Regarding her role in Arth,Rohini Hattangadi stated "Arth was towards the beginning, immediately after Gandhi. I never knew who Mahesh Bhatt was, or anything about the Hindi film industry. Only Kiran Vairale I knew from theatre and she said, 'Mahesh is looking for you and I will give you his address and you should go and meet him.' Shabana (Azmi) sent me a message: 'Don't say no to him, it's a good role.' So I went and met him and it was the maid's role which I think I liked actually. I liked the whole soul of that character because- they are so near to our lives, such characters. I remember my maid when I was a child. She was not formally educated. Her daughter was two years younger to me, she was studying in the same school as mine. So my mother used to keep my clothes, my school books, my uniformsthat I had outgrown. She used to keep those and pass them to her. Then afterwards I came to know, when I left Pune for the National School of Drama (NSD), that my maid's daughter, she went on to do the Montessori course and she was teaching in Montessori. So she had achieved something being a maid's daughter. So I had that in mind. And when I got to do this role, I immediately related to that.".
This Film is based on the relationship between Mahesh Bhatt and Parveen Babi
For almost two years the complete film was lying in the cans, no distributors wanted to buy it. Chitra Singh and Jagjit Singh's first film as music composers, though it was released after Prem Geet.
Navin Nischol was extremely angry with Mahesh Bhatt and would openly bash him to his face. The reason being was that when Mahesh Bhatt was planning Arth, he was going to cast Navin Nischol in the lead role. Mahesh use to sit and plan the film with Navin at Navin's home. They would sit and drink all night writing the film. Then one day Mahesh decided he did not want Navin and did not even inform him about his decision. After this Navin would blast Mahesh in the media and to Mahesh's face at every moment.
Mahesh Bhatt said that he always had copied Bimal Roy, Raj Kapoor, Guru Dutt and other big major filmmakers from Manzil Aur Bhi Hai to Lahu Ke Do Rang but those films, critically nor commercially did well. So he decided not to copy anyone"s style, but become original filmmaker and with his own style, when he made Arth and the gamble paid off.