V. Shantaram had originally planned to cast his daughter Rajashree for the lead role in this film. Rajashree, however, asked to be excused. During the shooting of "Around The World" (1967), she had met an American called Greg Chapman, fallen in love with him, and was at that time making plans to visit the US to meet his parents. She told V. Shantaram that she would not be able to do justice to a film in the middle of all this. V. Shantaram then decided to give this role to Mumtaz, whom he had featured in two of his earlier films, "Stree" (1961) and "Sehra" (1963), in smaller roles. Jeetendra didn't receive this decision well. He was concerned that working with an actress who had worked primarily in B-grade films till then would dent his image. However, Shantaram put his foot down and told him that Mumtaz would stay on even if it meant having to find another actor in place of Jeetendra.[1][2][3][4][MR15]
This was the second of two films for which Satish Bhatia composed music. He had debuted more than a decade ago for the film "Maldar" (1951).[5]
The film's opening credits were unusual and thematic in the tradition of previous V. Shantaram films. The credits showed a series of shells with a pearl each and credits painted on each shell's inside.
