The censor board had a problem with a scene where Shabana and Vinod Khanna's legs were intertwined on the bed. They felt it look like they were having sex. Aruna Raje explained to them there was no way they could have sex in that position. The censor board did not budge and Aruna had to delete the scene.
During the bedroom scenes Shabana Azmi would complain to the director and Vinod Khanna she was not married so she did not know what to exactly do. This caused Vinod and Aruna Raje to have a good laugh. Shabana was seeing Shekhar Kapur at the time.
Shabana had 2 big commercial hits in 1976 - Shaque with Vinod and Fakira with Shashi - that catapulted her to the big league. She went on to act with Vinod in 7-8 movies after Shaque of which 5 were released in 1977.