Trivia

Hrishikesh Mukherjee stated : I took to the idea out of sheer defence. Ashok Kumar used to always joke that I had made so many films with him as a character artiste, but none as a hero. One day I phoned and told him, 'If you don't stop teasing me, Imight just end up making a hero out of a buddha.' He laughed it off thinkingI was joking. I wasn't. The day I had the story of Aashirwad on hand, I told Dadamoni that the time had come for the buddha to play hero. That's howAashirwad was born. Aashirwad won the National Award for the best film. Dadamoni received the best actor and the Bharat Ratna.

Actor Harindranath Chattopadhyay debuted as a playback singer and lyricist in this film.

Jhir Jhir Barse Sawani Ankhiyan from Aashirwad. This Vasant Desai song used two different tunes for its two antaras. The tune of the second antara in this song may have been Vasant Desai's basis for the antara of one of his most popular songs - "Bole Re Papihara" ("Guddi", 1971).

Ashok Kumar made a return to playback singing with five songs to his credit in this film. He had started his career in the 1930s as a singer-actor but had restricted himself to acting after playback singing became prevalent in the late 1940s.

Director Hrishikesh Mukherjee dedicated the film to B.N. Sircar, the founder of the New Theatres film production company, and to filmmaker V. Shantaram. Mukherjee had started his film career in the 1940s as a cinematographer and editor in the Calcutta-based New Theatres.