30 Years of Baazigar
Be loyal, and then make a dog's life out of your master's : Cunning Madan Chopra whisks away boss Vishwanath Sharma's property through a lucrative power of attorney, leaving Sharma penniless. On the streets, Sharma loses his riches to Chopra, his daughter to the flu, and his family to poverty. He dies as well and leaves Ajay to fend for himself and his traumatised mother. Ajay seeks revenge, and how! Directed by Abbas-Mustan, produced by Venus, and inspired by A Kiss Before Dying (1991), United Seven Pictures presents Baazigar! As Baazigar begins, our hero Ajay hitches a taxi to Bombay. Why does he want to go there? He's looking for something. "Who?" his schoolmate Vicky smilingly asks. Adjusting his fat, black spectacles, Ajay clears his throat and says, "Kaamyaabi" (success). An animated coin flips on a freeze-frame, revealing the title credits: Baazigar . Ajay was the Baazigar, and Shah Rukh Khan was Ajay. Prophetic as he always has been (s