Rajkumar Santoshi wrote Ghayal and Ghatak for Kamal Hassan.

Nothing more came after the announcement. In 1988, there was talk of B.K.Adarsh signing Rajkumar Santoshi to direct a film to star Naseeruddin Shah, Kamal Haasan and Sunny Deol. When Dilp was unable to, Kamal lost all interest and sold the films story to Mushir and Riaz. He requested Dilip Kumar to play his father. Wanted to remake and star in Tevar Magan's Hindi version. Anil Kapoor ended up getting signed for the role. Kamal had suffered a leg injury and was unable to do the film. Feroz Khan first offered Janbaaz to Kamal Hassan. It would be 18 years later when they would work together in Hey Ram. Feeling taken granted for,Naseer turned down the film. Naseer's argument was that if it was small art film why was he casting himself and Jaya Pradha in the film. This angered Naseer and he told Kamal to leave. He approached Naseeruddin Shah for a role and told him it was a small art film and he wanted him to work for free. Kamal Hassan wanted to produce a Hindi film with Jaya Pradha in 1983, directed by K.Vishwanathan. He later opted out and was replaced by Anil Kapoor. Kamal Haasan signed the film Joshilaay in 1983. Kamal declined as he did not have the required dates. The film was titled Sangeet at that point. Subhash Ghai wanted Kamal Haasan in Hero. Ketan Desai was to make his directorial debut. Manmohan Desai signed Rajesh Khanna( For Biswajeet's role),Hema Malini (for Waheeda Rehman's role),Kamal Hassan( For Jackie Shroff's role),Salma Agha( For Meenakshi Sheshadri's role),Padmini Kholapure( For Dimple Kapadia's role), Anita Raaj (For Aruna Irani's role),Jackie Shroff( For Gulshan Grover's role), Mazhar Khan ( For Shammi Kapoor's role). The film 'Allah Rakha' was first originally planned in 1981. Then in the year 1984, director T.Rama Rao made a film with Rajnikant and he used the same tittle. The film's title was from the song of Manmohan Desai's Naseeb's song, but this film was shelved without any reason. Starring Amitabh Bachchan,Mithun Chakraborthy (Replaced Randhir Kapoor), Kamal Hassan (Replaced Rishi Kapoor). It features the Hindi films and the Tamil -Hindi Bilingual In 1981 after the success of Dostana and Naseeb, producer Yash Johar had launched John Jani Janardhan (Ringo) with a lot fanfare with Manmohan Desai as the director.

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