Filmmaker Siddharth P Malhotra recalled working as assistant director on Vidhu Vinod Chopra's 1998 movie 'Kareeb'. He shared, "I remember as an assistant, a call used to come and then I used to run, go somewhere and then come back...ragging would happen, thappads would happen, everything happened." Malhotra said his father had asked Vidhu to grind him.