It stars Shah Rukh Khan in the lead role alongside Kajol, Siddharth, Shilpa Shetty (in her film debut), Raakhee, Dalip Tahil, and Johnny Lever.

[3] Baazigar proved to be Khan's breakthrough role as the sole lead (his first as an antihero), in addition to Kajol's first commercial success and Shetty's film debut.

It helped establish Khan, Kajol, Shetty and Malik in Hindi films, and the soundtrack sold over 10 million units, thus becoming the highest-selling album of the year.

Suspicious of her sister’s death, Priya begins investigating with the help of Inspector Karan Saxena, an old college friend.

Before Priya can see it, Ajay kills Ravi and forces him to write a suicide note, framing him as Seema's murderer.

[11] In an interview, Deepak Tijori revealed that when he first saw A Kiss Before Dying, he wanted to appear as the lead in the Hindi adaptation of the film.

They liked it and was ready to do the film, but after meeting Nihalani, Abbas-Mustan told that they want Shah Rukh Khan in the lead and already have other producers aboard.

[12][13] Several A-list Bollywood stars were approached for the lead role, but they turned it down, due to the character being a murderous antihero.

Arbaaz Khan also turned down the role for the same reason but would go on to play a full fledged villain in Abbas-Mastan's next film Daraar (1996).

However, his casting was criticized by trade pundits who incorrectly predicted that "a boy with cute dimples" would never be accepted as an anti-hero.

[11] Initially, Sridevi was supposed to play both the female roles (as twin sisters) as did Sean Young in the original film, but the director later realized that because to her massive popularity, the audience would not sympathize with the hero, if he killed the character played by Sridevi, hence they decided to cast two different actresses.

Other singers featured in the album are Asha Bhosle, Pankaj Udhas, Alka Yagnik, and Sonali Vajpai.

The lyrics were written by Gauhar Kanpuri, Rani Mallik, Zafar Gorakhpuri, Zameer Kazmi, Nawab Arzoo & Dev Kohli.

Baazigar emerged a major commercial success at the box-office, ranking as the fourth highest-grossing Hindi film of the year, behind another Shah Rukh Khan-starrer, Darr.