The character of Jailer Hans Rajlanda is based on the character Hans Landa from Inglourious Basterds.
Inspired from Mahesh Bhatt's Gumrah (1993) which had Alia Bhatt's mother Soni Razdan playing one of the jail mate and friend of Sridevi.
In one of the scene Manoj Pahwa is wearing Tshirt "Urf Professor" written on it. It is an easter egg from the film named "Urf Professor" where Manoj Pahwa played the professor.
After being labeled 'arrogant' for not accepting the film's failure in an interview as well as receiving hate for defending the film, Vasan Bala deactivated his X (formerly Twitter) account.
Divya Khosla Kumar, Wife of Bhushan Kumar, head of T-series claimed that Alia faked collections of the film, she said theater's were empty which created a controversy however many felt she did this because her film Savi which flopped had a similar story.