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{{Infobox film
| name = Mardaani 2
| image = Mardaani 2 Film poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Gopi Puthran
| producer = [[Aditya Chopra]]
| writer = Gopi Puthran
| starring = [[Rani Mukerji]]<br>[[Vishal Jethwa]]
| music = '''Score:'''<br>John Stewart Eduri
| cinematography = Jishnu Bhattacharjee
| editing = Monisha Baldawa
| studio = [[Yash Raj Films]]
| distributor = Yash Raj Films
| released = {{film date|df=yes|2019|12|13|ref1=<ref name=":mr2"/>}}
| runtime = 103 minutes<ref>{{cite web | url=https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/mardaani-2-2019 | title=Mardaani 2 (2019) | website=[[British Board of Film Classification]] | access-date=12 December 2019}}</ref>
| language = [[Hindi]]
| country = [[India]]
| budget = {{INR}}20 crore<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/box-office-special-features/box-office-economics-rani-mukherji-starrer-mardaani-2-makes-approx-25-cr-profit-yash-raj-films|title=Rani Mukherji starrer Mardaani 2 makes approx. 25 cr. in profit for Yash Raj Films|website=Bollywood Hungama|access-date=6 January 2020}}</ref>
| gross = {{INR}}67.12 crore<ref name="bo">{{cite web|url=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/mardaani-2/box-office/#bh-movie-box-office|title=Mardaani 2 Box Office|website=Bollywood Hungama|access-date=17 January 2020}}</ref>
}}

'''''Mardaani 2''''' is a 2019 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[action thriller film]]<ref name="auto2">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/mardaani-2-v720481|title=Mardaani 2 (2019)|website=[[AllMovie]]}}</ref> and a [[sequel]] to the 2014 film ''[[Mardaani]]''. It is directed by Gopi Puthran who wrote the previous film, marking his directorial debut, and backed by [[Aditya Chopra]] through [[Yash Raj Films]], with [[Rani Mukerji]] reprising her role of police officer Shivani Shivaji Roy from the previous film. The plot follows her attempts to catch a 21-year-old rapist and murderer, played by newcomer [[Vishal Jethwa]].<ref name="auto2"/><ref name="timesnow">{{cite web |last1=Khandelwal |first1=Khush |title=Mardaani 2, the sequel to Rani Mukerji's Mardaani, goes on floors today - see photo |url=https://www.timesnownews.com/entertainment/news/bollywood-news/article/mardaani-2-the-sequel-to-rani-mukerjis-mardaani-goes-on-floors-today-see-photo/387805 |website=Times Now News |access-date=27 March 2019|date=24 March 2019}}</ref>

''Mardaani 2'' was announced on 10 December 2018 by a [[social media]] post.<ref name="hindu">{{cite news |title=Rani Mukerji's next is 'Mardaani 2' |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/rani-mukerjis-next-is-mardaani-2/article25708474.ece |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=28 March 2019|date=10 December 2018}}</ref> Filming began in March 2019 and was extensively done in [[Rajasthan]].<ref name="NDTV">{{cite news |last1=Goyal |first1=Divya |title=Mardaani 2 Is Rani Mukerji's Next Film After Hichki |url=https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/mardaani-2-is-rani-mukerjis-next-film-after-hichki-1960195 |access-date=27 March 2019 |work=NDTV |date=10 December 2018}}</ref> The first look was unveiled in April 2019 and release date was announced in September 2019. It was released on 13 December 2019 to generally positive response.<ref name="dna">{{cite news|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/bollywood/report-mardaani-2-rani-mukerji-s-film-finally-goes-on-floors-2732988|title='Mardaani 2': Rani Mukerji's film finally goes on floors|work=Daily News and Analysis|date=25 March 2019|access-date=27 March 2019}}</ref> The film performed successfully at the box office and earned a worldwide gross of {{INRConvert|671.2|m}}.<ref name="ht">{{cite web |title=Mardaani 2 first look: Rani Mukerji returns as Bollywood's most intense cop. See pic |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/mardaani-2-first-look-rani-mukerji-returns-as-bollywood-s-most-intense-cop-see-pic/story-oDYJrIRSZ4Gd3S2VMylrfL.html |website=Hindustan Times |access-date=27 March 2019|date=27 March 2019}}</ref>

==Plot==
The opening credits show Shivani Shivaji Roy ([[Rani Mukerji]]) clearing the UPSC exams in 2015 to become an [[Indian Police Service]] officer and starting work.

As the film opens in [[Kota, Rajasthan]], a 21-year-old psychopath, Sunny ([[Vishal Jethwa]]), kidnaps an outspoken young woman, Latika, by lying to her that her boyfriend, with whom she just argued, has met with an accident. He takes her to an isolated fort and brutally tortures and rapes her, then kills her. Shivani, who has been appointed as the new [[Superintendent of police (India)|Superintendent of Police]] of [[Kota, Rajasthan|Kota]] city in [[Rajasthan]] arrives at the crime scene and immediately clashes with her subordinate DSP Brij Shekhawat ([[Sumit Nijhawan]]) who is highly misogynistic in nature and detests the success of women. As Shivani examines the case, the brutality of the murder disturbs her and makes her more determined to catch the killer.

Sunny, who has actually come to Kota from [[Meerut]] on a killing contract given by politician Govind Mishra a.k.a Panditji ([[Prasanna Ketkar]]), sees Shivani on TV when she appears at a press conference and promises to find Latika's killer. He taunts her by sneaking into her home and stealing her sari, using it to kill a journalist Kamal Parihar ([[Anurag Sharma (actor)|Anurag Sharma]]); he also hires Pravin, a tea-seller near the local police station, to kill the journalist's wife, Aabha Parihar ([[Pariva Praniti]]) in a suicide blast, then takes Pravin's place as tea-seller to keep an eye on her, introducing himself as a mute boy named Bajrang.

When Shivani brings in Lahanya, a child from the slums who had witnessed the blast, Sunny kills him in the toilet. Following the media uproar on the presumed failure of the police department to catch the murderer, Shivani is set to be transferred from Kota. Since the new officer will come after 2 days, Shivani, along with her teammates Bharti, Anup and Vinay, decides to catch Sunny within these 2 days. Anup suggests Shivani to make peace with Shekhawat since his network of spies and informers is very strong in the city. Subsequently, Shivani agrees and requests Brij Shekhawat for help. Shekhawat leads them to his contact, a diamond merchant-cum-smuggler in Kota who reveals that the real mastermind behind the killing of Kamal Parihar is the youth politician Viplav Beniwal ([[Sunny Hinduja]]). He also provides Shivani with the whereabouts of Beniwal's right hand man Kunwar. Kunwar is arrested and brutally tortured into revealing the whereabouts of Sunny. Meanwhile, Sunny kidnaps a second bold, outspoken woman (who once slapped him because he was secretly recording her). The police track down Sunny at his hideout in an under construction building and discover her already raped and tortured but still alive and manage to save her.

Sunny, acting as Bajrang, deliberately wounds himself and gets a lift from Shivani. Before he can strangle her, Shivani stops him, having realized that Bajrang is Sunny. The two fight but Sunny escapes. Meanwhile, the police find out a video of Sunny escaping from a mob taken by a passenger in the bus, and Shivani immediately has it made viral on all social media platforms. Panditji refuses to provide any protection to Sunny. As a result, Sunny kidnaps Pandit's granddaughter Priyanka ([[Virti Vaghani]]) and threatens him of killing her in a bomb blast unless Shivani doesn't apologize to him in front of the media. Shivani and the Kota Police track down the missing girl at a warehouse, strapped with a bomb and manage to save her in the nick of time. This incident further fuels the media agitation against Shivani, which is lead by journalist Amit Sharma ([[Rajesh Sharma (actor)|Rajesh Sharma]]). Shivani agrees for an interview with Amit Sharma and speaks out against the challenges that women have to face on the work front every day. Subsequently, Shekhawat mends his ways and agrees to co-operate with Shivani. Shivani discovers that Sunny's next target is the female politician Sunanda ([[Richa Meena]]); having failed to kill Shivani, Sunny had warned her that he would instead kill someone like her. That night, amidst the Diwali celebrations, Shivani and her team search for him. Shivani discovers him in the house of a local couple, having taken their daughter and Sunanda hostage and torturing them. Shivani goes to confront him but is knocked unconscious and tied up.

When she awakes, Sunny is strangling Sunanda; to distract him, Shivani talks about his mother and his past, which she learned about from Sunny's father, who is imprisoned in [[Meerut]]. As a child, Sunny's father had tried to murder Sunny's mother, who had been an outspoken woman. In terror, Sunny's mother had hidden on the terrace, but Sunny told his father where she was hiding; his father then killed his mother. The guilt of his mother's death has since caused Sunny to become unhinged and take that anger out on other confident girls.

Shivani signals Sunanda and the other hostage to toss the nearby buckets of paint on Sunny, as he is asthmatic. She then gains the upper hand, beating. Enraged, Sunny with his own belt. She kicks him outside and continues beating him as the neighbourhood gathers to watch.

==Cast==
* [[Rani Mukerji]] as [[Superintendent (police)|SP]] Shivani Shivaji Roy
* [[Jisshu Sengupta]] as Dr. Vikram Bose Roy, Shivani's husband
*[[Vishal Jethwa]] as Shiv 'Sunny' Prasad Yadav & Bajrang Chaiwala{{clarify|reason=Is Bajrang a different character?|date=September 2020}}
* [[Shruti Bapna]] as Inspector Bharti Angare
* [[Rajesh Sharma (actor)|Rajesh Sharma]] as Amit Sharma
* Tejasvi Singh Ahlawat as Latika Agarwal, the girl who was raped in the first scene of the film
* Pratyksh Rajbhatt as Monty, Latika's friend
* [[Prasanna Ketkar]] as Politician Govind Mishra a.k.a Panditji, Sunny's boss{{clarify|reason=Is Panditji a different character?|date=September 2020}}
* [[Virti Vaghani]] as Priyanka, Panditji's granddaughter
* [[Anurag Sharma (actor)|Anurag Sharma]] as Journalist Kamal Parihar, Aabha's husband
* [[Sunny Hinduja]] as Viplav Beniwal
* [[Sumit Nijhawan]] as DSP Brij Shekhawat
* Richa Meena as Sunanda Chaudhary
* [[Vikram Singh Chauhan]] as Inspector Anup Singhal
* [[Deepika Amin]] as Dr. Harni Kapur, a [[Doctor (title)|doctor]] who operated on Latika
* [[Avneet Kaur]] as Meera, Shivani's niece
* Pariva Praniti as Aabha Parihar, Kamal's wife
* [[Garima Jain]] as Reporter
* Aanchal Srivastava as Tina
* Suresh Anand as Rawat
* Vishal Nath as Pravin
* Vishal Sudarshanwar as SHO Vinay Jaiswal
* [[Girish Sharma]] as Kunwar

==Production==
On 10 December 2018 [[Yash Raj Films]] announced on their official Twitter account the making of sequel to their hit film ''[[Mardaani]]'' to be directed and scripted by Gopi Puthran. Rani Mukerji is to reprise her role of Shivani Shivaji Roy of the last film.<ref name="NDTV"/> [[Vikram Singh Chauhan]]<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=https://www.abplive.in/television/mardaani-2-after-shruti-bapna-vikram-singh-chaudhan-joins-the-cast-of-rani-mukerjis-film-956701|website=ABP Live|title= Vikram Singh Chauhan joins the cast of Rani Mukerji's 'Mardaani 2'!|date=3 April 2019|access-date=4 April 2019}}</ref> and [[Shruti Bapna]]<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.abplive.in/television/mardaani-2-yeh-hai-mohabbatein-fame-tv-actress-shruti-bapna-bags-role-in-rani-mukerjis-film-952723|website=ABP Live|title= 'Yeh Hai Mohabbatein' fame Shruti Bapna bags role in Rani Mukerji's 'Mardaani 2'|date=29 March 2019|access-date=4 April 2019}}</ref> later on added to the cast.

===Filming===

The [[principal photography]] began on 27 March 2019. The official Twitter page of Yash Raj Films posted the announcement of beginning of the shooting and shared a picture from the sets of the film.<ref name="dna" /><ref name="ht" /> [[Rani Mukerji]] went to the second schedule of filming in the first week of May in [[Kota, Rajasthan|Kota]] and [[Jaipur]] in [[Rajasthan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/bollywood/mardaani-2-rani-mukerji-set-action-packed-schedule-rajasthan/|title=Mardaani 2: Rani Mukerji set for an action-packed schedule in Rajasthan|date=2019-04-24|website=Bollywood Hungama|language=en|access-date=2019-04-24}}</ref> Mukerji shooting in Rajasthan was battling in 42 °C temperature while filming fighting scenes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hindi.timesnownews.com/bollywood/bollywood/article/rani-mukherjee-shooting-mardani-2-in-rajasthan-beating-the-heat/419318|website= Times Now News 18|title=राजस्थान की भयानक गर्मी में मर्दानी-2 की शूटिंग कर रहीं रानी मुखर्जी, 42 डिग्री तापमान में कर रहीं एक्शन सीन्स|language=hi|date=15 May 2019|access-date=15 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://filmfare.com/news/bollywood/interesting-updates-from-the-sets-of-rani-mukerjis-mardaani-2_-33889.html|website=Filmfare|title=Interesting updates from the sets of Rani Mukerji's Mardaani 2|date=15 May 2019|access-date=15 May 2019|first=Raghuvendra|last=Singh}}</ref> The Rajasthan schedule of the film was wrapped up on 29 May.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/entertainment/bollywood-mardaani-2-rani-mukerji-bonds-with-crew-as-she-wraps-up-rajasthan-schedule-see-picture-523307/|title=Mardaani 2: Rani Mukerji bonds with crew as she wraps up Rajasthan schedule, see picture|website=India TV News|access-date=30 May 2019|date=29 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530042412/https://www.indiatvnews.com/entertainment/bollywood-mardaani-2-rani-mukerji-bonds-with-crew-as-she-wraps-up-rajasthan-schedule-see-picture-523307/|archive-date=30 May 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Release==
The film was released on 13 December 2019.<ref name=":mr2">{{cite web|url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/entertainment/bollywood/100819/confirmed-rani-mukerji-starrer-mardaani-2-to-release-on-this-date.html
|title=Confirmed: Rani Mukerji starrer 'Mardaani 2' to release on this date|website=The Deccan Chronicle|date=10 August 2019|access-date=10 August 2019}}</ref><ref name=":mr1">{{cite tweet|user=yrf| author=Yash Raj Films|date=10 August 2019|number = 1160053207646838784 |title=#Mardaani2 starring #RaniMukerji as Shivani Shivaji Roy releasing in theatres near you on 13th December 2019. #Mardaani2OnDecember13 | @Mardaani2 https://t.co/JZp3Numa2k}}</ref>

==Box office==

''Mardaani 2'' was released worldwide on 2105 screens. The film's opening day nett domestic collection was {{INR}}3.80 crore. In the next two days, it earned nett {{INR}}6.55 crore and {{INR}}7.80 crore respectively. It grossed ₹67.12 in worldwide areas, consisting of ₹56.63 crore (Indian gross) and ₹10.49 crore (overseas gross).<ref name="bo" />

==Awards and nominations==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Award
! Date of ceremony
! Category
! Recipient(s)
! Result
! class="unsortable"| {{nowrap|{{Abbr|Ref.|References}}}}
|-
|rowspan="3"|[[Filmfare Awards]]
|rowspan="3"|[[65th Filmfare Awards|15 February 2020]]
|[[Filmfare Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
|[[Rani Mukherjee]]
|{{nom}}
|rowspan="3"|<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/nominations-for-the-65th-filmfare-awards-are-out/articleshow/73881320.cms |title=Nominations for the 65th Amazon Filmfare Awards 2020 are out! – Times of India |website=The Times of India}}</ref>
|-
|[[Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut|Best Male Debut]]
|[[Vishal Jethwa]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Filmfare Award for Best Debut Director|Best Debut Director]]
|Gopi Puthran
|{{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Zee Cine Awards]]
| rowspan="2" |28 March 2020
| [[Zee Cine Critics Award for Best Actor – Female|Best Actress]]
|[[Rani Mukherjee]]
|{{nom}}
|rowspan="2"|<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.zee5.com/tvshows/details/zee-cine-awards-2020-march-22-2020/0-6-2524/zee-cine-awards-2020-march-22-2020/0-1-349301 |title=Zee Cine Awards 2020 |website=Zee5.com}}</ref>
|-
|[[Zee Cine Award for Best Male Debut|Best Male Debut]]
|[[Vishal Jethwa]]
|{{won}}
|}

==Sequel==

In December 2019, it was announced that [[Rani Mukerji]] is set to reprise her role in the third installment of ''Mardaani'' franchise titled ''Mardaani 3''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.asianage.com/amp/entertainment/bollywood/221219/mardaani-3-in-the-works.html|title=Mardaani 3 in the works|website=www.asianage.com}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|https://www.yashrajfilms.com/movies/mardaani-2}} by Yash Raj Films
*{{IMDb title|tt5668770}}
*[https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/mardaani-2/ Mardaani 2] on [[Bollywood Hungama]]

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