One of the highest box office opener's in Bollywood history at that time.
Lucky Ali threaten to take Sanjay Gupta and Pritish Nandy to court for non payment. Sanjay Gupta claimed Lucky had received 50% of his fee. Amitabh Bachchan also had payment issues with the producers.
The movie was scheduled to be shot in the Mumbai slums but eventually it went to LA instead.