 The film was to star Amitabh Bachchan (qv), Sanjay Dutt (qv),  Sunil Shetty (qv), Akshaye Khanna (qv), Mahesh Manjrekar (qv),  Kumar Gaurav (qv) and Shilpa Shetty (qv) initially. But  Akshaye Khanna (qv) opted out of the project subsequently, while  Malaika Arora (qv) stepped in Shilpas shoes.