In an interview to the "Mumbai Mirror", Karan Kapoor mentioned how during the shooting of this film, Shatrughan Sinha would arrive four hours late and then manage to memorize his lines very quickly.
Amrish Puri's character's look was inspired by 2 character's in the movie Mad Max 2 - Road Warrior. The character's of "Wez" and " Golden Youth". The same mohawk look was adapted by professional wrestler Joe Laurinaitis for his character of "Animal" in the tag team of The Road Warriors (Legion of Doom).
10 years later Dharmendra did another film by same name Loha 1997.
Dharmendra's first hit in 1987 where he had 7 more hits after this.
Slightly inspired by Wages of Fear.