Khadaan
Leaving his rural home in Purulia, Shyam travels to the Damodar Valley to find work as a coal mine laborer. The film follows Shyam and Mohan as they navigate their new lives and confront challenges, exploring the complexities of friendship and personal growth amidst difficult circumstances.
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Khadaan (2024) – Full Plot Summary & Ending Explained
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1997: After losing everything in Bangladesh, Shyam comes to India as an illegal immigrant by crossing the border. Here he went to work as a laborer in the coal mines of the Damodar Valley and there he met Mohan, a Vaishnavite. Over the time, they developed a strong bond of friendship. Together with Shyam’s strength and Mohan’s mastermind, they gained monopoly control over the entire colliery. They had developed their complete influence over the coal syndicate.
This amplification in power bought them in a stand against the local MLA, Shehzad Siddique. In the meantime, Shyam had become a messiah for the poor labourers, mostly belonging from the local adivasi community. He didn’t support the idea of grabbing their agricultural lands and on the top, gave them 20 percent share of the coal khadaan. This brought him in contact with the adivasi leader, Mandi.
In an heated confrontation and argument, Shyam killed a police officer. This resulted in him going behind the bars, at a time when he had a newborn child and wife Jamuna. But he mysteriously dies inside the jail.
2024: Now, Mohan has become a rich industrialist in that region through the illegal coal syndicate and has also gained monopoly over the mines. He gently offers Shyam’s son Madhu to join his lead team, who is just a coal transporter now. This does not go well with Makhan, Mohan’s son who had hoped to inherit his father’s business .With the passage of time, as Madhu becomes one of Mohan’s most trusted people, he gets to know the reason behind his father’s death. Madhu now wants to take revenge against the atrocities committed against his father.
In the end, it is revealed that Mohan was the main culprit behind his father’s death. Mohan, who was jealous of Shyam mixed sleeping pills in Shyam’s food due to which Shyam went into deep sleep. During this opportunity, Mohan strangulated him to death, about which Shyam was totally unaware since he was in deep sleep and in order to prevent suspicion, Mohan arranged the incident like as if Shyam committed suicide.
Madhu upon hearing this gets enraged and kills Mohan just like Shyam was once killed. With Mohan removed, Madhu becomes the unchallenged crime boss of the coal mines.
Last Updated: August 20, 2025 at 13:00
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