Jawan Ending Explained: Returning for his second commercial blockbuster of 2023, Shah Rukh Khan leads the pan-Indian high-octane action thriller film directed and co-written by Atlee (screenplay also by S Ramanagirivasan), as the filmmaker makes his Hindi directorial debut with this Red Chillies Entertainment production. Alongside Khan, Nayanthara, Vijay Sethupathi, Priyamani, Sanya Malhotra, Riddhi Dogra, Sanjeeta Bhattacharya, Girija Oak, Lehar Khan, Aaliyah Qureishi, Eijaz Khan and Sunil Grover also take on important roles, with Deepika Padukone making a special appearance in the film to again join SRK after the pair wowed the world with their work in Pathaan earlier this year.
Releasing in theatres on September 7, 2023, Khan’s first pan-Indian film has been produced by Gauri Khan and Gaurav Verma, with GK Vishnu working on its cinematography, Ruben as the editor, Sumit Arora penning down its dialogues and Anirudh Ravichander delivering its applause-worthy music. It’s also been distributed in Tamil and Telugu internationally and has a runtime of 169 minutes.
The Jawan Ending Explained Contains Major Spoilers Ahead
The movie’s official synopsis, as listed by Red Chillies Entertainment, reads, “Jawan is a high-octane action thriller which outlines the emotional journey of a man who is set to rectify the wrongs in society.”
SRK has been listed as playing the dual roles of Vikram Rathore and Azad Rathore in Jawan, so how did this translate on the screen? Was he the movie’s hero, villain, anti-hero, something else, or just all of the above? What fate awaited for his character(s) at the end of the film? We spill all the beans here!
Jawan Ending Explained
After Nayanthara’s Narmada Rai comes face to face with Irani’s (Sunil Grover) true allegiance, she’s shocked to discover her long-time colleague being in cahoots with Vijay Sethupathi’s Kalee all along. Once the earnest action scene goes down between them all at the Belamwada Women’s Jail, Narmada too joins Azad’s girl gang, stepping into the shoes of the recently deceased Lakshmi (Priyamani) who sacrificed herself to protect Narmada.
Thereafter, with Narmada on their side of the mission, the system sends in a different official negotiator to settle the issue with Azad posing as Vikram Rathore for once and for all. Having left the ongoing Onam celebration at his place, Madhavan Naik aka Sanjay Dutt reaches the gates of the women’s jail in his traditional attire for the festival. Atlee takes a comical jab at his Khal Nayak fame, by making the actor punch in the title theme jingle, further playing on his new character’s last name “Nayak nahi, khal nayak hoon main”.
On finally getting down to the negotiations part, Azad asks him for an Indian citizen’s sign to close the deal fair and square, but it isn’t just any ordinary citizen’s signature that he requires, but that of the Head of the State, on a document that would forever seal 53 toxic factories endangering the lives of the public living in its vicinity. In terms of what he’d been holding to ransom, he sends out two EVM machines as a small sneak peek as opposed to the humongous number of machines he’d been holding hostage inside the jail.
It’s a wake up call for the government, and after much discussion, they realise that though “Vikram”‘s ways are extreme, his intentions are in the right. In the parallel scene, Kalee tortures the old squad members of the real Vikram Rathore, aka Azad Rathore’s father, whose memories had been wiped out upon been fatally attacked by Kalee in the past. He has no choice but to give in and slip up the details of the back door entry to the same jail.
In the meantime, as Azad wraps up his side of the negotiation and agrees to send out all the EVM machines in regular intervals of ten minutes, he also asks for the chance to directly speak to the citizens of the country and then urges them to make the most of their voting powers by asking themselves if the politician they’re bringing to power will uphold their promises or not. He takes off his old-man getup, and instead of introducing himself as either Azad or Vikram, he openly states himself to be one among the crowd, i.e. a common man.
The happy hour at women’s jail is cut short as Kalee drops in while holding Vikram and his squad members as captives. He turns to attack Vikram to exact an emotional response out of Azad while constantly asking them about his money’s whereabouts. Azad tries to stop him but he doesn’t have to do much anyway as Vikram’s defective guns fail to pull the trigger on Vikram, and the same clicking sound of the ineffective guns trigger his old memories of fighting alongside his squad in the field, coming face to face with Kalee and his loved life with his wife, Aishwarya, played by Deepika Padukone.
In the final showdown, the father-son duo finally reunite, but this time on an emotional level too, and they either take turns or team up to defeat Kalee and his huge Baahubali-like bodyguard, Murad. To finish it all and avenge his mother, Azad pulls Kalee to the same spot in the jail where his mother was executed when he was only 5 years old. He hits him with the same back-handed remarks that Kalee had taunted his mother with, and then the girl squad pulls the lever to hang him from the gallows.
Jawan End Credits Scene
Months later, on an undisclosed island location, the whole team rejoices and parties away the hours in their free time after completing their mission. However, in the midst of all this pomp and fervour, Sanjay Dutt’s Naik drops by Azad’s doorstep, almost as if to take him in, but it’s soon revealed that he’s rather the insider who’s been helping Azad and the girls on their missions since the beginning.
Naik hands out a new mission report to Azad (“new instalment in the works” vibes much?), intimating him about something that has to do with the Swiss Bank. Azad calls out to his father Vikram to get ready for the same, but he refuses to give into the “dull” routine unless they’ve first made the most of the hours they’re enjoying at present. To close the show for good, both the father and son break it down on the dance floor to the Not Ramaiya Vastavaiya song, and the girls – Nayanthara, Sanya Malhotra, Riddhi Dogra, Sanjeeta Bhattacharya, Girija Oak, Lehar Khan, and Aaliyah Qureishi also join them.
The Jawan movie is now playing in theatres in Tamil and Telugu languages as well.
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