The names of the two lead characters played by Naseeruddin Shah and Ravi Vaswani are references to the names of the production controller, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, and the assistant director, Sudhir Mishra, both of whom went on to become wellknown Hindi movie directors.

This Movie was made on such a shoestring budget that Nasseruddin Shah, the most well known actor was paid only Rs 15,000 300 for the movie. Naseer also had to bring his own Nikon camera to the shootings to use as a prop for his character, who was a photographer. Towards the end of the shooting, this camera was stolen, which amongst other painful memories of the making of the film, Naseer still reminisces about

There is a reference by one of the lead characters early in the movie saying that they have borrowed money from Kundan Shah. Kundan Shah is the name of the director.

Anita Kanwar dubbed for the character played by Bhakti Bharve.

The code "Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai What makes Albert Pinto angry" which Naseeruddin Shahs character gives to Satish Kaushiks character is actually the name of a film of which Kundan Shah, among other things, was the assistant director and in which Naseeruddin Shah played the lead character, Albert Pinto.

Anupam Kher was cast as a disco killer in the film, a gangster who eliminated his victims while he danced. All his scenes were shot, but discarded from the final cut at the editing stage.

The two lead characters in the movie are named after the two assistants in the movie, Sudhir Mishra and Vidhu Vidod Chopra.

Director Kundan Shah paid tribute to the film BlowUp 1966 in his film . The park where the two photographers shoot a dancing monkey is named Antonioni Park, after the director of BlowUp, Michelangelo Antonioni. The photo of the monkey is blown up and it leads to the discovery of a murder.