Ekta was going to be launched in the film with the screen name "Jharna". Director Sanil Khosla claims that he and Ekta fell in love during the making of the film and he decided to replace her with another heroine. The reason being they decided to get married and he did not want Ektaa to do any steamy scenes with the hero of the film. Later they decided against marriage as they had many differences. Ektaa hid all this information from Dev Anand when she signed a contract with him for Awwal Number.