Baadshah Khan falls in love with Benazir, a member of a rival clan who has defeated him in a game of buzkashi. Benazir will not marry him unless he brings back the head of her father's killer, Habibullah, from India. He is successful, but he must return to India. He is then tragically separated from Benazir through a series of incidents that are only resolved years later with the arrival of his daughter, Menhdi, and his release from prison.
Acting
Amitabh's Afghan warrior era — unhinged commitment.
Production
Actual Afghanistan shoot. Bollywood doesn't do this anymore.
Costume
Sridevi's Benazir: turban, kohl, devastating.
Director
Mukul Anand
Amitabh Bachchan
Baadshah Khan
Sridevi
Benazir / Mehndi
Shilpa Shirodkar
Insp. Henna Ranveer Sethi
Kiran Kumar
Pasha
Danny Denzongpa
Khuda Baksh
Anjana Mumtaz
Salma Mirza
Beena Banerjee
Laxmi Sethi
Vikram Gokhale
Jailer Ranveer Singh Sethi
Bharat Kapoor
Insp. Aziz Mirza
Shammi
Khuda Baksh's mother
Ajit Khan
Habibulla - Pashan's brother
Nagarjuna Akkineni
Insp. Raja Mirza
Surendra Pal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Amitabh Bachchan was so popular in Afghanistan that locals thought he was Afghan. The government provided security for the shoot.
This was one of the last major Indian productions filmed in Afghanistan before the Taliban's first takeover made such cross-border cinema impossible.
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