The first cut of the film was 7 hours and 30 minutes long.
Aamir Khan wore his wife's earrings for the role of Bhuvan.
The movie had the biggest number of British actors ever to be cast in a single movie in the history of Indian Cinema.
The movie was shot in villages of Kutchh (Gujarat). Bhuj was destroyed in an earthquake on 26th January 2001, six months after the movie was shot.
The first Bollywood production in 30 years to use synchronized sound. An Arri535 camera, brought over from Germany, was used to facilitate sync-sound recording. Most Indian films are dubbed entirely in the studio in the process known as ADR.