Gang

Because director Mazhar Khan's health was poor, the film took about nine years to complete. After Mazhar Khan's death, assistant director Mashkoor Chowdhry completed the remaining portions of the film.

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The film draws inspiration from Reservoir Dogs (1992), Satya (1998) and Vaastav (1999), with a similar and altered plot.

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Nana Patekar burned his hands during the shooting of the film in 1990. This caused the shoot to be delayed by 40 days.

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Zeenat Aman had invested her money in this film when shooting began, and thanks to her and Bharat Shah the film was completed and released.

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Nutan, Amjad Khan and Vinod Mehra were also in the film, but because of their deaths other names were placed in their roles.

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When Mazhar Khan first approached Jackie Shroff for the film, he politely declined. He said he was going through a difficult period in his career and that it would be hard. But the real reason was that Mazhar Khan was an unknown and unproven director. Mazhar then approached Sunny Deol. Within 2 minutes Sunny told Mazhar he was busy and could not do his film. Mazhar then approached his university-days friend Anil Kapoor. Anil turned the film down, saying he would only do Mazhar Khan's film if it were a solo-hero film. Anil did not want to do a multi-starrer. In the end Jackie called Mazhar Khan and asked him to come and narrate the film. Within a few minutes Jackie agreed to do the film.

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Kumar Gaurav's daughter Saachi switched on the camera at the film's mahurat.

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While Gang was in production, it was known that Mazhar Khan would be a good director.

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RD Burman recorded one song for the film. After Burman's death, Anu Malik was brought in as music director and the lyrics were written by Javed Akhtar.

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Many websites list Amjad Khan's brother Inayat Khan in the film. This is wrong. He plays Amjad Khan's other brother, Imtiaz.

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This was actor Mazhar Khan's first attempt at directing.

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When the film was released, Amjad Khan and Imtiaz Khan shared the lead roles. When Amjad died suddenly, Imtiaz stepped into Amjad's role and Gulshan Grover stepped into Imtiaz Khan's role. Paresh Rawal was also asked to take on a role but he could not commit to it.

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Archana Puran Singh was to appear in the film but lost the role because of her ex-boyfriend Pankaj Parashar's friendship with Mazhar Khan.

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Mazhar Khan had previously produced the Indian adult film Bombay Fantasy together with K. N. Singh's love child Vibhushan Singh Paul (who has since emigrated to Ontario, Canada). Mazhar always denied this, but actor Pankaj Dheer, who directed the film, confirmed the news. Mazhar Khan stated that those trying to damage his reputation were hidden enemies in the industry.

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In a 1986 television interview, Mazhar Khan said he planned to make a film about the Indian mafia. He hoped that if all went well he would also direct the film. He announced that he had signed Dharmendra, Sanjay Dutt, himself, Farooq Shaikh, Javed Jaffery, Kimi Katkar, Neelam, Waheeda Rehman, Gulshan Grover, Prem Chopra, Imtiaz Khan and Amjad Khan. The film was eventually made as "Gang".

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Anu Agarwal was signed for the film but had to go to Paris for an ad shoot. She was later replaced by Ektaa Sohini.

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Actor Shashi Ranjan was Mazhar Khan's best friend. But when he realised that Mazhar would not sign him for the role that Javed Jaffery ultimately took, Shashi began constantly speaking ill of Mazhar.

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Mazhar Khan wanted Rubaina Khan (Gangster) for the film. However, at that time she did not want to act in films.

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Naseeruddin Shah was signed, but was later replaced by Javed Jaffery.

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The Bollywood song "Chhoone Se Tere" from Dil Ne Ikraar Kiya. The saxophone solo in the first section of this song is stolen/copied from the saxophone solo in George Michael (Wham)'s hit pop song "Careless Whisper" (1984). "Aaj Tu Mangley" from Gang (2000) was also sampled from George Michael's "Careless Whisper." The intro of "Aaj Tu Mangley" at 0:10 was inspired by En Vogue's "My Lovin (Never Gonna Get It)." "Careless Whisper" was used in the film Kaash Aap Hamare Hote, in the scene where Sonu Nigam comes home drunk.

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The film was released in cinemas in Canada.

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Shagufta Ali claimed that the film was terrible due to delays, that after Mazhar Khan's death it was reshot by others, that songs were added and the climax was changed, and that the editing was strange.

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