Navketan's Shareef Badmash & Heera Panna both films fwere released in the same year.
Raj Khosla directed Dev Anand in C.I.D. Solwa Saal, Kala Pani, Bombay Ka Babu, Sanjh Ke Galiyan (unreleased) Nawab Aur Sharaab (shelved) and Shareef Badmash which was their last film toghether.
The film suffered because Raj Khosla did not concentrate on the film when also he belonged to the same camp.
Raj Khosla stated everything went wrong with the film from day one. The film had a bad script It was his fault he agreed to do the film and the basis of the story narrated to him. Khosla stated he should have raised above the bad script and made changes.
Raj Khosla had directed 2 films for Dev Anand's Navketan, Kala Pani & Shareef Badmaash.