Comedian Harsh Gujral Roasts Amitabh Bachchan Over Baghban: 'All Your Kids Turned Out To Be Bad In The Film'

Every Indian millennial has a “Baghban story,” and comedian Harsh Gujral turned that shared childhood wound into comedy gold on Kaun Banega Crorepati 17, leaving host Amitabh Bachchan laughing and slightly

stunned. The 2003 family drama may be a sentimental favourite, but for a generation of 90s and early-2000s kids, it remains a cinematic weapon parents allegedly used to emotionally blackmail them. Harsh said it out loud — on national TV.

During his stand-up segment, he looked straight at Big B and asked, “Why did you do that film sir. Kids in India are threatened with only two films – at night from Veerana and in the morning, Baghban.”

He continued with a story many viewers instantly related to, “Our parents beat us up while taking us to watch the film. We thought that they hadn’t seen the film yet and they were beating us so much, after watching the film, they would kill us.”

He said the film sparked paranoia at home. “After watching the film, the Baghban test started in my family. My father started accusing me of having an eye on his property, I had to remind him that he lives on rent.”

Gujral then jokingly held Big B responsible for the image of ungrateful sons haunting Indian children for years. “When all your four kids turned out to be bad in the film. What was our mistake? We have been bearing the brunt of it for so many years.”

He also roasted Bachchan’s famous fasting scene, saying it forever changed relationship expectations in Indian households. “Why did you keep a fast on Karwa Chauth in the film? Now all the males in the country are tense… women tell us that ‘if Amitabh Bachchan can keep the fast, tum kis khet ki muli ho?’”

Gujral jokingly assured viewers, “Amitabh kept the fast only till the time the camera was rolling and after the cut he had started eating fruits.”

Released in 2003, Baghban follows Raj (Amitabh Bachchan) and Pooja (Hema Malini) as they struggle with four sons who refuse to care for them together. It remains one of Indian cinema’s most debated family dramas, still inspiring memes, arguments, and emotional debates at dining tables.

Actor Aman Verma, who played one of the sons, once said people asked him, “Aman ji, aap itni nalayak aulad kaise ho sakte the?”

Co-star Samir Soni recalled being scolded by an elderly woman because viewers took the story so personally.