Gulzar made the mistake of releasing the film in the Indian Panorama film festival. This put the film in the art film category. Due to this no distributor was willing to touch the film. This caused delays in the films release .
Lekin is the only Hindi produced film of Lata Mangeshkar.
The film was first offered to Sri Devi. She refused the film as she did not want to do a Gulzar type film. Then she avoided Lata Mangeshkar who was producing the film. The reason she did this was because she knew she would have to lower her price because Lata Mangeshkar was asking her to do the film.
Sunny Deol came hand in hand with Dimple Kapadia to the films premiere. This made all headlines and magazines.
Gulzar and Hridayanath Mangeshkar worked for the first time together.