Puneet Issar whose fight scene caused injury to Amitabh Bachchan became out of work after he cause injury to the star to survive in the industry he started working in B grade films as no producer director wanted to work with him.
Hrishikesh Mukherjee whose films were completely different and opposite from Manmohan Desai's type of films, but Hrishikesh Mukherjee was the editor of Coolie, a rare combination.
Two days before the Amitabh Bachchan's injury, Smita Patil had seen a dream of Amitabh Bachchan being seriously injured on sets of the film and she called to check about his health where Amitabh Bachchan told her he was fine but tragedy happened two days later after his fight scene went wrong with Puneet Issar.
During the fighting scene where Amitabh Bachchan was injured, the moment is marked with a freeze frame, and a message is displayed in English, Hindi, and Urdu - "This is the shot in which AMITABH BACHCHAN was seriously injured". This is something unheard of and has never been witnessed in Indian cinema.
After making big films like Naseeb & Desh Premee, Manmohan Desai had decided he will make a smaller film, Coolie and he won't direct it but writer Prayag Raaj would direct it. In the song sequence of Naseeb Chal Mera Bhai.....The Coolie poster is seen on the wall. Later after the shooting started, to please the distributors and to get higher price, Manmohan Desai just added his name in the credit tittles as the co-director. Actually Prayag Raaj had directed the whole film.