Few days back there has been news that Om Puri will be playing the role of freedom fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak. But now it is being said that senior actor Govind Namdev will be playing the role. Also it has been said that the director of the movie has also being changed. The writer of the movie Dheeraj Mishra said that the movie of the film has started few months back. But the director of the movie Milan Ajmera fell ill and thus the shooting was stopped. Now Devendra Pandey will be directing the movie. And then when everything was going right, there occurred the dates issue of Om Puri. They tried to sort out the matter, but no solution could not be found out. Then Govind Namdev was choosen for the character. It has been said that Chapekar brothers 26 years ago has made movie on freedom in Tamil. But they wanted to do something new, that is why there has been lot of changes in the movie.