In his ultimate launch of 2004, Khan starred as a NASA scientist who patriotically returns to India to rekindle his roots in Ashutosh Gowariker's social drama Swades (which means "Homeland"), which became the to start with Indian photo to be shot within the NASA analysis centre at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Khan's only release in 1999 was Baadshah, in which he starred opposite Twinkle Khanna.