 Critiquing the actress with "I see urgency, pain but no sadness" and "I see anger and vulnerability but no guilt", the director pushed Panag to her limits.She felt that Kukunoor was such a man of conviction that he constantly forgot to eat and this once caused him a stomach infection.Gul Panag, on the other hand, said that her role was very multi-dimensional, multi-layered and hence it was quite tough to play the character.