ट्रिविया

In the scene succeeding the bus accident, a concerned father approaches Sanjeev Kumar asking for the whereabouts of his son, Sunil Dutt, a play on reference of the real life actor, Sunil Dutt.

Filmmaker Ranjit Kapoor's dedications for his debut film "Chintu Ji" (2009) included Hrishikesh Mukherjee, the director of this film, Dharmendra, its lead actor, and Narendra Sanyal, the writer of the novel on which the film was based.

The film was based on Narayan Sanyal's Bengali novel of the same title.

Dharmendra arrived at the Filmfare awards expecting to win the best actor award. He ended up not winning. Dharmendra always called Satyakam his best performance.

The film was produced by Dharmendra's brother in law.