The film has since screened at numerous film festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Miss Lovely employs a number of films within the film itself. The film opens with a section of the horror movie "House No. 13" by Baby. Portions of Mani Kaul's film "Arrival" (1980) are glimpsed in the first section. A number of obscure horror films are excerpted, the most well-known being "Wohi Bhayanak Raat" (1988) by Vinod Talwar. These are shown as the Duggal Brother's productions within the film. The only "romantic" film referenced in the film is Man Tera Tan Mera" (1971) by B.R. Ishara. In fact, the leg-image used on the Miss Lovely international poster continues this pastiche technique as the leg itself comes from a press booklet for the 1976 film "Nehle Pe Dehla.
The film was dedicated to the memory of director Adolfas Mekas (1925-2011), brother of experimental filmmaker Jonas Mekas. Adolfas Mekas had been Ahluwalia's film professor and was a great supporter of the early drafts of Miss Lovely.
The Indian censor board originally insisted on 157 cuts for the film to be approved for release in India. The director spent over a year resisting, until he was able to talk them down to just 4 cuts.