and widowed woman.Suryavardhan, one of the workers that accompanied the officials kills the officials. Discerning the increasing demand for gold by the Cold War belligerents, Suryavardhan deceitfully sets up a company, Narachi, in that land, bought for a lease of 99 years on the pretext of mining limestone. He has five associates, all of who operate away from KGF: Kamal, the son of a former associate Bharghav; Rajendra Desai, the father of Reena, Andrews, who oversees operations in the Konkan and Malabar Coasts; Guru Pandian, a powerful politician and president of the DYSS party; and brother Adheera. However, each of them has their eyes on the mines. Andrews' underboss Shetty is a gold smuggler in Bombay, the city that also has another smuggler, Dubai-based Inayat Khalil's eyes set on.

Rocky arrives in Bombay as a ten-year-old on a quest for power and wealth as desired by his dying mother and begins to work for Shetty. He becomes Shetty's right-hand man later and oversees the arrival of gold bars from Africa to the Bombay coast with an iron fist, and soon rises in strength and power rivalling that of Shetty's. This attracts Andrews who offers him Bombay in return for assassinating Garuda, the younger son of Suryavardhan, who was seen to inherit KGF after his paralysed father's passing. Rocky accepts the offer and heads to Bangalore where an event is staged for the purpose. Once there, he witnesses the sheer presence,authority and power that Garuda commands and has the attempt averted.

In 1978, at the KGF, a bedridden Suryavardhan announces Garuda as his successor overlooking Adheera, who he wants to serve as the latter's aide. Garuda's ruthless way of functioning aided by his commander Vanaram comes to fore. Rocky soon makes his way into KGF evading a unit of henchmen. Once there, he witnesses the brutality that the slaves are subjected to. Although apathetic at first, he is moved by a couple of incidents involving a cold-blooded killing of a mother and son at the hands of an overseer and the slaves' children hoping that he rises to liberate them. Beginning his attempt at it and to indicate to Desai and his men through informants, Kulkarni and Garuda's virtuous brother Virat, that he was alive, as planned, Rocky engages in a fight with a unit of twenty-one overseers killing each one of them in order to save a blind slave they were to kill. With the act, Rocky emerges as a hero in the slaves' eyes.

An alerted Vanaram now informs Garuda who heads toward the mines from his palatial residence. To avert thousands of slaves being killed due to his fury, Virat smothers father Suryavardhan to death and sidetracks Garuda, who rushes back home. At the mines, Rocky seizes the opportunity, conspires and unsuspectingly heads through a tunnel to the site where Garuda has decided to behead three slaves as offerings to a deity. Upon Garuda's return to the site and sacrifice of two slaves, a concealed Rocky emerges and beheads him. The ecstatic slaves accept him as their leader as they cheer him on. The narrator concludes that Rocky intentionally chose KGF as the site to assassinate Garuda, in order to earn the will of an "army of people", the slaves, before he seized KGF to his control but still there are people who are waiting to acquire the throne and how Rocky will face them as one man army and why he was given a death warrant by Prime Minister Ramika Sen will be shown in Chapter 2.

Directed by Prashanth Neel

Produced by Vijay Kiragandur

Written by Dialogues:

Prashanth Neel

Chandramouli M

Vinay Shivangi

Screenplay by Prashanth Neel

Story by Prashanth Neel

Cast  :  Yash as Raja "Rocky Bhai" Krishnappa Bhairya
Anmol Vijay as young Rocky
Srinidhi Shetty as Reena Desai
Archana Jois as Shanthamma, Rocky's mother
Anant Nag as Anand Ingalagi
Ashok Sharma as young Anand Ingalagi
Ramesh Indira as Suryavardhan
Ramachandra Raju as Garuda
Vinay Bidappa as Virat
Laxman as Rajendra Desai
Vasishta N. Simha as Kamal
Achyuth Kumar as Guru Pandian
B. S. Avinash as Andrews
Tharak Ponnappa as Daya, Andrews' aide
Dinesh Mangaluru as Shetty
Harish Rai as Khasim, Shetty's aide and Rocky's confidante
Balakrishna as Inayat Khalil
T. S. Nagabharana as the owner of television news channel 24/News
Malavika Avinash as Deepa Hegde, the chief editor of 24/News
Govinda Gowda as a peon at 24/News
Mohan Juneja as Nagaraju, an informer to Ingalagi
Ayyappa P. Sharma as Vanaram, commander for KGF
John Kokken as John, an overseer at KGF
Puneeth Rudranag as Rugga, an overseer at mines
Neenasam Ashwath as Kulkarni
B. Suresha as Vittal, a slave at KGF
T. N. Srinivas Murthy as Narayan, a slave at KGF
Lakshmipathi as Kencha, a slave at KGF, the storyteller
Roopa Rayappa as Shanthi, a slave at KGF
Sampath Maitreya as Shanti's Husband
Yashwant Shetty
Shambavi Venkatesh
Tamannaah as Milky in a special appearance for an item number "Jokae"

Starring

Yash

Srinidhi Shetty

Anant Nag

Malavika Avinash

Vasishta N. Simha

Narrated by Anant Nag

Music by Ravi Basrur

Cinematography Bhuvan Gowda

Edited by Shrikanth

Production

company

Hombale Films

Distributed by

KRG Studios (Kannada)

Excel Entertainment & AA Films (Hindi)

Vishal Film Factory (Tamil)

Vaaraahi Chalana Chitram (Telugu)

Global United Media (Malayalam)

Release date

20 December 2018 (United States & Canada)

21 December 2018 (India)

Running time

155 minutes

Country India

Language Kannada

Budget ₹50–80 crore[a]

Box office est. ₹243–250 crore