Two months after death of Dilip Kumar his close family member producer Sangita Ahir announced the release of the film. It would be in a digitized format and they have eight hours of footage and she owns the rights to the film.Sangita Ahir also claimed that the work on the film was started much before death of the legend.
Sangita Ahir plans for a theatrical release as the film was close to Dilip Kumar.But when she had announced her plans to release the film cinema halls were shut due to pandemic.Due to the current work going on film in background there are hopes for theatrical release.
Launched with much fanfare by Sudhakar Bokade who was a leading producer at that time. He was riding high on the success of movies like Izzatdaar, Saajan, etc. The movie created headlines, because the legendary Dilip Kumar was to direct it. The movie was many years in the making and was eventually shelved.
This film's banner was Divya Citizen production. It was produced by Sudhakar Bokade and Saira Banu,and was written & directed by Dilip Kumar, music Kalyanji Anandji, lyrics Anand Bakshi cinematography Kamal Bose. Sunny Deol was the hero but due to date problems.
Dilip Kumar was unneccerly refusing all acting offers because he wanted to concentrate on Kalinga the film he was directing. He said that he will act in other's films after he completes Kalinga, which was not completed. B.R.Chopra's Baghban, also Subhash Ghai's Home-Land, Esmayeel Shroff untittled film are among the films dilip dint do
Dilip Kumar was to play a detective role in Esmayeel Shroff's film.