The movie was surrounded with controversy from the beginning. In the of the songs, the lyrics were "your skin is so fair that Beyonce would be embarrassed". This was just months after the huge BLM protests in the USA. The producers later changed the problematic lyrics.
Upon release of its trailer on YouTube khaali peeli garnered 1Million dislikes in less than 24 hrs
In the first 15 days of this movie being on YouTube it had 442,000 dislikes compared to 126,000.
Ishaan Khattar played a Tapori type character and Ananya played a prostitute for the first time.
The film released on Zee Plex.