[1] The film stars Shobana, Arif Zakaria and Anoushka Shankar in her acting debut.

[4] After liking Arif Zakaria's performance as a eunuch in Darmiyaan (1997),[5] he was cast in this film and underwent training in Bharatanatyam.

[9] A critic from Rediff.com and wrote that "Dance Like A Man can be lauded for trying, though it could have done much better to rise above the bookishness that often hampers the script".

The director uses the past and present in alternating sequences to tell the story and the visual imagery contrasts and merges with the narration.

Adding mood to the striking frames are the classically tuned background score by Ganesh-Kumaresh, which heightens the sense of time and ambience in an artiste' s environment.