Devasena gave birth to their son—Mahendra. For a time, there was peace. But Bhalla could not tolerate his cousin’s happiness. He conspired with a greedy warlord to attack the village. Amarendra defended his people single-handedly, slaughtering the entire army without a drop of royal help. This act of defiance was the final straw for Sivagami. She ordered Amarendra’s arrest. In the dungeons, Bhalla played his final move. He revealed to Sivagami a conspiracy: a plot that showed Amarendra was about to overthrow her. It was a lie, but a perfect one. He then made a secret deal with Kattappa. He reminded the slave of his oath: to obey the ruling monarch without question. And then, he ordered Sivagami to give the command.
With her last breath, Sivagami places the crown of Mahishmati on Mahendra’s head, whispering, “Forgive me.” Mahendra carries Bhallaladeva to the edge of the cliff overlooking the kingdom. He does not kill him with a sword. Instead, he hoists the tyrant onto his shoulders, walks to the edge, and performs the ultimate humiliation. With a primal roar, he rips Bhalla in half—literally tearing him apart—and hurls the pieces down into the cheering crowd below.
He manipulated Queen Sivagami’s rigid sense of law. He whispered that Devasena was arrogant, disrespectful to the crown. The turning point came when a humble sculptor crafted a magnificent golden statue of Devasena. Bhalla’s men smashed it. Devasena, in her fury, took a hammer to a decorative emblem of Bhallaladeva. Sivagami saw this as treason. The queen, bound by her oath to the throne above all, banished Amarendra and Devasena from the palace. But Amarendra was no ordinary exile. He moved to a small village on the kingdom’s edge and, with the help of the loyal Kattappa, built a hidden utopia. He diverted a river to end a drought, created fertile farmland, and became a folk hero to the very people the palace ignored. He named this paradise after his mother. bahubali 2 full film
Believing her son a traitor, a heartbroken Sivagami looked at the loyal Kattappa and whispered the words: “Free him from his bonds.”
And so, the loyal slave begins his tale, not from the end, but from the glorious, tragic beginning. Years before, Amarendra Baahubali (Prabhas) was the beloved prince of Mahishmati. Unlike his brooding cousin Bhallaladeva (Rana Daggubati), Amarendra was a man of the people—humble, ferocious, and kind. Their queen mother, Sivagami (Ramya Krishnan), ruled as regent, having raised both boys as heirs, though her heart always leaned toward the more disciplined Bhalla. Devasena gave birth to their son—Mahendra
Bhallaladeva unleashes everything: war elephants, giant rotating battle saws, and a golden armor that makes him invincible. Mahendra fights like his father—not with brutality, but with genius. He uses Bhalla’s own weight against him, burying him in mud, tearing off his armor piece by piece.
“You did not kill my father,” Mahendra says. “You were a weapon. Bhallaladeva was the hand that wielded you.” He conspired with a greedy warlord to attack the village
The reign of terror ends.