[3] While he was allowed to make a few changes to the design, the original pose of the bull was retained owing to the animal's identity in stock markets as a symbol of money.

The BSE later commissioned him to create a thousand miniature replicas made of fibre to be given as souvenirs to visiting foreign dignitaries.

[4] The sculpture came into news after the stock market crash of January 2008, when the Sensex lost 14% in two days and ₹180,000 crore (equivalent to ₹5.0 trillion or US$58 billion in 2023) in a week, along its year-long descent from 20,000 to 8,000.

[3][4] In 2017, prior to its relocation to GIFT City, the BSE decided to allow visitors to photograph the bull.

The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) objected to this, claiming that it was inconveniencing people on the road and asked for it to be removed.