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Fighter (2011) – Full Plot Summary & Ending Explained
Read the complete plot breakdown of Fighter (2011), including all key story events, major twists, and the ending explained in detail. Discover what really happened—and what it all means.
The film starts with a flashback. ACP Subhas Chandra Bose is a sincere police officer, living with his parents, wife, daughter and younger brother Surya, who is a college student and he falls in love with his classmate Indu. Indu comes across ACP Bose when she is on a field trip from her college with her friends. She gets friendly with his daughter Pinky who tells her that she will introduce her to her uncle Surya and they would make a good pair. But Surya studies in Indu’s college and soon after, they accidentally come to know each other and get close.
Shankar, a notorious promoter as well as gangster known for settlements and land deals. ACP Bose investigates the case of a dreaded criminal Section Shankar whom no one has been able to touch. He is even involved with a land deal involving crores of money which is completely illegal and others including the D.I.G. is involved. When the chairman of the bank who has lent money for the deal demand the money back as the deal hasn’t worked, but Section Shankar eliminates him. The people who are customers of the bank take to the streets and try to damage the bank. ACP Bose arrives there, arrests the manager and takes him away.
Somehow Section Shankar discovers where the manager has been taken. He arrives there with his men and the D.I.G. and nearly kill ACP Bose. Section Shankar asks his men to dump the body. On the way, somehow Surya gets involved and ultimately rescues his brother from a burning bus and the elder brother dies in the younger brother’s arms. The entire media and the people think that ACP Bose has swindled off all the money as they have been made to believe that by the D.I.G. Surya decides to take revenge on the people who killed his brother. Firstly he kills Nikhil (his friend and Section Shankar’s friend) . Then he kills the D.I.G. (he had been taken to jail and he had escaped). Nikhil had also kidnapped Indu as he wants her at any cost, but Surya rescues her. Section Shankar also kidnaps the entire family of Surya. Surya goes to Section Shankar house’s where he kills Shankar and rescues his family under the supervision of the new D.I.G. who supports him wholeheartedly.
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