First film to star Abhishek and Aishwarya after wedding.
Sequel to Sarkar.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, was signed onto the movie because of her marriage to Abhishek Bachchan creating a new lease on her career.
Victor Banerjee appeared in an Amitabh Bachchan movie for the first ever time, but never shared screen space. Victor Banerjee was playing a negative role.
In Sarkar Raj when Shanker admits to Anita about killing his brother, there is strange camera movement.That's a trolley forward zoom back shot which was first used to maximum effect by Steven Spielberg in jaws to capture Roy Scheider's reaction on the beach when he looks at the boy on the raft being attacked by the shark.