Hear me out: KGF rewrite but Rocky actually has more emotions than the rageful twelve year old boy that never really grew up. He cares viciously about his kingdom and it's not the gold that's the reason. It is because these are his people, the people of poverty who were neglected by an entire country, left to be slaved by cruel greedy men.
They gave us all of two throwaway scenes in KGF2 of him being a good king, of being one with his people and then never showed it again. Those two scenes had more potential and depth than the entire Rocky x Reena saga had
Just Rocky meeting Ramika Sen head on with righteous fury because India has no right to claim a place wrought with blood of it's neglect, land that belongs to the blood of the children that were killed on it. India failed those children. Rocky won't. And so his character grows. Because it slowly stops becoming about the gold he promised his mother, because obviously he had tonnes of it now. It becomes about the survivors of the hellscape and they become his gold.
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now, I understand the enraged 12 year old but i dont think that he never grew up. Let's take a lil walk on his conditions in his developing years- mom died early after instilling a dream, grew up fighting for food and a place to sleep. He was considered under shetty's foot and shetty had to keep rocky under him because shetty knew how ruthless and alpha this guy is. Single handedly fighting the whole wide world, he became a sarcastic little bitch. Rocky is street smart, he's brave, he wants to do things everyone is terrified to do because he wants to be the "one and only", as he defines himself. Loneliness makes people have god complex.
Rocky cared about his kgf. And the people. He made a poor slum, people working in shit conditions into a well constructed state. Towers and houses and factories and uniforms and machineries. The people of kgf considered him a god for the basic necessities he provided them with- food, clothes, houses, medicines. Because when you are dragged from your warm home in coldness of lands wretched with blood of innocence, a warm meal and fabric enough to cover your body feels like a blessing. But in my opinion, rocky cared for the people also because he could kill garuda. So that people wanted to work for him in the mine. When the mass was scared to enter the mine, he himself lead the people there and worked with them. So that his work wouldn't stop.
They could have easily given more king rocky scenes of course, but the fact he was greedy might have faded. That man confessed being greedy, it's not my addition: "greed is good! greed is progress!". Like you said- he did it all for the promise he made to his mother, but he had tons of gold now and he should have kept the place running for the sake of people of narachi.
but rocky already made a plan- to get all the gold of centuries out in 2 years. It was narrated in the meeting when rocky blasted the rest all mines, employing work in them. Rocky became the king for himself. Because he wanted to be top of the world, not because his care and concern. In the end, he did share the hatred towards the rich misleading folks.
This was the original story that we saw and my opinion on it. rocky died/disappeared before his character developed. The best irony that i found in this story was- his goal was given by a woman, his weakness became a woman, and he died because of a woman. Probably if he didn't die, he would have became the character you wanted him to be.
But maybe not- he was just making people work for him without violating the basic human need. Rocky always kept his promise and revenge for unfair practices he faced before his conscience. If Rocky was such a good man, he would have let the people go at the beginning only. But keeping them for extraction was his greed and goal that came with the responsibility of being the king- they lived in the houses built for them after kgf closed down.
I could be wrong, this is just my take on kgf and his character. Feel free to add your point!
