Asrani was the part of both the remake and the original.
Kader Khan stated "My elder son Kudoos would come home after playing with his friends with his clothes all torn.As a villain, I always got beaten up in the end.His friends and classmates told him that your father beats up people and then, in the end, he gets beaten up. My son used to get angry at such comments and get into fights.One day, when he came home with a head injury, I became very upset and decided I would not accept villain roles any more. Himmatwala, a comedy, was being made and I started doing comic roles from then on.
Kumari Naaz dubbed for Sridevi.
The film was a commercial success and proved to be a breakthrough for Sridevi in Bollywood.
The film, upon release, became a Blockbuster; the biggest Blockbuster hit of its time and also one of the biggest musical Blockbuster Masala films of the 1980s.