This movie shares a number of similarities with "Parvarish" that was released two years later. In both movies, Shammi Kapoor and Indirani Mukherjee play husband and wife and in both movies Vinod Khanna is their real son while Amitabh Bachchan is their adopted son.
Ravi Chopra 's first film as director with a big star cast and also Shammi Kapoor's first film in character role, he was only in his 40s at that time.. He and Saira Banu played father and daughter in this film and they have played the hero-heroine in Junglee. Music composer Sapan Chakravorty's last hindi film as music composer. He also assisted R.D.Burman in many movies. After about. 30. years B.R.Chopra, Ravi Chopra and Amitabh Bachan came again in Baghban and then in Babul.
Much of the film was shot in the same location in Kashmir as "Satte Pe Satta", another Amitabh Bachchan starrer.
Shammi Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan had become close during the films shooting.During the evenings after pack up would enjoy with songs and music.While Amitabh Bachchan was playing a guitar one day Shammi Kapoor mesmerized a tune inspired from a flock song.After almost five years Amitabh Bachchan with Shammi Kapoor's permission used the tune for his film Silsila 1981 for the song Neela Aasman So Gaya which was sung by him.
Shammi Kapoor absolutely loved Amitabh. Shammi had met Amitabh when he was a young child when Prithvi theatre visited Allahabad for stage plays. Shammi had heard Harvansh Rai Bachchan recite his poem "Madhushala". That poem was part of Shammi Kapoor's course in theatre.