This was Malayalam film singer Yesudas's first Hindi film song. He had recorded songs for the shelved film "Anand Mahal" (1977) earlier, but its audio records were released two years after this film.[1]
Part of this song was filmed on Dharmendra and Hema Malini, but they were not credited for their cameo appearance. They were featured in a fictitious film Amol Palekar's character was watching in the film. Actors Sujit Kumar and Manmohan also had uncredited cameos in this song.
Salil Chowdhury had originally composed the tune of this song for the Bengali non-film song "Prajapati Prajapati" (1972), sung by Sabita Chowdhury. He had also used the tune of this song earlier for the Telugu film song "Tikku Taaku" ("Chairman Chalamayya", 1974), sung by S.P. Balasubramaniam and P. Susheela.[2][3]