The film was launched as Koncord International's " Teen Farishtey"on November 1976. The film starred Dharmendra,Hema Malini, Amitabh Bachchan ,Vinod Khanna (Replaced Rishi Kapoor), Produced by Tarun Guru Dutt, Directed by Pramod Chakravorthy. The film was eventually shelved . The film's was inspired by the Hollywood movie "The Three Musketeer's. G.P. Sippy ,Salim and Javed, Ramesh Sippy had originally planned to remake the film in 1974/75. Dharmendra,Sanjeev Kumar and Amitabh had been signed. The film was called off due to Sholay taking extra time. Sachin Bhowmick then decided to take up the story and gave it to Tarun Guru Dutt. Jagir was restarted again in 1979. This time Pramod Chakravorthy took over as producer. Amitabh stepped into Dharmendra's role, Rishi Kapoor stepped into the role that was to be earlier done by Amitabh and Mithun Chakraborthy stepped into Vinod Khanna's role. The film once again saw delays due to Amitabh's schedule. Finally Dharmendra came back into the film in his original role, Mithun remained in the film and Danny was signed for the role Rishi Kapoor was earlier doing.
The film was a huge hit and created a strong comraderie between Dharmendra and Mithun.
Movie was massive hit on boxoffice
The film was released during Diwali in 1984 and proved a blockbuster at the box office.
It shattered Soviet Union box office records when released there in 1986.