Quiz

' AAKHREE RAASTA ' is still considered as Amitabh Bachchan's one of the finest performances to date .

The film was earlier titled Qaid Ki Diary.

Producer Poorna Chandra had been asking south Indian film director K Bhagyaraj (whose several south Indian films had been remade into Hindi films) to direct a Hindi film, after the producer persisting several times, K Bhagyaraj gave an outline first. Poorna Chandra liked the story so much that he wanted him to write a screenplay and give it to him. Initially the story was made into a Tamil film by Bharatiraja based on this script, Oru Kaithiyin Diary (1984) with Kamal Hassan. Poorna Chandra was adamant of making the Hindi version with Amitabh Bachchan. Amitabh was brought to Chennai for the story narration, he liked it. But was a little doubtful about the directors ability to direct an action film, as he had done only family oriented subjects, after some discussion Amitabh agreed and signed on.

On the first day of shooting, to test the director's capability, although Amitabh Bachchan had the full script with him, he asked the director, 'If you can explain how the whole scene will be taken, it will be good for me to prepare everything mentally.' Amitabh wanted to check whether the director was prepared or not. Even before the director finished narrating the whole scene, Amitabh said he understands and thinks he can manage now.

As the original screenplay was translated into Hindi and the director didn't know Hindi. Every morning, Amitabh Bachchan would go through the script and ask the director to deliver the dialogs in Tamil so that he would understand whether the emotion had been conveyed properly in Hindi. The director used to emote all the scenes for the benefit of the others.