Based on 1999 Indian Airlines Flight 814 Hijack.
Debut film of Rohit Shetty.
All the scenes planned for Prakash Mehra's Zameen (Starring Amitabh Bachchan, Mohammed Ali,Zeenat Aman) were present in Kranti. This was due to writer Harbance Kumar stating he was inspired by the TV serial ROOTS. Salim Javed had also seen ROOTS and lifted several ideas from there and put them in Kranti. This upset Mehra severely. The film ended up being shelved .
The script of Zameen was initially written as a potential sequel to the Aamir Khan starrer Sarfarosh directed by John Matthew. John liked the script but told Supran Verma that they needed a strong villain. Suparn Verma just could not get the writing of the script to get on the right track. Suparn then met Ajay Devgan who told him to go talk to Rohit Shetty. Rohit heard the script and loved it. He decided to make the script as "Zameen".
First time Ajay Devgan and Abhisheik Bachchan acted together.