Trivia

' AAKHREE RAASTA ' is still considered as Amitabh Bachchan's one of the finest performances to date .

The film was earlier titled Qaid Ki Diary.

Amitabh Bachchan disagreed in argument with the director over the graveyard scene. The director wanted the father and son to have a heated argument in English in the graveyard. Amitabh disagreed with him and said viewers would not be able to understand so much in English. The director refused to budge and told Amitabh what he was saying was not important, the language was important and explained, there is a background to that scene. The father, who is illiterate, marries an educated woman. She teaches him everything, including English. She tells him one day, 'If you had studied, you would have been a master of English. Now, you will not be able to retaliate if my son fights with you.' He challenges that he can. Now, both the father and son were in the graveyard where the mother was cremated. He wanted his dead wife to hear him fighting with his son in English. The director felt what he said was immaterial, only the language mattered. Amitabh Bachchan refused the director did not relent. When this whole debate ended up in heated argument, the producer asked the unit to go out so that Amitabh and the director could fight it out. Finally, the director told Amitabh, 'You just see. Once you start in English, people will start clapping. Anyway, we will shoot in both languages. I want you to show my version to somebody and watch their reaction. If you are not satisfied, we will have the Hindi version.' Amitabh thought for a while and said, 'Sir, you are the captain. If you feel so strongly about it, let us have it the way you want it. We need not waste any film and time.'

On the DVD version of Aakhri Raasta, 'Sridevi's voice is actually dubbed by Rekha. This is not the only time this has happened. Soundarya's voice was dubbed by Rekha in Amitabh Bachchan's Sooryavansham (1999).

Producer Poorna Chandra had been asking south Indian film director K Bhagyaraj (whose several south Indian films had been remade into Hindi films) to direct a Hindi film, after the producer persisting several times, K Bhagyaraj gave an outline first. Poorna Chandra liked the story so much that he wanted him to write a screenplay and give it to him. Initially the story was made into a Tamil film by Bharatiraja based on this script, Oru Kaithiyin Diary (1984) with Kamal Hassan. Poorna Chandra was adamant of making the Hindi version with Amitabh Bachchan. Amitabh was brought to Chennai for the story narration, he liked it. But was a little doubtful about the directors ability to direct an action film, as he had done only family oriented subjects, after some discussion Amitabh agreed and signed on.