Screenwriter Salim Khan said he doesn't think Baba Siddique died because of his son and actor Salman Khan. "I don't think there's any relation...What relation does Siddique have to this?" Salim said. After the interviewer said there's narrative in media that Lawrence Bishnoi gang killed Siddique over his closeness to Salman, Salim said, "You can make a relation between everything."