Baadshah 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.[5] The film stars N. T. Rama Rao Jr. in the lead role, alongside Kajal Aggarwal, Navdeep, Brahmanandam, and Kelly Dorji. The soundtrack was composed by S. Thaman and this is his second collaboration with Sreenu Vaitla.[6] Cinematography was handled by K. V. Guhan.[4][7][8]
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The film was released worldwide on 5 April 2013.[9] and was premiered at the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2014 held in Japan.[10][11] Baadshah released in 1550 Screens worldwide with 1200 Prints.[12] Brahmanandam won the SIIMA Award for Best Comedian (Telugu) for his role in the film. Baadshah received positive reviews from critics for its performances of N. T. Rama Rao Jr. & Brahmanandam and humour. The film was a hit at the box office.
The Technical team along with the Music Director S. Thaman that delivered Dookudu worked for this film.[17] N. T. Rama Rao Jr. gone lean to give a new look for his character in this film.[18] It was also reported that N. T. Rama Rao Jr.'s character would have multiple shades in the film.[19] Though the makers tried to rope Samantha initially, she couldn't be a part of the film due to her busy schedules. Finally the makers zeroed Kajal Aggarwal to play the lead lady's role in the film which marks her second collaboration with N. T. Rama Rao Jr. after Brindavanam.[20] Popular actor Navdeep, who was known for his varied hero roles, was selected to play one of the antagonists of the film. Another popular Telugu, Tamil Hero Siddharth was hired to play a crucial cameo role of N. T. Rama Rao Jr.'s brother.[21] Popular Actress Suhasini Maniratnam was signed in March 2013 to play the role of N. T. Rama Rao Jr.'s mother in the film.[22] Mahesh Babu was reported to be the Narrator of a part of the film and after much speculation, the makers confirmed the news that Mahesh is providing Voice-over for some crucial scenes in the film.[23] It was also revealed that Brahmanandam would play the role of a Cop in the film and his role was said to be very special in the film.[24] Meenakshi Dixit and South African model Nicole Amy Madell were chosen to perform item numbers in the film.[25][26]
Though initially planned on 15 June 2012,[27] the Principal photography started from 1 July 2012 at Milan in Italy after being shifted from Seoul.[28] First schedule was initially said to be held in Europe. But the unit after shooting key portions at Italy shifted to Europe where two songs and some key scenes were shot.[29][30] After filming for a hectic and long schedule in Europe and Italy, the unit proceeded to Bangkok.[31] It was reported that some key scenes in Mafia Backdrop will be shot there.[32] The film was shot extensively in Bangkok for more than 1 and a half month till 25 September 2012 and it was reported that 60% of the film's shoot was completed by then.[33] The new shooting schedule of the film began in a private house in Hyderabad, where few comedy scenes and other vital scenes will be canned on the lead cast.[34] The crew returned from Bangkok and the shooting resumed in Hyderabad from the last week of September 2012. The shooting later commenced at Novotel hotel in Hyderabad where scenes on N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Mukesh Rishi and others were canned.[35] The filming resumed in Hyderabad from the second week of October 2012.[36] In the same month, the Introduction fight of N. T. Rama Rao Jr. was filmed at a huge set erected at the Aluminium Factory in Gachibowli under the supervision of Vijayan.[36] After filming a few other action sequences, the unit continued its shoot in Hyderabad in November 2012 where some key scenes were shot on the lead pair as well as other actors.[37] In December, the shoot continued at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad in Hyderabad for 3 days.[38] In the same month, Navdeep joined the sets of the film.[39] Later the shooting continued at a temple in Kachiguda and Daspalla Hotel in Hyderabad.[40] The climax of the film was shot at Nagarjuna Sagar in which N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Navdeep, Kelly Dorje and others participated for a week.[41] Then a song on Nicole and N. T. Rama Rao Jr. was filmed at Annapurna 7 Acres Studio.[42] After completing few patch work activities at Novotel, the shooting finally came to an end on 15 March 2013.[43]
The soundtrack of the film was composed by S. Thaman, who previously worked with both N. T. Rama Rao Jr. and Srinu Vaitla. Music discussions were held in Ooty.[44] The soundtrack consists of 6 Tracks all composed by S. Thaman with Ramajogayya Sastry penning 3 of them and Krishna Chaitanya, Viswa, Bhaskarabhatla Ravikumar penning each. The audio launch of the film was held at Ramanaidu Studios in Nanakramguda, Hyderabad on 27 February 2013 and the audio was released through Aditya Music label.[45] The audio was a huge success and The Hexa Platinum Disc function of the film was held on 9 March 2013 at Novotel in Hyderabad.[46]
The film was in the list of top 10 grossers at USA box office on 4 April 2013 collecting 234,686 USD's in 108 reported screens across USA, thus emerging as the biggest grosser among N. T. Rama Rao Jr.'s movies in USA,[63] thus breaking the record set by Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu which held the record of all-time highest grosser Telugu movie in the country.[64] Noted trade analyst Taran Adarsh has reported that the film crossed the US$1 Million mark in the US, on the third day, which is a phenomenal feat and it is the first Telugu film to achieve this record in the opening weekend itself.[65] The film collected 1.094 Million Dollars.[66]
The VCD's, DVD's & Blu-ray's of the film were released through the Company BhavaniDVD on 19 July 2013.[67][68] Maxam released the original Telugu version with Japanese subtitles on DVD on December 19, 2014, and was later reissued at a lower price on March 31, 2017. It was also released on YouTube by Volga Video since 2014.
Second, our examination of firms' reactions to the elimination of uncertainty over tariff rates rather than actual reductions in tariffs contributes to the literature analyzing investment under uncertainty (e.g. Dixit and Pyndick 1994; Bloom, Bond and Van Reenen (2007)), as well as itsapplication to international trade. Our effort is closely related to the work of Handley (2012) and Handley and Limao (2012, 2013), who show that if uncertainty regarding either the timing or the magnitude of tariff changes in a destination market falls, exporting to that market rises as relativelylow-productivity firms lose their incentive to wait and see how tariffs will change before absorbing the sunk costs associated with entry. Here, we demonstrate the strong and wide-ranging effects on both the exporting and importing country of perhaps the most significant change in import-tariffuncertainty since the turn of the century - the granting of PNTR to China.5 Our finding that PNTR is associated with increases in the number of U.S. importers,Chinese exporters and importer-exporter pairs is evidence that firms reacted to the policy change by making irreversible investments of the type discussed in these models. In addition, our examination of how plants subsequently adjust their capital and skill intensity in response to PNTR is relatedto Bloom, Draca and Van Reenen's (2012) research on trade-induced technical change.
We augment the data in the LBD with detailed establishment-level characteristics from Census's quinquennial Census of Manufactures (CM), conducted in years ending in "2" and "7." For every manufacturing establishment, the CM provides more detailed employment data, including a breakdown ofworkers between production and non-production roles, production hours and the capital stock (book value). Nominal data are deflated using industry-level price indexes in the NBER-CES Manufacturing Industry Database from Becker, Gray and Marvakov (2013).
Together, the results in Tables 2 and 3 demonstrate that U.S. imports from China surge in precisely the set of goods where domestic employment loss is concentrated. This link provides indirect evidence that PNTR encouragedoffshoring.22 Furthermore, the relative increase in U.S. and Chinese firms engaging in China-U.S. trade is consistent with models of investment (e.g.,Handley 2012, Handley and Limao 2012, 2013), in which reductions in trade policy uncertainty increase firms' incentives to sink investment in new trade relationships.
Export Licensing: As discussed in detail in Bai et al. (2013), China agreed to phase out export licensing requirements by 2003. Because export licenses had formerly been more difficult to obtain in some industries than others, their removal may have led to a surge inChinese exports and subsequent decline in U.S. manufacturing employment in the industries where licensing was most binding.23 To account for this potentialinfluence, we include in our regression an interaction of a post-PNTR indicator with the share of firms eligible for export licenses in 1999 from Bai et al. (2013). As indicated in Table 4, this coefficient is statistically insignificant in all years.
Production Subsidies: Some have argued that the rapid expansion of China's manufacturing sector was driven by subsidies, which may affect some industries more than others (Haley and Haley 2013). We follow Girma et al. (2009) and Aghion et al. (2012) and use firm-leveldata published by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to compute industry-level changes in the subsidy-per-sales ratio from 1999 to 2005, and interact this variable with an indicator for the post-PNTR period. Here, a negative relationship indicates rising subsidies are associated withfalling employment. As indicated in Table 4, we find a negative but statistically insignificant relationship between this covariate and employment growth in all years.
Textile and Clothing Quotas: During the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations, the United States, the EU and Canada agreed to eliminate quotas on developing country textile and clothing exports in four phases starting in 1995 (Brambilla et al. 2009). China was noteligible for these reductions until its accession to the WTO. We use data provided by Khandelwal et al. (2013) to identify industries where the majority of HS products experience relaxed quotas starting in 2001, and include an interaction of this variable with a post-PNTR dummy variable. Asindicated in Table 4, we find a positive and generally statistically significant relationship between this interaction and job loss after PNTR. This coefficient reflects the fact (evident in Table A.4 below) that while job loss continuedin these industries during the 2000s, losses were relatively greater in the 1990s, when MFA quotas began being phased out for developing countries other than China. 2ff7e9595c
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