{"id":5301,"date":"2016-03-13T05:34:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T00:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5301"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:04:21","slug":"baadshah-o-baadshah-action-comedy-shah-rukh-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5301","title":{"rendered":"Baadshah O Baadshah: 21 Years On, This Silly Action-Comedy is Our Go-To Film When We Just Need a Freakin\u2019 Laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\">\n\n<span class=\"dropcap\">Y<\/span>ou might like or hate an Abbas-Mustan film, but it\u2019s almost impossible that you could forget an Abbas-Mustan film. In a career spanning over two decades, the director duo, irrespective of what you might make of their filmmaking capabilities, have become a sort of an alternative genre of Hindi cinema, if not a secretly enjoyable institution. The brothers \u2013 hardly ever found more than five inches apart from each other, always championing the virtues of freshly ironed, white outfits \u2013 boast of an oeuvre that spans Indianised remakes of Hollywood suspense thrillers. These are films that remain distinguishable by how comical they are in intent, and at times, even in accomplishment. That\u2019s not to say that they haven\u2019t made compelling cinema or influenced the mainstream Bollywood narrative: With <i>Baazigar<\/i> (a remake of <i>A Kiss Before Dying<\/i>), they moulded an image of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/shahrukh-khan-zero-dwarf\/\">Shah Rukh Khan<\/a> \u2013 then stereotyped as chocolate boy \u2013 as the villain, uncovering a side of him that made a case for the actor\u2019s versatility.\n\n<\/div>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But when you look at their filmography as a whole, it\u2019s evident that any Abbas-Mustan film is often frivolity. These are after all, movies which derive tension from murders and conspiracies hidden inside tales of wife-swapping in exotic locations (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ajnabee<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), love-triangles on a cruise-ship (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Humraaz<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), or aggressive sibling rivalries (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Race<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). It\u2019s possibly why even loyal fans of these movies insist on coating their fondness as a sort of \u201cironic\u201d appreciation, so as to not invite objections about the quality of their personal taste. Although that disclaimer is often redundant given that you rarely enjoy an Abbas-Mustan film for reasons that aren\u2019t embarrassing. And there\u2019s no other film that lives up to that reputation in the truest sense than <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baadshah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a comic action thriller starring Shah Rukh Khan and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/twinkle-khanna-mallika-dua-controversy-akshay-kumar-the-great-indian-laughter-challenge-mrs-funnybones-casual-sexism\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twinkle Khanna<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which completes 21 years this week.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">True to tradition, the plot of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baadshah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 inspired from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nick of Time<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If Looks Could Kill<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 can be summed up in one line. It revolves around an assassination attempt that is eventually thwarted by the titular Badshaah (Khan), a puerile private detective, who is high on style, but low on clients. The film boasts of the usual Abbas-Mustan tropes: there\u2019s an unsettling last-minute revelation of a betrayal, reversal of sides, a case of mistaken identities, memorable villains, questionable sartorial choices, bizarre references (It claims Clint Eastwood is Bill Clinton\u2019s secretary at one point) and a reliance on gags to fill in gaps in the plot. It\u2019s an exaggerated film universe that comes replete with clumsy men and women, who talk in a sing-song cadence spewing one-liners and whose default <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/why-do-men-spread-their-legs-and-women-cross-theirs\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">body language<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is melodrama.<\/span>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53880\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1567061431.jpg\" alt=\"baadshah\" width=\"725\" height=\"407\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>And there\u2019s no other film that lives up to that reputation in the truest sense than Baadshah, a comic action thriller starring Shah Rukh Khan and Twinkle Khanna, which completes 21 years this week.<\/p>\n<p>Venus Records &#038; Tapes\/ B4U Entertainment<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even two decades later, the reason most people still remember <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/badshah-honey-singh-eminem-bollywood-india-hip-hop\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Badshaah<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is due to its wholehearted commitment to ridiculousness. For almost three hours, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Badshaah <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is one vivid set-piece, made up of multiple smaller set-pieces that rely on the unending confusion elicited by a game of mistaken identities, masquerading as a movie. Both the CBI, who is hell-bent on stopping the impending attack against Gayatri Bachchan (Rakhee), the saint-like Chief Minister of Goa, and Suraj Singh Thapar (Amrish Puri), the scheming business tycoon who wants her dead, make missteps while trying to outwit each other because the agent tasked with executing the mission \u2013 Operation Ma \u2013 happens to be code-named \u201cBadshaah\u201d as well.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Connections and phone-lines intersect. And at one point, both of them mistake the private detective as their own agent, resulting in hilarious unintended consequences, one of which culminates into a gag where Baadshah cluelessly drives a car without knowing how its complicated and technologically advanced buttons work. In fact, much of the film\u2019s runtime is dedicated to such <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/wish-upon-pranks-horror\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pranks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baadshah <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">opens with a cheesy set-piece about gambling and includes a prank about a girl being referred to as \u201cBachchi\u201d actually turning out to be a child.\u00a0<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Even two decades later, the reason most people still remember Baadshah is due to its wholehearted commitment to ridiculousness.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s the kind of silliness that doesn\u2019t think twice before going all in. Take the fact that Badshaah, who is petrified of dogs, is made to stop midway in fear when he spots a dog while beating up one of the film\u2019s villains \u2013 the scene effortlessly flits between serious to outrageous. Or the picturisation of the title track, a perennial earworm, which involves Khan dressing up in a silver foil and black outfit, that can only be described as a parody of outfits. Or even, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Badshaah\u2019s <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">litany of cheesy gadgets that united the whole country in its appreciation, like a pair of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/invisibles\/girl-behind-kaala-chasma-bollywood\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sunglasses<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a reflection of cards on them which were used to pull the film\u2019s first prank or magnetic shoes that helped the detective climb a wall sideways.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than anything then, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baadshah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is proof that no one pulls off excess or has unadulterated fun while doing so, the way Abbas-Mustan do. The film\u2019s opening 20 minutes, that comprise the introduction of Baadshah is evidence enough: The sequence starts off with an upside down shot of a jeep pulling in at Club Royale, that instantly fixes itself in the next moment. It\u2019s followed by dramatic shots of footsteps, soundtrack to pulsating music, a rotating door, and finally Khan, emerging cooly donning a pair of black sunglasses indoors, fishing out a gun which he uses to\u2026 light his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/vice\/no-tobacco-day-smoking-habits-personality\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cigarette<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It\u2019s near impossible to not find yourself enjoying the leaps of logic that the film takes, despite yourself. Even though it hasn\u2019t aged in a way that demands close attention, watching <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Badshaah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, even now, is a deeply nostalgic exercise; an immediate hark back to the times when movies were all about an unabashed display of camp. There\u2019s something to be said about a film to manage to dominate pop-culture conversation \u2013 The nickname \u201cBaadshah\u201d stuck with Khan and the DIY \u201cMachhar\u201d version of the title track was a song that was sang by most kids \u2013 even before social media made memes out of movies.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps, the key to the film\u2019s endurance then, is not as much to do with decoding its credibility, but its ability to take us back to a time gone by. Most of us I\u2019m certain watched <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baadshah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> before we became <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/children-empathy-adults-beggars-life\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">adults<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, remaining either enthralled at the sheer ingenuity of its climax or sold on the idea of adding \u201cprivate detective\u201d to our list of aspirational professions. Maybe some films exist to remind us of the memory of the people we used to be when we first watched them. Even two decades on, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baadshah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> remains a kingly reminder of the time when frivolity was a fact.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You rarely enjoy an Abbas-Mustan film for reasons that are not embarrassing. There\u2019s no better evidence of that than Baadshah, a comic-action thriller that boasts of mistaken identities, magnetic shoes, and a private detective who is petrified of dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":5304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3114],"tags":[8839,9042,9043,1806,9044,9045,1479,2779,152,681],"class_list":["post-5301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bollywood","tag-20-years","tag-abbas-mustan","tag-action-comedy","tag-amrish-puri","tag-baadshah","tag-baadshah-o-baadshah","tag-baazigar","tag-humraaz","tag-shah-rukh-khan","tag-twinkle-khanna"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Baadshah O Baadshah: 21 Years On, This Silly Action-Comedy is Our Go-To Film When We Just Need a Freakin\u2019 Laugh<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You rarely enjoy an Abbas-Mustan film for reasons that are not embarrassing. There\u2019s no better evidence of that than Baadshah, a comic-action thriller that boasts of mistaken identities, magnetic shoes, and a private detective who is petrified of dogs.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5301\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Baadshah O Baadshah: 21 Years On, This Silly Action-Comedy is Our Go-To Film When We Just Need a Freakin\u2019 Laugh\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You rarely enjoy an Abbas-Mustan film for reasons that are not embarrassing. There\u2019s no better evidence of that than Baadshah, a comic-action thriller that boasts of mistaken identities, magnetic shoes, and a private detective who is petrified of dogs.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5301\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Arr\u00e9\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-03-13T00:04:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-07-17T16:04:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1567062002.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1520\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"850\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Arr\u00e9 Bench\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Baadshah O Baadshah: 21 Years On, This Silly Action-Comedy is Our Go-To Film When We Just Need a Freakin\u2019 Laugh\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"You rarely enjoy an Abbas-Mustan film for reasons that are not embarrassing. There\u2019s no better evidence of that than Baadshah, a comic-action thriller that boasts of mistaken identities, magnetic shoes, and a private detective who is petrified of dogs.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Arr\u00e9 Bench\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=5301#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=5301\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Arr\u00e9 Bench\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3162a11ec8fc96b1945b22a7db113076\"},\"headline\":\"Baadshah O Baadshah: 21 Years On, This Silly Action-Comedy is Our Go-To Film When We Just Need a Freakin\u2019 Laugh\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-13T00:04:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-07-17T16:04:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=5301\"},\"wordCount\":1168,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=5301#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.207.105.184\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/1567062002.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"20 years\",\"abbas mustan\",\"Action-Comedy\",\"Amrish Puri\",\"Baadshah\",\"Baadshah O Baadshah\",\"Baazigar\",\"Humraaz\",\"Shah Rukh Khan\",\"Twinkle Khanna\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Bollywood\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=5301\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=5301\",\"name\":\"Baadshah O Baadshah: 21 Years On, This Silly Action-Comedy is Our Go-To Film When We Just Need a Freakin\u2019 Laugh\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=5301#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=5301#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.207.105.184\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/1567062002.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-13T00:04:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-07-17T16:04:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3162a11ec8fc96b1945b22a7db113076\"},\"description\":\"You rarely enjoy an Abbas-Mustan film for reasons that are not embarrassing. There\u2019s no better evidence of that than Baadshah, a comic-action thriller that boasts of mistaken identities, magnetic shoes, and a private detective who is petrified of dogs.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=5301#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=5301\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=5301#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.207.105.184\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/1567062002.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.207.105.184\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/1567062002.jpg\",\"width\":1520,\"height\":850},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?p=5301#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Baadshah O Baadshah: 21 Years On, This Silly Action-Comedy is Our Go-To Film When We Just Need a Freakin\u2019 Laugh\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/\",\"name\":\"Arr\u00e9\",\"description\":\"In every person lies a creator and in every creator, an enterprise.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.201.39.237\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3162a11ec8fc96b1945b22a7db113076\",\"name\":\"Arr\u00e9 Bench\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/27785a75876f863a9969da540f665bb7d59053f4669b2653c29a6ffd987bcfbb?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/27785a75876f863a9969da540f665bb7d59053f4669b2653c29a6ffd987bcfbb?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/27785a75876f863a9969da540f665bb7d59053f4669b2653c29a6ffd987bcfbb?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Arr\u00e9 Bench\"},\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/13.207.105.184\\\/?author=30\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Baadshah O Baadshah: 21 Years On, This Silly Action-Comedy is Our Go-To Film When We Just Need a Freakin\u2019 Laugh","description":"You rarely enjoy an Abbas-Mustan film for reasons that are not embarrassing. There\u2019s no better evidence of that than Baadshah, a comic-action thriller that boasts of mistaken identities, magnetic shoes, and a private detective who is petrified of dogs.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5301","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Baadshah O Baadshah: 21 Years On, This Silly Action-Comedy is Our Go-To Film When We Just Need a Freakin\u2019 Laugh","og_description":"You rarely enjoy an Abbas-Mustan film for reasons that are not embarrassing. There\u2019s no better evidence of that than Baadshah, a comic-action thriller that boasts of mistaken identities, magnetic shoes, and a private detective who is petrified of dogs.","og_url":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5301","og_site_name":"Arr\u00e9","article_published_time":"2016-03-13T00:04:14+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-07-17T16:04:21+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1520,"height":850,"url":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1567062002.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Arr\u00e9 Bench","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Baadshah O Baadshah: 21 Years On, This Silly Action-Comedy is Our Go-To Film When We Just Need a Freakin\u2019 Laugh","twitter_description":"You rarely enjoy an Abbas-Mustan film for reasons that are not embarrassing. There\u2019s no better evidence of that than Baadshah, a comic-action thriller that boasts of mistaken identities, magnetic shoes, and a private detective who is petrified of dogs.","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Arr\u00e9 Bench","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5301#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5301"},"author":{"name":"Arr\u00e9 Bench","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/#\/schema\/person\/3162a11ec8fc96b1945b22a7db113076"},"headline":"Baadshah O Baadshah: 21 Years On, This Silly Action-Comedy is Our Go-To Film When We Just Need a Freakin\u2019 Laugh","datePublished":"2016-03-13T00:04:14+00:00","dateModified":"2026-07-17T16:04:21+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5301"},"wordCount":1168,"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5301#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1567062002.jpg","keywords":["20 years","abbas mustan","Action-Comedy","Amrish Puri","Baadshah","Baadshah O Baadshah","Baazigar","Humraaz","Shah Rukh Khan","Twinkle Khanna"],"articleSection":["Bollywood"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5301","url":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5301","name":"Baadshah O Baadshah: 21 Years On, This Silly Action-Comedy is Our Go-To Film When We Just Need a Freakin\u2019 Laugh","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5301#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5301#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1567062002.jpg","datePublished":"2016-03-13T00:04:14+00:00","dateModified":"2026-07-17T16:04:21+00:00","author":{"@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/#\/schema\/person\/3162a11ec8fc96b1945b22a7db113076"},"description":"You rarely enjoy an Abbas-Mustan film for reasons that are not embarrassing. There\u2019s no better evidence of that than Baadshah, a comic-action thriller that boasts of mistaken identities, magnetic shoes, and a private detective who is petrified of dogs.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5301#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5301"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5301#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1567062002.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1567062002.jpg","width":1520,"height":850},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5301#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Baadshah O Baadshah: 21 Years On, This Silly Action-Comedy is Our Go-To Film When We Just Need a Freakin\u2019 Laugh"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/#website","url":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/","name":"Arr\u00e9","description":"In every person lies a creator and in every creator, an enterprise.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/#\/schema\/person\/3162a11ec8fc96b1945b22a7db113076","name":"Arr\u00e9 Bench","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/27785a75876f863a9969da540f665bb7d59053f4669b2653c29a6ffd987bcfbb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/27785a75876f863a9969da540f665bb7d59053f4669b2653c29a6ffd987bcfbb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/27785a75876f863a9969da540f665bb7d59053f4669b2653c29a6ffd987bcfbb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Arr\u00e9 Bench"},"url":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?author=30"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1567062002.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5303,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions\/5303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}