Moothon ending explained: What happened to Akbar "Bhai" and Mulla

Moothon was a 2019 Malayalam and Hindi crime drama film that was directed by Geetu Mohandas. movie was also released internationally as  Elder One. film starred Nivin Pauly, Shashank Arora, Sobhita Dhulipala, Melissa Raju Thomas, Sanjana Dipu, and Roshan Maw. All Hindi dialogues were given by Anurag Kashyap. movie even premiered at  2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Moothon had some confusing elements that are still t understood by fans. Here is an explanation for Moothon's ending scene. 

Moothon ending explained

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To understand ending of Moothon, one first needs to understand basic plot of film. Moothon tells story of a 14-year-old child named Mulla, who travels from Lakshadweep to Mumbai in search of his lost elder bror. teenr somehow mand to climb onto a passing boat and reaches Mumbai. Once in Mumbai, Mulla is sent to an orphan where he befriends a boy named Raju. 

Raju tells Mulla to look for his mor, Rosi. Mulla n leaves orphan and finds Raju's estranged mor. Rosi helps Mulla settle in Mumbai and gives him a job of selling tea. Eventually, Mulla is kidnapped by a child and drug trafficker called "Bhai". However, it turns out that Bhai is actually Mulla lost bror Akbar. Mulla does t recognise his bror, but Akbar quickly finds out who Mulla truly is.

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Akbar n tells Mulla to stay indoors at all times. That is when it is revealed that Mulla is actually a girl, t a boy. A boy tices this and immediately falls in love with Mulla. film n shifts to Akbar's backstory. It is revealed that Akbar fell in love with a man named Ameer. Ameer is forced to marry someone else, but he wants to move to Mumbai along with Akbar. When Akbar refuses to come with him, Ameer takes his own life.

Back in present, Akbar asks his sister Aamina to take care of Mulla, but Aamina refuses. Akbar is n threatened by his boss, who is enrd that Mulla lost one of his drug packs. To get on good side of his boss, Akbar takes on an even bigger assignment. He is ordered to transfer a huge amount of money to a middleman. However, mission fails after ar gang attacks m. Akbar is n arrested by police. 

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Akbar's associate, Salim n sells off Mulla to a brol home. Akbar soon gets out of prison and finds out about what Salim has done. Akbar n hunts down Salim and forces Salim to take him to his sister. In final scene of film, Akbar sees silhouette of a girl who he thinks is Mulla. However, he is shot and killed before he can speak to girl. 

ending of Moothon is t a happy one. It is implied that Akbar's sister Mulla was sold off by Salim before he got out of prison. So he never got to meet his sister before dying. Meanwhile, final scene confirms that Mulla is w in a brol, as she is visited by same boy who fell in love with her when it was revealed that she was a girl. 

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[Promo from Moothon trailer]