Before launching of Shahid with Ishq Vishk. Shahid Kapoor was a group dancer and done music album video song Ankhon main tera h chehra and a famous pepsi ad alongwith Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukerjee in 1998. He was also a child artist where he did a complain ad with baby Ayesha Takia
Film was a musical hit.
This was both Shahid Kapoor and Vishal Malhotra's debut film in which they play good friends. In Kismat Konnection (2008), 6 years later, they also play two good friends throughout the film.
It was remade into an Indonesian film, Cinta Gak Kemana.
Yash Tonk got praised for his acting.