Shah Rukh Khan Was The Only One Who Thought Baazigar Would Be A Hit: ‘I Will Pull It Off'

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Before Baazigar became a cult hit and turned Shah Rukh Khan into a Bollywood game-changer, almost nobody thought the film would work. The thriller, released in 1993 and directed by Abbas – Mustan , shocked many with its bold choice of making a murderer the hero. Audiences had barely met SRK by then, yet the film made him unforgettable. But according to the film’s writer Javed Siddiqui, one man carried complete conviction even when others hesitated — Shah Rukh himself.

A risk nobody wanted to take

In a new recent conversation, Javed Siddiqui remembered how people reacted when the script first surfaced. Many questioned how audiences would accept a lead character who kills multiple people. He recalled the pushback clearly:

“When the project star