Nawazuddin Siddiqui waited almost 20 years to work with Sudhir Mishra, according to him in an interview with Hindustan times, he went to the sets of Calcutta mail (2000) for work but couldn't find any.
The journalist who questions Acharya in the first conference is the novel writer Manu Joseph himself
Based on the novel of the same name "Serious Men" written by the journalist Manu Joseph in 2010.