[6] The film stars N. T. Rama Rao Jr. in the lead role, alongside Kajal Aggarwal, Navdeep, Brahmanandam, and Kelly Dorji.

[4][8][9] Baadshah was released worldwide on 5 April 2013 and was premiered at the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2014 held in Japan.

Sadhu Bhai is an international syndicate leader who conquered the underworld of the entire Southeast Asia, and no one dared to challenge him.

In Milan, Italy, Janaki is a social worker who lives with her uncle Pilli Gopi Krishna Simha and cousins Inky and Pinky.

Rama Rao immediately discovers Dasu's true nature and buys him off to help him in making Janaki fall in love with him.

He is also thrashed by Janaki, Rama Rao, and Dasu for his attitude (Janaki slapped him for overlooking Rama Rao's talent and exaggerating about the influentials of the film industry and giving wrong answers about earlier films made by its directors and producers, Rama Rao slapped him for giving wrong answers again about the earlier films made by its directors and producers, and Dasu slapped him for frustrating Janaki.)

Although Sadhu is the most potent underworld don in Southeast Asia along with his right-hand men Vikram and Rasul, he was never able to conquer Hong Kong due to Robert's brother, a drug lord Violent Victor and his son Ruthless Johnny's control.

It is revealed that Baadshah's intent on entering the mafia world was to defeat Sadhu and conquer his empire with his uncle Ganesh.

Meanwhile, Ramachandra finds out that Sadhu is shipping RDX from Hong Kong to India and sends a team headed by Balram and ACP Aadi to intercept the container.

However, Aadi betrays and brutally kills Balram, also revealing that he is the mole in the police department working with Sadhu.

Present: Meanwhile, Sadhu plans several bomb blasts in all major cities in India with the RDX on the day of the WSIS in Hyderabad.

Flashback: Before Rama Rao entered the mafia, he, along with his adoptive brother Siddhu and his mother were living happily.

Sadly, on the day when Rama Rao was to leave for the US for a software job, Siddhu gets killed in a bomb blast that Sadhu planted.

Ramachandra asks Rama Rao to go undercover as Baadshah and infiltrate the mafia to extract information about Sadhu, and in return, all criminal charges against Dhanraj will be dropped.

Sadhu then makes Raghava, Aadi kidnaps Ramachandra and captures Padmanabha by using Nageswara Rao and his crew members.

Ramchandar reveals that Baadshah aka Rama Rao has been appointed as the new ADGP and that he was hired when he recovered the RDX and proved his worth.

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.

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.

[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.

The shooting later commenced at Novotel hotel in Hyderabad where scenes on N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Mukesh Rishi and others were canned.

[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.

[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.

[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.

"[53] Idlebrain gave a review of rating 4.5/5 stating "Baadshah is a film that serves you with Seenu Vytla kind of entertainment using N. T. Rama Rao Jr. and Brahmanandam in an effective way.

Brilliant performances from N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Kajal, Brahmanandam and M.S.Narayana coupled with a highly entertaining second half are major plus points for the film.

"[56] SuperGoodMovies gave a review of rating 4/5 stating "N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Kajal's Baadshah is a successful entertainer for this summer.

[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.