iman ali was first chosen as the female lead but was replaced by mehwish hayat. however, saeed later clarified that iman ali was never officially a part of the film and that they were just in talks, and that he and iman ali mutually agreed that she would not be cast in this film. sohai ali abro was initially approached for durdana's role which she refused to do. talking about this, saeed asserted, "we did approach sohai for urwa's role but she wasn't comfortable doing it. maybe she expected a bigger role and this just wasn't delivering it."