Alia Bhatt appeared as the small Reet Oberoi.
The song "Mujhe Raat Din" in the movie has the tune copied from the song "Mujhe Dekh kar aapka muskurana" from the movie "Ek Musafir Ek Haseena (1962)".
Ashutosh Rana's second successive award in a negative role after Dushman 1998.
Shah Rukh Khan was offered the lead role but he refused to work with the writer of the film Mahesh Bhatt since his previous two films with Bhatt's production house, Chaahat (1996) and Duplicate (1998), were box office disasters.
Ashutosh Rana's famous evil scary screaming/yelling scene was used as background music in the TV serial Sankat Mochan Mahabali Hanuman.