 Saswata Chatterjee portrayed Nilkantha's character in the film.Kamaleswar Mukherjee told in an interview that Saswata was their first choice for this role as he felt ""Apu da"" was perfect to portray the character.Mahendra Soni, one of the producers of the film, later told if Saswata had denied to play the character then they would have asked Kamaleswar Mukherjee to act the role himself as they knew Mukherjee had a theatre background and is a good actor too.