Pushpa 2 ending explained: Is Allu Arjun’s nemesis Shekhawat dead? Who is the new villain making a cameo?

The much-awaited film of the year, Pushpa: The Rule/ Pushpa 2, has finally hit theatres and has been getting majorly positive reviews, with a section criticising as well. With the film looking to grow on the audience and will be capitalising the weekend, that is not all we are going to get from the Pushpa franchise. Allu Arjun and director Sukumar's film hints at a third part, titled Pushpa: The Rampage. While we don't know when it will hit theatres, here is how the Pushpa 2 ends on a high note, by teasing a new antagonist. Who is it? 

Pushpa 2 ending explained: Is Shekhawat dead?

For those who haven’t followed the first part, Pushpa Raj, an illegitimate child who grew up being ostracised, has slowly grown to be the kingpin of red sanders smuggling syndicate in Tirupati. He is now a man who can spin the world with his painted and decorated little finger’s elongates nail. But still makes sure his world spins around his wife Srivalli (Rashmika Mandanna), who doesn’t shy away to take control and get under control of her man. Love brims so much between them, that Srivalli’s mere words of request to Pushpa to take a photograph with the CM, makes Pushpa change people in position to that of who he wants, Siddappa (Rao Ramesh) overnight. Why? Because the sitting CM refused to take photograph with Pushpa.

That’s not it, when Pushpa, who is now a brand and aims to go international, encounters his foe Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat IPS (Fahadh Faasil) who is on a mission to get back at Pushpa for making him strip on the night of his wedding with Srivalli (visit post credits of Pushpa: The Rise). Now how come all will go well, when Pushpa is asked to apologise to Shekhawant by the now CM Sidappa, for the sake of syndicate’s synchronised working with the help of power and police. Eventually, an intoxicated Pushpa does ask sorry to Shekhawat, only to come back and challenge him to try stop preventing his good being transferred.

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Now what follows is a barrage of action set pieces (which also includes the highlighted Jatara sequence) and no-less glitzy numbers, Pushpa achieves to blow dust into Shekhawat’s eyes as he is able to smuggle his logs to Sri Lanka right under his eyes. By fooling Shekhawat with red-tinted logs into believing they are red sanders, Shekhawat gets played one again, as he starts a fire in the godown of confiscated good and never attempts to run away. Has Shekhawat accepted his failure and burnt himself alive? Has he gone for good? Or is it Shekhawat’s yet again notorious way to make Pushpa into believing he is dead only to come back in a different avatar?

Pushpa: The Rise ending leads to Rampage: Who is the new antagonist?

How can we forget the highlighted Jatara sequence in which Pushpa cross dresses as a woman to fight off a bunch of men who teases his niece Kaveri. Pushpa might have it all, but at the bottom of heart earns for a surname, Molleti, that his father’s legitimate family refuses to give as they chide him away. At a temple festival organised, when Kaveri is sexually harassed by Buggi Reddy and is friends who come from money and power, Pushpa takes the onus on himself to save his niece. As he adorned in jewellery and saree, Pushpa takes on the men as he nearly thrashes them to death.

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But that is not it, as the men holding grudges kidnap Kaveri, only to pave way for a climatic action sequence that promises the heroic slow-motion shots, gravity-defying stunt sequences, and men getting beaten to death by our very own hero. The safe rescue of Kaveri makes her father and Pushpa’s half brother seek apology. As they family reunite, and Allu Arjun attends Kaveri’s wedding along with his heavily-pregnant Srivalli, we see a gift being attached with bomb. And who has a detonator? A mysterious man who sees the wedding from a cliff as he presses the button. Is Pushpa dead along with his Srivalli and unborn child? Who is the mysterious man or could that be Shekhawat himself who loves to cosplay? Or is there a new antagonist in the making? Only Sukumar’s Pushpa: The Rampage will have the answers.