One the earlier films of Anil Kapoor and his only film with the Rajshris and Lekh Tandon.
Regarding Ek Baar Kaho Shabana stated "I took an instant dislike to Anil Kapoor when I first set eyes on Anil as he stepped out from the lobby of Holiday Inn... dressed in black drainpipes, red shirt with front buttons open, pulled-up collar...his posture crying out loud, "Look at me!" I reckoned he was a rich brat... a producer's son... Kapoor attached to his surname, makes him expect everything on a platter.. I was horrified to learn that he had been cast in a bit role in my film Ek Baar Kaho and that I would have to suffer him for a month- long schedule in Darjeeling. I decided to keep him at an arm's distance although as a matter of habit, I mingle very easily with my younger co-stars. On set, I discovered that he was the opposite of the upstart I had expected him to be. He was hungry to learn and like a ticking battery, absorbed everything that was happening on the sets. The other youngsters in the film couldn't wait to party as soon as pack-up was announced. Anil would hang around, hoping to catch favour with the director Lekh Tandon so that he could be given at least one scene on his own where he could make a mark. Oh! How he wanted that song that was picturised on Dilip Dhawan. To his complete envy, he didn't get it, but he didn't let his disappointment turn into disenchantment. He had trained under my acting guru Roshan Taneja and acting was his life's blood. At the age of 10, he used to travel by bus all alone from Chembur to Peddar Road to take sitar lessons for a film called Tu Payal Main Geet in which he got to play the younger Shashi Kapoor. He earned my respect and we became friends.
Hollywood movie Come September was remade as Kashmir Ki Kali,Mere Sanam and Ek Baar Kaho.
The plot of this film was inspired by the Hollywood film "An Affair to Remember" (1957), starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. "An Affair to Remember" (1957) itself was a remake of director Leo McCarey's own, older American film "Love Affair" (1939). The Hindi films "Bheegi Raat" (1965) and "Mann" (1999), and the Telugu film "Ravoyi Chandamama" (1999) also had similar plots.
Raakh Ke Dher Ko Bikhra Gayi. It appears that the film's original audio release had two solo versions of this song - one each by Jagjit Singh and Aarti Mukherji. However, later releases had a duet version sung by Jagjit Singh and Aarti Mukherji, and a solo by Aarti Mukherji.