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Baadshah | |
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Directed by | Sreenu Vaitla |
Written by | Sreenu Vaitla Gopimohan Kona Venkat |
Produced by | Bandla Ganesh |
Starring | N. T. Rama Rao Jr. Kajal Aggarwal Navdeep Brahmanandam Kelly Dorji |
Narrated by | Mahesh Babu |
Cinematography | K. V. Guhan |
Edited by | M. R. Varma |
Music by | S. Thaman |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Great India Films (Overseas)[1] Bharath Pictures (Vizag) Hari Venkateswara Films (Guntur) Sri Nikethan Films (Nellore) |
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Running time | 164 minutes[3] |
Country | India |
Language | Telugu |
Budget | ₹55 crore[4] |
Box office | ₹48.5 crore (equivalent to ₹82 crore or US$9.9 million in 2023) Distributor share [5] |
Baadshah (transl. Emperor) is a 2013 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film directed by Sreenu Vaitla. The film was produced by Bandla Ganesh under his Parameswara Art Productions banner.[6] The film stars N. T. Rama Rao Jr. in the lead role, alongside Kajal Aggarwal, Sayaji Shinde Navdeep, Vennela Kishore, Prakash Raj, Raghu Babu, Rao Ramesh, Brahmanandam, and Kelly Dorji. The soundtrack was composed by S. Thaman, which also marks his second collaboration with Sreenu Vaitla.[7] The cinematography and editing were handled by K. V. Guhan and M.R. Varma.[4][8][9]
Baadshah was released worldwide on 5 April 2013 and was premiered at the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2014 held in Japan.[10][11] It was released in 1550 Screens worldwide with 1200 prints.[12] The film became a commercial success at the box office and Brahmanandam won the SIIMA Award for Best Comedian (Telugu) for his comic performance in the film.