The story carries on from the previous film— Inspector Chulbul Pandey (Salman Khan)— in charge of a local police station in Kanpur and resides there with his wife Rajjo (Sonakshi Sinha), half brother Makkhi (Arbaaz Khan) and stepfather (Vinod Khanna). A boy gets kidnapped from a school therefore Chulbul deals with the problem. In Kanpur, an assassin murders a witness who is about to testify against a dreaded don. Chulbul tracks the assassin down, killing him at a coffeehouse. The don is Bachcha (Prakash Raj), a struggling politician. After several public altercations, Bachcha's brother Genda (Deepak Dobriyal) convinces him to get rid of Pandey, threatening Chulbul's stepfather to kill his entire family if Chulbul keeps on interfering in Bachcha's criminal activities.

Genda harasses a girl, arriving at her wedding to kidnap her. Chulbul arrives at the wedding and asks Genda to leave. Genda refuses to comply and continues to insult Chulbul. Chulbul breaks his neck, leading to his death. In the meantime his wife becomes pregnant, Pandey being advised by everybody to leave Bachcha alone for the sake of his family's safety. Bachcha, promising to avenge his brother's death, decides to do so before the election. He meets Rajjo and Makkhi while they are leaving a temple where Makkhi is shot by Bachcha and Rajjo is pushed off the temple stairs. However both of them survive with Rajjo having a miscarriage and suffering a head injury.

Chulbul is enraged at the loss of his first child. He enters Bachcha's location and kills all of his men. He tries to arrest Bachcha, but when Bachcha tries to tease him, he kills him instantly by grabbing a gun and shooting him with 2 bullets in the chest. Later, Chulbul and Rajjo have their first child, a baby boy. Right at the end, Chedi Singh's photographer (from the first film, Dabangg) arrives asking for a family photo. They all laugh and the photographer takes the picture.

• Salman Khan as Inspector Chulbul Pandey
• Sonakshi Sinha as Rajjo Pandey
• Arbaaz Khan as Makhanchand "Makkhi" Pandey
• Vinod Khanna as Prajapati Pandey
• Mahi Gill as Nirmala Pandey
• Prakash Raj as Thakur Bachcha Singh
• Nikitin Dheer as Chunni
• Deepak Dobriyal as Genda
• Gireesh Sahedev as Inspector Siddique
• Manoj Pahwa as Commissioner
• Flora Asha Saini in a cameo
• Sandeepa Dhar as Anjali
• Malaika Arora Khan in a special appearance in song "Pandeyji Seeti"
• Kareena Kapoor in a special appearance in song "Fevicol Se"
• Rashami Desai in cameo appearance in song "Dagabaaz Re"
• Nandish Sandhu in cameo appearance in song "Dagabaaz Re"
• Tinu Anand as master in special appearance
• Manoj Joshi as a shopkeeper in special appearance
• Nitesh Pandey as doctor in special appearance
• Pankaj Tripathi

Development

When director Abhinav Kashyap opted out of directing the sequel, Arbaaz Khan himself decided to helm the film. Prakash Raj was confirmed to have been chosen to play the main villain. Kareena Kapoor has been roped in to play an item number in the film, despite initial reports considering Katrina Kaif for the role.

In Feb 2012, it was reported that distribution rights were sold to UTV Motion Pictures for a price of ? 1.40 billion, the highest for a Bollywood film till date. But later UTV Motion Pictures reported the news as completely fake & nonsense. UTV Motion Pictures has brushed aside rumours of purchasing the rights of the sequel to Salman Khan-Sonakshi Sinha starrer, Dabangg 2 for ? 1.40 billion. The national emblem framed on the wall of Chulbul Pandey's police station was depicted incorrectly. Sensitive to the slightest abnormality pertaining to national sentiments, the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has asked producer-director Arbaaz Khan to simply blur the corner of the film's frames where the national emblem appears.

Filming

Shooting for the film began in March 2012. The producers announced plans to shoot the film in Kanpur. A set depicting the city of Kanpur was created at the Kamalistan Studios in Mumbai, where the first schedule of the film was shot. The entire studio was rented for the film, making it a first in Bollywood. The phase consisted of shooting a qawwali song under neon lights. Following the shoot, filming is expected to take place in film city in Mumbai. The last schedule has been planned to be shot at Satara. Three days after the film went on floors, it was reported that Salman Khan replaced cinematographer, K. K. Senthil Kumar, with Aseem Kumar. A song titled "Fevicol" was choreographed as a dance number and considered as an equivalent to "Munni Badnaam Hui" from Dabangg. Reports indicating that Salman would essay an important involvement in the director's role were dismissed by Arbaaz.

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The songs are composed by Sajid-Wajid while the lyrics were penned by Jalees Sherwani, Irfan Kamal & Sameer. There is an item song named "Fevicol Se" featuring Kareena Kapoor.

The film score is composed by Sandeep Shirodkar.

Track listing