There were some rumors in the papers at that time that Nutan was offered the role of Waheeda Rehman but Nutan denied it, she had never worked with Chopra in her entire career while Rehman did a number of films with Chopra before and after Kabhi Kabhie. The distributors were skeptical about the film even though the media was giving it a lot of attention. They thought Amitabh Bachchan in a moustache and in a romantic role in first half and negative role in the second half was a 100 percent failure but Yash Chopra was confident it would work and it did.
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