Word: badshah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faraway realm rival clans play a brutal game called buzkashi, in which horsemen fight over a dead goat and drag its carcass across a finish line. Badshah Khan (Amitabh Bach-chan), noble chief of his clan, seems destined to win this fierce match, when the veil falls from the face of his main rival and--Allah be praised!--it is a beautiful woman, Benazir (Sridevi). What can our smitten hero do but let Benazir win the race and, to prove his love, lead his warriors in an ecstatic production number...
...Badshah is an imposing chieftain in a land that seems medieval if not mythical. But Benazir won't think of marrying him until he brings her the head of Habibullah, the Indian bandit who killed her father. In carrying out his pledge, Badshah breaks Indian law. So he gives his word to a kindly policeman that, after going home for his wedding, he will return to be jailed. In the ensuing 20 years he takes the rap for two murders he didn't commit. Poor Badshah: noble to a fault...