The series shows the daily struggles of the recruits including physical training, the pranks they play on each other, and the punishments they receive from their officers.

Shah Rukh Khan's character Abhimanyu Rai ( based on Col Sanjoy Banerjee of the Bengal Sappers, Indian Army), was supposed to have been the second lead.

However Lt. Col. Raj Kumar Kapoor said in an interview that the camera “loved him so much” that they had to change the script to prop up Khan as the lead.

[2] He said, “I landed up on the sets of ‘Fauji’, because the house-owner that we were speaking to after we needed a smaller house post the demise of my father, got to know that I'd been in Mumbai to act, and he revealed that his own father-in-law was producing a TV serial.

"When I went there, Colonel Kapoor (producer-director) offered me this sweet role, where I make a mistake and the Major would ask me to go a tree and count the number of crows in it.