Baadshah | Has It Aged Well? Ft. Dhruv Deshpande

Put on your chipkali shoes, grab a walnut and make sure your owl eyes are in place because this week we're talking about the mad Shahrukh Khan comic caper from 1999 Baadshah. Joining Urjita and Abbas for the episode is (not Mastaan) screenwriter Dhruv Deshpande. Topics discussed include: The comedic actors of the 90s and why Bollywood ran out of them, is this movie a spoof?, why this film works despite being "inspired" by half a dozen Hollywood films, The SRK-Johnny Lever chemistry, Twinkle Khanna's weird hairstyle choices, the iconic comedic set pieces of the film. Gayatri Bachchan's real-life inspiration(?), Amrish Puri being Amrish Puri and a lot lot more.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introductions
05:08 - Break 1
06:28 - First Memories
07:29 - Plot Recap
11:05 - The Universe of Abbas Mustan Rip Offs
12:11 - Why Baadshah was Ahead of its Time
18:23 - The Club Scene
19:16 - Does Bollywood Copy Hollywood?
21:42 - Bollywood Comedy Actors
27:02 - Baadshah: A Spoof?
31:43 - Baadshah's Office Being A Floating Set
33:01 - Some Funny Jokes
35:10 - Break 2
36:51 - Neeraj Vora
39:08 - Twinkle Khanna
42:17 - Urjita's Impossible Quiz
45:16 - Sharat Saxena
50:30 - Twinkle Khanna & Shah Rukh Arc
51:36 - Johnny Lever
52:32 - The Akhrot Thing & Plot Twists
56:44 - Writing in Baadshah
58:44 - Rewatchibility Scale
01:02:00 - Goodbye
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[@hridip567]

So many underrated funny moments like the one where Shahrukh is humming “dooby dooby doo samose mein aloo” while listening to some song on his walkman. 😂

[@aviarora6185]

TT yaha chocolate bechta hai ? Wafer bhi hoga nahi ??

[@shravanaragula4877]

Also there was where shahrukh sang main toh hoo pagal while crossing a dog and Sharat tries copying 😂😂😂😂

[@MoreFriesplease]

Im not the only one who loves it😅

[@hitarthdesai2759]

The best thing about Baadshah for me is that it is full absurd and absolutely crazy with its humour but it never lets go of the believability of the plot. Like, I'm scared along with Baadshah when he's trying to tell the CM that she is going to be killed and her husband finds out. Directors like Farhad Samji are writing and making things with random absurd humour but they never land on the emotion, it is always about the joke and never about its place in the film. Baadshah got that ekdum right.

[@urjitawani.]

💯💯💯

[@omjha8602]

I watched this movie 4 times in a span of two days when I was 11 or 12....kisi na kisi channel pe ye movie deta hi rhta tha bachpan me 😂😂

[@dashkanishka]

Badshaah - My rating 10/10 No 90's kid can rate this one lesser. The most watched movie of it's time, albeit on TV. It is a genre defining movie, per se.

[@TheShanshuk]

18:00 its the DEFENCE MINISTER 🤣

[@charchitacharya9477]

This is the only movie that I feel abbaas really liked out of most movies you guys cover, he was like how Kumar Varun is , when talking about Yuva Wrote this mid-video , and then the "diva" gave a solid 7

[@urjitawani.]

Hahahahahah

[@DushyantShrikhande]

I feel like Baadshah and even duplicate were some of Shahrukh Khan's first attempts at comedic roles (as far as I know). My theory is that he learned from these first experiences and then changed his comedic style to be less PG/childlike and more teen/adult oriented in the movies he made in the 2000s

[@urjitawani.]

Oooh that actually makes sense! Now that I think of it, SRK didn’t retain any of those childish/innocent gimmicks in the later part of his career

[@DushyantShrikhande]

@@urjitawani. I wonder if he's ever talked about this in any interviews.

[@bijoybiswas1932]

​@@urjitawani.kzbin.info/www/bejne/in6mioagiLOSo9ksi=sOTAK63W55swzMMG

[@sharam5614]

We watched badshaah in theater and my favourite part was this newly married (assuming) couple screaming and fighting.

[@abbasmomin]

They must not have passed the akhrot test.

[@n10rai36]

Sharukhs best comedy performance ever .......after that he just never did this type of movie..........he was lit in ds movie

[@divesh613]

that Title song is LIT

[@bhharsh]

Talking of Abbas Mustan, you folks need to do Aitraaz 🤣🤣 it's impossible to believe that movie released in the same year as Hum Tum, Yuva, Lakshya :D

[@divesh613]

All i can remember is hirny Priyanka and Song Gila Gila

[@bhaaratsharma6023]

This is such an amazing series guys. You just can't get bored listening to you guys

[@dia606]

You guys have inspired me to watch Baadshah - never watched it fully when it was on tv back then

[@urjitawani.]

Yasss! ❤

[@foolnakul]

It was neither Chief nor Home Minister it was Defence Minister.. Altleasy a Dozen Times the word Defence Minister/ Raskha Mantri was used throughout the 2nd Half ...

[@rishabhaniket1952]

I wonder how this girl gets to the podcast.Her interruptions are jarring, she often curbs the flow of conversation and asks questions like these.

[@MoreFriesplease]

She was Goa ki cm

[@shreyaspasricha2407]

Manikchand ka naam suna hai? Roz khaa ke thookte hain was the best line in this movie. 😂😂

[@minerva4539]

It’s not copied, different scenes are inspired but it has such a great use of those.

[@mohdharissiddiqui1602]

A woman Chief Minister on target of killers which involves her own security guards is so meta from 1984. But for a change the Sikh bodyguard is the only one who's loyal to her and dies saving her life.

[@dipankarjoshi3828]

The reason it didn't work cause it was the second collaboration of abbas mastan and srk and people expected another baazigar type experience but when they watched this, they were cconfused.

[@hspraj]

Baadshah was a fun experience, but even as a child when I watched it, I had wished that the story would have placed more emphasis on the detective agency, where they solve multiple cases, rather than taking a serious tone.

[@MoreFriesplease]

A good series could come out of it

[@manishmishraji]

Wo podcast jo sabse alag hai..

[@devalrex]

This was a fun episode!

[@MoreFriesplease]

10/10 film 100 for the podcast. I was smiling throughout 😅

[@nitpro]

Favorite Shahrukh Khan movie... ❤

[@2306indra]

You guys should do an episode for "Phir bhi dil hai hindustani".... a movie much more relevant today

[@dhawwal]

I watched Baadshah in theatres❤, had so much fun watching it. I still remember very few people were in the hall because at the time I assume people didn't knew about the action-comedy genre.

[@bhharsh]

The Main to hoon Paagal song was by Javed Akhtar, doston.. Sameer is not good enough to write such a whacky song :D

[@divesh613]

Sameer is very overrated..he never experimented much ....same old urdu words in lyrics

[@B1it3krieg]

Love this series so much! and because of this I watched Baadshah . Have you covered bade miyaan chhote miyaan?

[@nikhiljoshi5288]

it was the Defense Minister in Rang De Basanti. Played by Mohan Agashe.

[@urjitawani.]

Yes, my bad. Thank you for pointing out! :)

[@moviesjust1740]

Deepak tijori was only in khiladi & Badshah of Abbas-Mustan

[@minerva4539]

Very entertaining movie, despite watching so many times it’s always fun

[@DhruvDeshpande]

❤❤

[@zkaps463]

Fun episode

[@AllTimeBollywoodFan]

That Sushmita trivia is wrong. Abbas Mustan clarified in one interview

[@debankanm]

You missed another lift at 27:03 . The Badshah singing and escaping from the police sequence is a direct lift from "The Mask" (my name is Samba Pete song)

[@jaitdas3582]

Bro I was shouting RDB at the screen when Urjita asked that question 😂

[@moviesjust1740]

Where is today's episode

[@SuhasNaikOfficial]

Another rip off that Abbas missed was from The Mask - the dance song with cops was taken from the mask dancing with cops, charming them enough to dance and have fun with him.

[@Nihilist_Rohan]

Urjita looks cutie. Don't know in real life how she looks.

[@moviesjust1740]

That movie is Chup chup ke Not chhup chhup ke

[@AnkitGupta-th7wr]

Dil bechara was an official remake of tfios…

[@rachit1042]

So we're supposed to call blind people visually challenged?

[@Eatwithkaranvlogs]

It’s the defence minister

[@amritananda6804]

Do yes boss

[@surajitsarma1782]

The beginning I thought a cat was crying

[@aadeshiyengar7490]

Fun fact: Nick of time was first remade in Telugu already in 1998 named “Pape na Pranam” , and then Baadshah came out in 1999.

[@kaushiksivaraman5203]

Ye abbas ko french cinema hi pasand aayega

[@random150578]

Rang de Basanti

[@IVMPop]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6vYhpp_iLGAhdEsi=Yj7jwN3c-5XI3zMV

[@rohitp8900]

Copy of ‘NICK OF TIME’….

[@bhharsh]

Abbas... I get it that you want to discuss the ethical aspects of copying or borrowing plot elements... but if possible, please do save those 'heavy' topics for the last segment? I love Baadshah (like I love most films discussed here)... I love both of you for being so much fun... but I want to first hear more about THE FILM itself. No offence meant, just a sincere fan making suggestions while rooting for this show to be much more popular. Cheers.

[@abbasmomin]

No :)

[@rohitp8900]

The inspiration and copied/remade part should be put out first and then of course we can talk of the additions the filmmaker and writer made. Atleast in such podcasts, the source material should get a nod. I appreciate abbas doing it every time.

[@vikramrai4136]

Urjita is really so UNFUNNY… I cringe every time when she speaks

[@Ss-gs2es]

Gareebo ka Judwaa.. Salman did better than srk

[@yashgupte3117]

Is it just me or is Dhruv's voice uncanny to Anmol's from @TriedRefusedProductions

[@shrikantshingate2283]

[@shrikantshingate2283]

One of the TOP HIAW episode...