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Coolie, starring Rajinikanth within the lead function, hit the large screens on August 14, 2025. Because the Lokesh Kanagaraj directorial continues its theatrical run, right here’s an ending explainer so that you can make sense of the climax and epilogue.
What’s Coolie about?
Coolie options the story of Devaraj aka Deva (performed by Rajinikanth), a former daily-wage laborer who runs a mansion much like a hostel with strict guidelines. On a fateful day, Deva receives the devastating information that his pricey good friend Rajasekhar has handed away from cardiac arrest.
As he arrives on the funeral house in Vizag, Rajasekhar’s daughter Preethi (Shruti Haasan) drives him out, making a scene. Rising suspicious of his good friend’s dying, Deva investigates and discovers that Rajasekhar (Sathyaraj) was murdered. This leads him to uncover an invention made by Rajasekhar earlier than his dying.
Rajasekhar had been collaborating with against the law syndicate run by Simon Xavier (Nagarjuna Akkineni), serving to them disintegrate useless our bodies with no hint, utilizing a plasma condenser.
With Preethi’s life at risk, Devaraj saves her and decides to infiltrate Simon’s syndicate. Contained in the prison community, the syndicate is operated by Dayalan (Soubin Shahir), Simon’s right-hand man.
Over the next days, Deva helps Simon get rid of the useless our bodies whereas Dayalan is in the hunt for a mole. Finally, Dayalan finds out the rat and presents him to Simon.
Hours later, Simon calls up Deva, who then learns that Simon killed Dayalan, who was the actual mole and an undercover police constable. Nevertheless, after being buried, Dayalan regains consciousness and pleads for his life.
As Dayalan deceives Deva and Preethi, it’s revealed that he was the one who had killed Rajasekhar. Now, Preethi is in his grasp, and Deva is compelled to adjust to Dayalan’s orders. In the meantime, Simon is suspicious of Deva, typically feeling that he has seen him earlier than.
What connection do Simon and Deva have?
Quickly, Dayalan tries to orchestrate a number of tips to upend Simon’s syndicate. Nevertheless, Deva finally counters his strikes, revealing a number of hidden truths.
On the similar time, Devaraj learns that out of Rajasekhar’s 3 daughters, considered one of them is his personal organic baby. Whereas in pursuit of discovering who it’s, Preethi is captured by Simon and his males. Finally, Deva learns that Preethi is his daughter and turns into decided to avoid wasting her at any value.
In a remaining showdown with Simon, Deva reveals their previous connection. Years in the past, when Devaraj was the labour union chief, Simon’s father, Xavier, tried to falsely imprison 100 coolies.
Earlier than they could possibly be executed, Deva saved them and killed Xavier proper in entrance of a younger Simon.
Within the current, Deva defeats Simon and places an finish to his reign. It is usually revealed that Simon not solely smuggled gold however was additionally concerned within the unlawful organ commerce.
Quickly, Simon’s boss Dahaa (Aamir Khan) arrives in India, solely to find that Deva was the fearless man who as soon as stood up for his Coolies. Whereas Dahaa threatens to take revenge for Simon’s dying, Deva responds that he’s able to face him at any time when obligatory.
In an epilogue, Preethi and Deva share an emotional second earlier than she leaves India together with her sisters. Nevertheless, Deva chooses to not reveal that he’s her organic father. In a remaining shot, he seems at a photograph of himself and his spouse (photograph cameo by Shobana), preserving the reality to himself.
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