Trivia
The protagonist's character name "Shivaji Rao" was specially named after Tamil Superstar Rajinikanth's real name. This was because the lead role was initially written with Rajinikanth in mind for the original Tamil version, however, his refusal led to Shankar later signing on Arjun and he had interestingly retained the character's name in the Hindi version.Originally the first and original choice of the role of Manjali was Manisha Koirala was going to reprise her earlier role from Mudhalvan but she was busy with huge and multi-starrer films like Grahan and Lajja therefore she refused. Suprisingly, both those films were failures while Nayak went on to become at least an "Average". Later on the role played by Rani Mukherjee went to Karishma Kapoor, Tabu, Raveena Tandon and Priety Zinta but all of them refused and therefore Rani was signed in.
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