Shahid Kapoor accepted the role of Matru but after the failure of Mausam he felt he needed to do more commercial cinema in order to survive. Vishal Bhardwaj understood and told him that his next film Shahid cannot reject, which happen to be Haider (2014)
Bijlee is at one point sitting near the pool and reading Shakespeare's "Macbeth". The film's director, Vishal Bhardwaj, has previously made an adaptation of Macbeth called "Maqbool".
Based on Bertolt Brecht's play "Mr Puntilla and his Man Matti".
Director Trademark: The song in the first trailer is sung by either Vishal Dadlani or Sukhvinder Singh.
The role of Matru was rejected by Ajay Devgan as he felt the role was not meaty enough and didn't feel comfortable by playing a role of a right hand man