When Yash Chopra wanted to make this he had already decided that Dilip Kumar's character won't be smuggler and Anil Kapoor would not be an Police officer, as it regular in other films. So Journalism was brought in the film. When Javed Akhtar wrote the script the running time of the film would be more than 3 hours. So Javed shortened the script the running time of Mashaal became 2hrs 40 mints.

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