Journalist Anand Ingalagi's book El Dorado, which detailed the events at the Kolar Gold Fields (K.G.F) between 1951 and 2018, was banned by the Indian government,
but a television news channel procures a copy and interviews him.
Government officials discovered gold ore in southern Mysore State in 1951. On the same day, Raja "Rocky" Krishnappa Bairya was born
to a poor underage Shantamma. Suryavardhan, a powerful crime boss, who
accompanied them has the officials killed and leases the land for 99 years
under the pretext of running Narachi, a limestone mine, but secretly establishes K.G.F. He had five associates:
Kamal, son of Suryavardhan's former associate Bhargav; Rajendra Desai, who
oversees the transportation of refined gold bars; Andrews, who oversees
the gold smuggling in the Western Coast of the country;
Guru Pandian, president of the in-government DYSS party; and Adheera,
Suryavardhan's brother who headed the K.G.F security. Suryavardhan suffers a
paralysis and appoints his elder son Garuda the future heir of K.G.F.
Suryavardhan expected Adheera to serve as his son's aide, but Adheera
unsuccessfully attempts to assasinate Garuda. In turn, Garuda bombs
Adheera's car and he is presumed dead. Suryavardhan's former associates now
eye the riches of K.G.F. Rocky arrives in Bombay as a ten-year-old on a
quest for wealth and power as desired by Shantamma, and begins to work for
Shetty, a gold smuggler and Andrews' underboss, who competes against a
Dubai-based rival Inayat Khalil. Years later, he rises in the ranks and
oversees the arrival of 'African' gold bars to the Bombay coast. Rocky's
influence begins to rival Shetty's own. Andrews', who notices this, offers
him Bombay in return for assassinating Garuda.
Rocky accepts the offer and heads to Bangalore; he meets Desai's daughter Reena and falls for her and pursues her to
accept him, much to his fiancée Kamal's chagrin. A statue inaugration is
organised for luring Garuda out of K.G.F, but the attempt is averted even
before it begins. Rocky witnesses the authority and power that Garuda
commands. Seeing no other option to murder Garuda, Rocky journeys to K.G.F,
killing a unit of Garuda's henchmen to enter. The workers in K.G.F, who were
forcibly kidnapped, are subjected to inhumane conditions and treated as
slaves. Rocky becomes one of them and although apathetic at first, he is
moved by the cold-blooded murder of a mother and son by a guard. Rocky
stealthily accesses the map of the mine in the maintenance room during a
roll call and narrowly escapes death after a fellow slave sacrifices himself
to save the lives of his wife and unborn child. Andrews, Kamal and Desai are
misinformed about the incident and assume Rocky is killed.
Rocky engages in a fight with an entire unit of twenty-three guards,
killing each one of them to save a blind slave they were about to brutally
murder. With this act, Rocky emerges as a messiah in the slaves' eyes. He orders them to burn the guards' corpses to
let Andrews's and his men know he is still alive via their informants,
Kulkarni and Garuda's younger brother Virat. Garuda prepares to leave his
residence to investigate the fire and missing guards. To avert this, Virat
smothers Suryavardhan to death, and Garuda rushes back home. Shaken by the
recent bad turn of events, Garuda orders Maa Kaali's ritual to be rescheduled from the following week to the next day,
planning to kill his father's allies as soon as the ritual is complete. At
night, Rocky heads unsuspected through a tunnel to the site where Garuda has
decided to behead three slaves as offerings to the goddess, as Vanaram discovers that the third slave to be
beheaded was found dead inside his prison cell.
Upon Garuda's arrival and sacrifice of two slaves, a concealed Rocky, who
had taken the third slave's place, emerges and kills him. The ecstatic
slaves accept Rocky as their leader. Ingalagi concludes that Rocky
intentionally chose KGF as the location to assassinate Garuda, so that an
army of slaves would help him seize control. The narrator indicates,
however, that this is just the beginning. The news of Garuda's murder
reaches Ramika Sen, a no-nonsense politican. Adheera, who had survived the
incident, plans to resurface, and so does Khalil. As Vanaram orders his men
to attack Rocky and his army, a gunshot is heard.
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