• The launch of this movie was different in the sense that there was no coconut-breaking ritual or sounding-the-clapperboard ceremony. Instead, the lead men Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt and Akshaye Khanna unveiled their giant-sized pictures and clicked the remote for the screening of the one-minute promo.

• Belly dancers were flown in from Brazil and Belarus for a raunchy number in a cave.

• A portion of the film was shot in the fort (near Varanasi) which is supposed to be located in Karachi, this location was suggested by Amitabh Bachchan.

• A complaint was lodged against producer Gaurang Doshi, by Ravi Bohra with the Film Writers' Association, alleging that the story of the movie resembled his script about POWs in Pakistan. The Association ruled that the movie's story and the one registered by Bohra were similar; Doshi had had to pay 150,000 Rupees to Bohra.

• Amitabh Bachchan and Tanuja will be playing a couple for the first time in 33 years. The last time they played a couple was in the 1971 film Pyar Ki Kahani (1971)