Baby John’s ending hinges on the faceoff between DCP Satya Verma and Nanaji AKA Babbar Sher. Other than having his fingers in a lot of pies, Babbar Sher is the head of an international human trafficking racket, while his son, Ashwin, is a serial rapist. When Ashwin molests and murders a schoolgirl named Amba, Satya retaliates by killing Ashwin. Nanaji hits back by attacking Satya while he is meeting his beloved Meera and her family. Then Satya humiliates Nanaji and throws him in jail. [Spoiler Alert] After a few years, Nanaji walks out a free man and shoots Satya, Meera, and Satya’s mother, and leaves Satya and Meera’s daughter, Khushi, to drown. Satya’s mother dies on the spot, Satya and Meera are fatally wounded, and Khushi is barely breathing. While she is on her last legs, Meera forces Satya to save Khushi and then resign from his job to focus only on Khushi. So, Satya fakes his death and moves to Kerala with Khushi, where he goes by the name of John. After a random run-in with some of the goons involved in Nanaji’s flesh trade, Satya’s identity is exposed. Hence, Nanaji reenters Satya’s life, abducts Khushi and Tara (Khushi’s teacher and a covert special agent), along with several other women. Does John save his daughter and all the other victims of Nanaji’s reign of terror? Does Nanaji die? Also, what the hell is the purpose of that Salman Khan cameo? Let’s discuss.
Baby John Saves Khushi and the Girls
After the attack on Khushi’s life, Satya puts his baking duties to the side and starts working on dismantling Nanaji’s nexus while spreading the rumor that it’s Satya’s ghost that’s functioning like an avenging angel. The first guy who gets gutted by Baby John (Satya) is Samba, an associate of Babbar Sher, who oversees his operations in Kerala with the help of Boss. Then he goes after Inspector Baldev Patil because he is instrumental to the lack of proper registration and investigation into the cases of missing girls. After that, Satya targets all the nefarious pockets where Nanaji’s goons work from and brings Nanaji to his knees. To get the upper hand again, Nanaji sends Bhima Rane to take care of an accident at a construction site, knowing full well that he is going to spend the night there, drunk out of his mind. That’ll make him the perfect target for Satya, who does fall for the trap, thereby giving Nanaji the opportunity to attack Tara and Ram Sevak (Satya’s former assistant and currently his friend) and abduct Khushi. By the time Satya learns what has happened, Nanaji (with some navigational aid from DGP Yashraj Mukherjee) has already thrown Khushi and Tara into a container full of women, which will be taken to a foreign country via a cargo ship. Satya pleads with Nanaji to let his daughter go. Of course, Nanaji doesn’t oblige and brutally beats up Satya until he loses consciousness. At the same time, Khushi motivates the girls in the container to destabilize it in order to expose their position to Satya. After a visit from Meera’s ghost, Satya regains his bearings, beats up Nanaji and his goons, and rescues Khushi and all the girls.
Babbar Sher Is Probably Not Dead
Satya, Khushi, and Tara approach Nanaji because Khushi wants to have a word with the monster. Khushi says that she understands that Nanaji is the way he is because of the circumstances he was born into. She even accepts that Nanaji wouldn’t have taken such a drastic step and killed Meera if his rapist son hadn’t been killed by Satya. All she wants now, though, is a straight apology from Nanaji because he has put her and her father through hell. Nanaji refuses to budge, and Khushi tells Satya to help the old-timer understand what she means in a language that he understands before leaving the scene with Tara. Satya underscores the fact that despite losing her mother at such a young age, Khushi has the heart to simply ask for an apology. Maybe that’ll allow Khushi to move on, or maybe Khushi thinks that it’ll cleanse Nanaji’s soul. Either way, Khushi doesn’t harbor any malicious feelings because she has been brought up right by Satya, which is something that Satya loudly professes. Meanwhile, due to Nanaji’s poor parenting skills, his son turned out to be a rapist, and Satya uses that to make a point about how kids don’t become that way because they’re born that way; parenting plays a key role in their psychological development. All that falls on deaf ears, and Nanaji tells Satya to kill him, because if he doesn’t, he’ll continue to come after Satya and his family.
Hence, in Baby John’s ending, Satya unleashes all the girls that Nanaji was about to traffic so that he gets a taste of his own medicine. But Kalees lets the audience imagine what the girls did to Nanaji instead of showing it in great detail (like he did during the death scenes of Amba and Ashwin). Now, not to rain on Baby John’s parade, but why does he think that a bunch of girls can kill Nanaji? I mean, we’ve seen what he is capable of even though he looks like a bag of bones. So, is it really a smart move to not make sure that Nanaji is gone for good? I don’t think so. Also, what’s up with the “dedicated to all fathers” quote? Wasn’t that final conversation about how not all fathers are built the same—some are good at parenting, and some are horrible? I think that quote should’ve had a disclaimer that “terms and conditions apply.”
Agent Bhai Jaan Meets Baby John
Baby John’s mid-credits revealed that the international human trafficking network that Nanaji was working for has been completely dismantled, and DGP Yashraj Mukherjee is the only remaining member of his nexus. Mukherjee has nabbed “Agents” Baby John, Baby Tara, and Baby Jackie (yes, Ram Sevak is somehow alive after taking a brutal beating from Nanaji’s goons), collectively known as the Ghost Gang, and he presents them in front of the notable members of the aforementioned trafficking network who are operating from a dilapidated fishing vessel. Another member of this Ghost Gang is revealed to be Agent Bhai Jaan, played by Salman Khan, and in a scene that’s quite reminiscent of the forest fight from Pushpa: The Rise, he kills all the traffickers. Satya plunges a dagger into Mukherjee’s chest and kills him. Then, Bhai Jaan tasks Tara with remotely detonating the bombs that he has supposedly placed all over the ship. And as the credits roll, Salman and Varun break the fourth wall to greet the audience with everything from Happy Christmas to Happy Today, whatever that is. When they’re done, the ship explodes. That can mean two things: all the “agents” are dead because Tara has prematurely set off the explosives, or they’ve made it out of there alive so that they can take down all the other branches of this women trafficking network.
Yes, this scene is supposed to be a tease for the film that Salman is going to do with Atlee, but that’s about it. There’s no real information that it provides. There’s not a hint of what the story of this hypothetical sequel is going to be. There’s no sign if the movie will actually happen. Atlee is going around hyping the hell out of this cameo, but it’s a nothingburger scene until there’s an official update of whether or not the next film in this potential franchise will be Baby John 2 or Agent Bhai Jaan. At this point, Agent Bhai Jaan can be Khan’s character from Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan because he was also called Bhaijaan in that film. Anyway, did you like or dislike Baby John’s ending and that mid-credits scene? Let me know in the comments.
