It is the first English-language Bangladeshi film about the Bangladesh liberation war[1] that features Sabyasachi Chakrabarty and Subhra Sourav Das in lead role.

[2] On 3 December 1971, Jean Eugene Paul Kay, a French citizen, hijacked a Boeing 720 owned by Pakistan International Airlines at Orly Airport.

He demanded that the government of France sent 20 tons of relief and medicines to the camps of East Bengali refugees in India and people of East Pakistan in the support of the Bangladesh liberation war.

[citation needed] Fakhrul Arefeen Khan, director of the film, announced its production on 9 March 2021.

The director said that the production of JK 1971 would start from April 2021 in West Bengal.