Most actors featured in the series went through a series of training sessions for Hindustani Classical Music and learned the basics of a few instruments played by them in the show.
Or, An average of 8 musical IDs per episode were written, composed and sung by singers prior to the principal photography. This meant the actors had to go through vigorous preparations to get the correct lip movement, hand gestures and body language for all sargams and aakars during the day of production.
Director Anand Tiwari revealed that right from the inception of this story, the character of Panditji was written keeping veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah in mind.
Bandish Bandits is the debut web series for Shankar-Ehsan-Loy as music composers.
Anand Tiwari has been Naseeruddin Shah's student in theatre and was also part of a play by Motleys.