(theme music)
(rousing music)
(metal clanks)
(pants)
-(footsteps) -(Baahubali grunts)
(thud)
(Katappa) You fight well.
Where did you learn to fight?
(Baahubali) I was taught by the best.
The best, you say?
Then it must be someone I know.
(chuckles, pants)
The man who trained me would've nothing to do with the likes of you.
Hmm.
An older, wiser man, I can see that.
But you ruin your technique
with the rashness of youth, in a hurry to win.
Looks like he did not teach you
that in your zeal to win, you court death.
(swords clash)
(thud)
(swords clash)
(wolfmask) Your slave fights better than most.
Who is he?
(guard 1) Some soldiers were taken
from that ambush in Mahishmati months ago.
He was near death when he was brought in.
Thought he would die for sure.
But as you can see, he has a will to live.
(wolfmask) Won't do him much good, not against Katappa.
If he was not so addled from drink
this fight would have ended much earlier.
(Baahubali grunts)
-(metal clanks) -(thuds)
Katappa, you stupid old fool!
(scoffs)
You should have seen that coming.
Enough of this foolish game.
Better.
(Baahubali) Katappa?
So you know me?
Well, the man I was is dead.
(shouts) Katappa is dead!
(swords clashing)
(thud)
(swords clash)
Katappa, wait! You must stop. It's m--
How dare you order me!
I am done taking orders from anyone.
Not from you!
Not from Sivagami!
Mahishmati can burn.
-(thud) -(metal clanks)
(pants)
I cannot...
I cannot fight you.
I will not.
Then you are a fool.
No one decides if they can or cannot fight.
Life is a constant fight.
But how will you fight against me?
When you have spent a lifetime saving me...
Old friend.
Huh?
(thud)
(guard 1) Finish him! You have him at your mercy!
Kill him!
I do not kill defenceless men.
And I do not take orders
from scum like you.
(guard 1) He dares to--
(wolfmask) You are everything... (claps)
...that the legends say, Katappa.
More than that. Come with me.
I shall take you to the one who you share much in common with.
Someone who will give you a new purpose worthy of your talents.
(footsteps)
I will take Katappa to meet our master.
(wolfmask) You make sure that the slave gets back to work.
But before you do that, go down and collect the weapons.
(crickets chirping)
(guard 1) Wake up, dog.
No one else seems willing to kill you
so I guess it better be me.
How do you want to die?
By rope or by sword?
I prefer old age.
Go back to your tent and sleep it off. You are drunk.
So now you are tough, huh?
You are nothing but a coward!
I saw you drop to your knees with fear in front of Katappa.
Well, I will give you something to really fear.
You should have killed me while I slept
and spared me your idle prattle.
I will say you were trying to escape.
(key clanks)
-Escape with these on? -(chain jangles)
(chuckles) Only a fool would believe that.
(door screeches)
(footsteps)
(guard 1) Desperate men do desperate things, foolish things.
(footsteps)
You're more right than you know.
What are you going to do with that? Pick your teeth?
Pick the lock.
(metal clanking)
No!
Yes.
-(people screaming) -(thwacking)
(panting)
(both grunting)
(thud)
(grunts)
(sword swishes)
(thud)
(footsteps)
This is the last of them.
But they could stay in there all night.
We cannot get close without being shot.
(tense music)
Distract them for me.
(clattering, thudding)
Go! Go!
(arrows swishing)
(arrow swishes)
(boulder cracking)
(groans)
(pelting)
(dramatic music)
(stone screeching)
Hey, hear that?
What is it?
(screeching)
Ignore it.
(thud)
He did it.
-(all cheer) -We are free!
We are free!
(crowd) Free!
Free!
(footsteps)
(trumpet blowing)
People are approaching!
How many?
Thousands, sir! Thousands!
(footsteps approaching)
Go alert the palace, boy.
Yes, sir.
(footsteps)
Do you think that Demon Lord is making his move?
If he is, he is not being subtle about it.
Marching straight up to our main gate?
I cannot see any siege weapons.
(commander) It is just...
That is far enough! Who are you?
What do you want?
Food! Water! Give us food!
I told you to stand back!
I had heard that the gates of Mahishmati
are always open for people seeking refuge?
We live in strange times.
There are many unexpected threats these days.
Where are you from?
Many places once upon a time.
It seems so long ago that I have almost forgotten.
That is why we are here.
You have a big city, room enough for a few more, I hope.
Mahishmati's walls have been sealed to outsiders for months.
And we do not need more beggars, if that is even what you truly are.
Sir, they look harmless enough. I doubt they are spies.
I will not risk Mahishmati's security
on your hunches.
Turn around. Go back the way you came.
Mahishmati does not want you--
(gate creaking)
(footsteps)
You should be resting, Maa.
Leave this rubbish to me.
They are just a mob of beggars. I will get rid of them.
Let me see for myself, my son.
-Then do what you deem fit. -Yes, Maa.
(footsteps)
Rajmata.
Who are you?
(man) We are the lost, looking for our homes.
We have come a long, long way. From the gates of death.
And yet, there are those of us who believe a promise is a promise.
And I promised you
that, no matter what,
-(wind whooshes, triumphant music) -I will always come home, Maa.
(Sivagami weeps)
(people cheering)
Let today be a day of celebration.
This day, no one shall be hungry or wanting in Mahishmati.
I declare alms to the poor be distributed to all
and feasts be enjoyed throughout the streets of Mahishmati.
Our prince has returned!
(applause continues)
(Baahubali) I made a promise. (bangs)
I promised to find their children.
You are needed here, defending Mahishmati.
And what is that promise worth, really?
You are a prince. They are just slaves.
They are people.
Captured, beaten, tortured. As was I, brother. For six months.
Working with them, eating with them, living with them.
Each one a human being no different from us
with dreams, hopes, families.
Families that have been stolen from them.
Sons and daughters taken away by this Demon Lord
to who knows where.
We all know where.
Those children would have been taken
to the slave markets on the coast.
Sold to merchants who would have carried them
across the seas to places far from here.
Tragic as it may be,
those children are long gone.
(gulps) It is a fool's errand
to hope to find them after all this time.
Will we not even try?
You give alms to the poor and think that is enough?
They need more than food. They need their families back.
You care too much for this rubbish.
If you love low-borns so much,
I will just buy you some new ones to have as pets.
Maa, I know the value you place on all life.
The kindness in your heart.
Do you agree with this?
Maa?
Attend to the matters of state, Baahu.
You may have lived as a slave, but you were never one.
You are a prince.
And a prince has duties to protect his kingdom first.
Or have you forgotten that?
No, Maa.
My first duty is always to you.
No, my son.
I have always taught you
that your duty is to the throne of Mahishmati, not me.
And you also taught me that
the throne that discriminates between the rich and the poor
is no throne at all.
(scoffs) You would put the nobility on the same level
as those dregs camped outside our walls?
Next, you would want them living in the palace itself.
Are you that ignorant?
Which battalion?
The Royal Bulls.
Destroyed. A few survivors taken prisoner and into slavery.
Who did they face? The Demon Lord?
(commander) The Black Legion has a new General…
Katappa.
(glass clanks)
That treacherous dog! We should have killed him.
Katappa trained the army, trained all of us.
Everything we know, he knows. Every strategy.
Tell me if you are scared, brother.
I can march on the battlefield alone.
We do not fight him.
We need to get him back, Bhalla,
and have him stand beside us, not against us.
You were wrong to blame him,
to banish and humiliate him the way you did. We need to--
(Sivagami) You forget yourself, Baahu!
We raised Katappa,
gave him his position,
and it was our right to take it away!
Now he is a traitor.
A mercenary with loyalty to no one!
Mahishmati is better off without him!
But, Maa--
Enough, brother.
Remember your place.
Maa is right.
That man is nothing to us.
Instead of pitying him,
find a way to beat him.
That is your duty.
(footsteps)
(eerie music)
(footsteps)
(thud)
We have found him, Lord.
He fought until his sword broke, and he kept fighting.
Hmm. He is a warrior of Mahishmati.
I am not surprised. He was taught by me.
(groans)
Who?
(footsteps)
Me.
Can this really be my old friend?
My heart bleeds to see
how far you have fallen.
Disgusting!
Fallen? I am not the one being dragged through the filth.
You are the one still worshipping
the rich who treat you like a slave.
Dirt will be washed, wounds will heal.
But the taint on your honour can never be cleansed.
There is not a man amongst you. You keep the company of wolves.
Better a wolf than Mahishmati's dog!
Take him away, and put him in chains with the rest.
(laughs)
(ominous music)
Raktadeva.
Another victory?
Was there any doubt?
I trained your army.
Everything they know, I taught them.
But I did not teach them everything.
We should strike Mahishmati now. Why wait?
Patience, Katappa.
The Black Forge is creating new designs
that will tear down Mahishmati's walls and topple its towers
with a power never before seen.
Let matters come to a head.
Then you strike when the iron is hot.
Raktadeva, I would like to see this forge.
Perhaps I can assist with these new weapon designs.
In time, Katappa.
In time.
(intense music)
Does it trouble you?
Fighting your own people?
I have no people.
Sivagami reminded me of that
the day she lashed her whip across my face.
We are our own men, you and I.
The strength to rise from nothing to seize your destiny.
Those pampered fools who live well off our labours
will know what true strength is.
Not to be born into comfort and wealth.
What would they know about the lives
men like us have endured, my brother?
Their time has come
to an end.
We are building a new people, a special breed of men.
The old world will be turned to ash.
Will you promise me only one thing?
What is it, Katappa?
As Mahishmati burns...
Sivagami and Bijjaladeva...
Let me be the one who holds the whip
and makes them taste the lash.
They will crawl like dogs.
Yes, Katappa! Yes, my friend. I can promise you that.
I will even make you a whip of black steel barbs
worthy of the lesson!
(Raktadeva laughs)