 The first feature film to be shot extensively in Kabul, Afghanistan,  after the end of the Talibans reign. The producers thought director  Kabir Khan (qv) was mad to shoot a film in such a place. However,  Khan, a former war correspondent, insisted on doing so on the  grounds that Kabul was a major element and character in the film;  that he himself had been to Afghanistan no less than ten times and  came back in one piece every time; that he had a soft spot for the  country, having shot his first film in it; and that he would be  betraying all his Afghan friends who had helped him during his trips  to their country not to shoot such a film in their own land.