The film lay completed and unreleased for nearly 2 years. Yash Chopra saw the film and loved it. He suggested to Gulshan Rai to watch the film. Gulshan Rai and Rajiv Rai saw the film and loved it. But still no one came forward to buy it. Vidhu Chopra then released the film himself with a owner of a theatre in Bombay, They divided the profits 50/50. The film was a surprise hit.
Shabana Azmi, Amol Palekar, and Soni Razdan use their real names in portraying the "actors" in the film that is being shot within the film.
The entire movie shot in pahalgam hotel, Kashmir. And which is also shown in the movie.
The director Vinod Chopra's assistant Sanjay Leela Bansali made his directorial debut with the similarly titled film Khamoshi the Musical (1996).
"Khamosh" is a Hindi word meaning "Silence, or Silent" depending on the tone it's used in and word followed by.