Bollywood suspense action thriller, Lal Badshah, written and directed by K. C. Bokadia was released on March 5, 1999. The movie starred Amitabh Bachchan and Manisha Koirala in lead roles while Shilpa Shetty, Amrish Puri, Shakti Kapoor, Nirupa Roy, Mukesh Rishi, Raghuvaran, Prem Chopra, Mohan Joshi, Pramod Muthu, Shama Deshpande, Nagma and Raadhika also played important roles in the film. The music of the film was given by the well known music director Aadesh Srivastava while the songs were crooned by Udit Narayan, Amitabh bachchan, Sudesh Bhonsle, Abhijeet, Anuradha Paudwal, Alka Yagnik and Sapna Awasthi.

Lal Singh ( Amitabh Bachchan ), is famous as a Lal Badshah among the people of his locality. He lives with his mother ( Nirupa Roy ). Lal is always ready to stand against gangster and is very helpful for poor people. Vikram Singh aka Vicky ( Raghuvaran ) is the son of the don of the city. Vicky and his brother, Ajit ( Mukesh Rishi ) wants to rule the city but the only problem in this is Lal Badshah. Lal meets with a beautiful girl named Kiran ( Manisha Koirala ) and falls in love with her. When Vicky and Ajit fails to defeat Lal anyhow then they calls their father, Dayal Singh ( Amrish Puri ) to handle this situation.

Dayal Singh is in search of the terasures of the Maharaja whom he killed years ago. But Maharaja’s son, Dewan Ranbir Singh ( Amitabh Bachchan ) manage to hid the treasure for which he was also shot by Dayal. Dayal Singh invies Lal Badshah in his party for threatening him from his power but when he sees the face of Lal, he drops his idea. He now wants to befriend Lal Badshah and for this he is also agreed to stop all his illegal activities.

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Dhanno ki aankh sharaabi re humka laage
2. Tala khol de
3. Dheere dheere chori chori karne aayi