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Baadshah
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Baadshah release date: 5 April 2013 (theatres). Directed by Srinu Vaitla; starring N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Kajal Aggarwal and Navdeep.
- Film release
- 5 April 2013 · All 2013 films
- Director
- Srinu Vaitla
- Music
- S. Thaman
- Production
- Parameswara Art Productions
- Producer
- Ganesh Babu
- Runtime
- 165 min
- Language
- Telugu
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Film release: 5 April 2013 · all 2013 Telugu films.
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Baadshah (meaning “Emperor”) is a 2013 Telugu-language action comedy directed by Srinu Vaitla and produced by Bandla Ganesh. N. T. Rama Rao Jr. plays the title role, alongside Kajal Aggarwal, Navdeep, Brahmanandam and Kelly Dorji. Released on 5 April 2013 on 1,550 screens, it was a commercial success, and Brahmanandam won a SIIMA Award for Best Comedian for his role.
Story
Rama Rao dreams of becoming an IPS officer but is rejected because his father works for a notorious international gangster. After his brother is killed in a bomb blast arranged by that same underworld, Rama Rao takes on the identity of Baadshah and works his way into the crime syndicate to bring it down from within.
Cast
- N. T. Rama Rao Jr. as Rama Rao, known as Baadshah
- Kajal Aggarwal, the female lead
- Navdeep and Kelly Dorji
- Brahmanandam as a police officer
- Suhasini Maniratnam as the hero’s mother; Mahesh Babu provided a voice-over
Development
Vaitla announced the film in July 2011 while finishing Dookudu. Working titles included Mafia and Action before it became Baadshah, and it was launched at Ramanaidu Studios on 18 March 2012. Rama Rao Jr. slimmed down for a new look. Samantha was approached first, but Kajal Aggarwal took the female lead, her second film with him after Brindavanam.
Filming and music
Shooting began in Milan on 1 July 2012, moved through Europe and spent about six weeks in Bangkok, then continued in Hyderabad, with the climax filmed at Nagarjuna Sagar; it wrapped on 15 March 2013. K. V. Guhan was the cinematographer and M. R. Varma the editor. S. Thaman composed the six-song soundtrack, his second film with Vaitla, and the album was a big success.
Release and box office
The film was released worldwide on 5 April 2013 with 1,200 prints and was later screened at the 2014 Osaka Asian Film Festival. According to the source it earned a distributor’s share of ₹48.5 crore.
Sources: Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Cast of Baadshah (2013)
- N. T. Rama Rao Jr. as Rama Rao / Baadshah
- Kajal Aggarwal as Janaki
- Navdeep as Aadi
- Mukesh Rishi as Ranjan
- Ashish Vidyarthi as Crazy Robert
- Nassar as Jai Krishna Simha
- Kelly Dorji as Sadhu Bhai
- Chandra Mohan as Chandram
- Brahmanandam as Padmanabha Simha
Additional cast
Further acting credits recorded for this film; voice-only and dubbing credits are excluded.
- Ravi Prakash
- Tanikella Bharani
- Vennela Kishore
- Prudhvi Raj
- Rajiv Kanakala
- Ajay
- Sayaji Shinde as I. G. Ramchandra, IPS
- Satyam Rajesh
- Thagubothu Ramesh
- Brahmaji
- Satya Krishnan
- Pragathi
- Siddharth
- Vamsi Krishna
- Jaya Prakash Reddy
- Suhasini Maniratnam as Snehalatha
- Sudha
- Krishna Bhagavaan as Akuvakkala Ananda Rao
- Pradeep Rawat as Violent Victor
- Vikramjeet Virk as Vikram Singh
- M. S. Narayana
- Supreeth as Rocky Rasool
- Giri Babu as Rama Chandra Murthy
- Nagendra Babu as D. I. G. Balram, IPS
- Shafi
- Shankar Melkote
- Gautam Raju
- Ritu Varma as Inky
Also in the cast (TMDB): Raghu Babu as Raghu, Ajaz Khan as "Ruthless" Johnny, Adithya Menon as Ganesh, Jayaprakash Reddy as Jayaprakash, Rajitha as Ramchandra's wife, Surekha Vani as Padmanabha Simha's wife, Samyuktha Movva as Inky.
Character names as listed on TMDB, checked 10 Oct 2026.
Source record: Q4166243 on Wikidata. Dates are those on record and can change; this is not a studio announcement. Spotted an error? Send a correction.