Amitabh Bachchan was not a big star when the movie released, his photo was smaller than all the stars in the movie on the posters. But when the movie was re- released after ten years on the posters, the photo of Amitabh Bachchan was much bigger than other stars in the movie.
Sharmila Tagore was offered Zeenat Aman' s role. But she wanted to do Moushumi Chatterjee' s role. Manoj Kumar decided to stick with his vision.
Veeru devgan first film as action director.
Only film of Amitabh Bachchan as college student.He also did a college student role in Kabhi Kabhi.
In keeping with his image of "Bharat", Manoj Kumar refused to touch Zeenat Aman and do a physical romantic scenes. He would continue this practice for years. He felt physical romance would not go with his screen image.