The shooting of the film went off smoothly. It was much publicised as the first Hindi film shot completely in America. The problem started when Jag packed off all his negatives to India because the film's dubbing was supposed to take place there. As luck would have it, the customs confiscated the negatives of the film saying it was a foreign film and that Jag did not have a importer's licence. The National Film Development Corporation which was supposed to help out, didn't. As the film gathered dust in the cans, someone from the customs department finally decided to help Mundhra out."He said he would auction my negatives and that he would not make the auction public. I ended up buying my own film which was delay by two years." "At that time the going had got difficult for me because I had to support my wife and my newborn baby. Suraag had cost me around $ 400,000, which amounted to Rs 4 million in those days. Those were tough days. But Suraag helped me get my foot in the door.
"I also realised that theoretical knowledge was insufficient. I learned to swim by jumping into the water and thrashing aboAftertherelease of Suraag, Mundhra closed his theatre forever But while making Suraag, he realised he could not believe the ludicrous scenes in Hindi films. "I realised in the comic scenes between Mehmood and Shubha Khote that my heart was not in it and that those scenes seemed ridiculous to me." So he tried his hand at serious cinema.