The film stars Khan himself, Sanjay Dutt, Kabir Bedi, Nagma, Manisha Koirala, Vicky Arora, Mukesh Khanna, Deepti Naval and Neena Gupta.
Upon release the film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the performances of Dutt, Bedi and Nagma, the music and the action sequences, while criticising the length and Khanna playing Khan's father, despite a large age difference.
[3] Childhood friends become enemies when one of them, Mahendra Ashwini Kumar becomes Additional Commissioner of Police and the other Raj Pratap Singhal becomes a smuggler.
All lyrics are written by Sudarshan Faakir and Aziz Qaisi; all music is composed by Channi SinghRelease, planned for 1987, had to be postponed due to Khan's mother death that year.
[5] In his book about Sanjay Dutt, Yaseer Usman called the film "terrible and eminently forgettable", and stated that the director had kept the best parts of this big-venture budget for himself.