The film was originally titled Bada Bhai.
Master Chotu played the role of Young Mithun in the film who also played young Mithun in disco dancer and mithun's student in Jaag utha insan
Contrary to the reports on internet the child a tor playing the role of young Mithun Chakraborty is not Ajay Devgn but master chotu who has worked in many hindi films like Disco Dancer, Swami Dada, Jaag utha insan etc.
Padmini Kolhapure was given the option to play either Mithun's sister or lover. She choose to play his love interest as she didn't wanted to ruin the romantic pairing of her and Mithun. This film was the second consecutive successful film of their romantic pairing after the immensely successful Pyar Jhukta Nahin in the same year. This was the second time she was offered the role of Mithun's sister first was film Kismat (1980) which she couldn't do due to her date problems.
This was the debut film of Tanvi Kher daughter of veteran actress Usha Kiran. During the shooting she fell in love with the cinematographer of the film Baba Azmi, brother of Shabana Azmi. Their families objected due to their religious differences and they eloped to get married.