Suzhal Season 2 Ending Explained: Who Killed Chellappan? Does Nandini Get Justice?

Suzhal Season 2, or Suzhal: The Vortex Season 2 is here and it’s just as thrilling as you’d expect! The story this time follows Sakkarai as he is tasked to unearth the perpetrator behind the murder of senior activist Chellappa, Nandini’s lawyer, but stumbles upon a shocking and disgusting secret that threatens to destroy everything that he has believed in. Set against the backdrop of the massive Ashtakaali Festival in Kaalipattinam, as more and more horrible secrets come to the surface the deeper he digs, will justice prevail or will the bad guys get away with their scheming ways?

The second season of the Prime Video Tamil thriller has 8 episodes, each with a runtime of around 45 minutes.

Suzhal Season 2 Ending Explained

The season starts with Nandini, Sakkarai and Chellappa in court as Nandini’s case gets discussed. Although the prosecutors want Nandini to be sent to prison for murder, Chellappa argues that Nandini did what she did because of self-defence. Unfortunately, in spite of putting some good points forward, the judge gives them another date to give the verdict. Stuck in prison again, Nandini is losing hope, but Sakkarai assures her that next time she will be a free woman.

Meanwhile, Sakkarai goes to Kaalipattinam with his mentor Chellappa after being put on leave thanks to Nandini using his service revolver to kill Guna. While at Kaalipattinam, however, Chellappa suddenly turns up deadly, leaving Sakkarai, who thought of him as a father figure, to be deeply traumatised. It doesn’t help that he found his dead body. Taking place in a tight-knit community, Sakkarai gets the job of figuring out who killed Chellappa along with Moorthy from the local station, as the others fear the backlash if things go sideways. Sakkarai early on figures out that, although this had been staged as a suicide, it wasn’t so since the revolver with which Chellappa seemingly shot himself seems to be missing.

Of course, that becomes clear when Sakkarai finds a young girl locked in a closet with blood on her and Chellappa’s gun. Shocked, they of course think that it’s her who has killed Chellappa, although she refuses to say anything. The investigation slows down soon enough when Sakkarai is unable to find any more proof but gets lucky when someone recognises the mystery girl at Muthu, an adult dancer belonging to a troupe, that was disbanded some time back. In a shocking twist, however, soon after, 7 more young women confess to killing Chellappa at different police stations, making this story even more complicated.

Sakkarai and his team desperately try to find the common thread between them but are unable to do so. Thankfully, Nandini comes to Sakkarai’s aide as, after being unable to come to a conclusion, all eight women are sent to prison to await trial. Nandini gets close to all of them in different ways and tells Sakkarai that they all stayed in hostels at some point in their lives. Sakkarai dives into this information and finds out that their education had been sponsored by a nearby well-known school. Although the principal refuses to help him, she eventually opens up when Sakkarai threatens her school. She tells him that Chellappa had brought these eight girls to her and told her to disperse them to different schools and make sure that he had access to them.

Hearing this, Sakkarai thinks the worst of Chellappa, going against his instinct and thinking that Chellappa had trafficked these girls or that he was abusing them. He is heartbroken at this revelation but continues to look into the matter. At the jail, Nandini follows the girls around and finds them together in a rundown structure within the jail premises. As she grows close to an influential woman called Saroja in prison, who is serving time for apparently a fake case by a rival political party, the girls do more and more strange things. One of them starts to have seizures and in one incident, she gets her hands on a case file.

In episode 7, we suddenly shift focus and see the story of Nagamma and her fisherman husband. One work night, she finds him to be escorting several young girls to his boat. Scared, she immediately goes to the boat and confronts him and her otherwise loveable husband grows violent and hits her, knocking her unconscious. As the boat is about to leave, the kingpin of the trafficking operation makes an appearance and all the girls get to see her face. Later, out at sea, Nagamma confronts her husband once again and this time, she attacks him and chops off his head. Now responsible for eight young girls, she makes her way to Kaalipattinam where she resorts to prostitution to take care of the children.

Soon, the girls also accept her as their mother they start living in the rundown building that is now on the jail premises. Unfortunately, one night, she is almost caught on a raid but comes across Chellappa who saves the women from being harassed by the police. She approaches him with her problem and the two hatch a plan to get the kingpin. Unfortunately, the day she was supposed to testify in court, the kingpin’s henchmen find and murder her and Chellappa rushes to save the girls after getting rid of the men. Loveable as ever, he goes to the principal and blackmails her to send the kids to different schools and gives them new names so that no one is able to find them. It turns out that Chellappa wasn’t abusing the girls, he actually saved them.

Suzhal Season 2 Episode 8

As things seem to be getting more and more complicated, the Suzhal Season 2 finale shows us all of its cards. Muthu tells their past to Nandini after the girls attack her for exploiting their trust and telling Sakkarai everything. They also tell her that, when they reached the cottage the night of Chellappa’s murder (which is where the trafficking operation used to take place and Chellappa bought the place so as to put a stop to it), they found his laptop and others important papers burning in the underground cave. When they found Chellappa’s dead body, however, Muthu came up with a plan so as not to let their father’s murder go in vain and so that the police do not turn this into a suicide. Although the other girls were not on board with this plan, after Muthu’s arrest, they decided to do the right thing.

Meanwhile, Sakkarai couldn’t stop himself from wondering how the cupboard door was closed from the outside after Muthu went inside it, since all the doors and windows were locked from the inside. He surmises that it must have been either Moorthy or him who did it and since he didn’t do it, it must’ve been Moorthy. Although the latter rebuffs his words at first, he eventually tells her that he is having an affair with Saroja and she is the kingpin of the entire operation. The business that she seemingly was so successful in outside the jail was her trafficking business. Moorthy apparently can’t function in front of strong, influential women and thus isn’t able to stand up to them. He ran Saroja’s business while she was in jail because she instructed him to. Hearing this awful confession, Moorthy and Sakkarai get into a physical altercation, which results in Moorthy hitting Sakkarai over the head and escaping.

Fernandez finds him bloodied and patches him up enough as the two of them rush out. It turns out that two other girls are being brought to Kaalipattinam and Moorthy is about to go to sea with them. Although Sakkarai had information about this before, the local police refused to help because of the Ashtakaali Festival. Now, Sakkarai and the other fishermen go out to sea to stop Moorthy and Saroja’s henchmen from taking the girls away and eventually, the girls are rescued from the sea thanks to Sakkarai.

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At the jail, Saroja bribes the other inmates to get rid of the girls, having learnt of their true identities. A fight breaks out in the jail and after getting beaten up by several of the inmates, the eight girls band together to fight Saroja. They severely thrash her and almost kill her but Nandini intervenes and stops them before they make the same mistake as her.

In the aftermath, the bad guys are arrested and the girls are freed. Nandini, too, is let go after Chellappa’s closing statements are taken into consideration. However, Sakkarai loses his job for not being irresponsible with his firearm, but it seems like he’s not too broken up about it. In the end, the two of them hold hands while looking out at the sea, talking about whether Nandini is a good person, and Sakkarai assures her that she is.

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