Naam

'Chitthi Ayi Hai' had become such a popular song that it was often rerun in theater on audience's demand after the movie used to finish. The song particularly resonated with peoples feelings that time as thousands of people were migrating to Middle East in search of success.

Sanjay Dutt's comeback and a turning point in his career.

Rajendra Kumar made this film for saving the fading career of his son Kumar Gaurav and hence wanted him to play the main lead (Sanjay Dutt's role). But Kumar Gaurav being Sanjay's best friend kept his friendship above everything and hence to revive Sanjay's fading career insisted Rajendra Kumar to take him in the main lead. Rajendra Kumar disagreed to this as he predicted that all the accolades will go to Sanjay's character and Gaurav's role will be overshadowed but finally gave in. Still Kumar Gaurav gave a stunning performance in the film which is also highly appreciable and considered as one of his best performances till date.

There are some scenes in naam of sanjay dutt ironing his clothes and kumar gaurav wearing sanjay's shirt, fight etc, salim khan wrote these scenes as he saw his sons salman, abraaz and sohail doing same thing, so salim saab insert these scenes by seeing his sons. When rajendra kumar went to salim khan's home to see the script, rajendra liked the script but he start to make changes in the script, salim saab stood quitly very anoyed as his work is being spoiled. Rajendra looked at salim and he reliased he told salim he wont make any changes naam will be made as salim khan has written.

The first film of writer salim khan who first wrote indepedently. Laxmikant-pyarelal composed the film's background music like classy music of english film background musis. Nutan performed very well.pankaj udhas first filmy appereance, anupam kher dubbed for the actor played Poonam dhilion"s father, poonam had replaced farha, the editor of this film was david dhawan and this was 2nd film which mahesh bhatt shot in hong kong the 1st was lahu ke do rang.