Ravindra Dave had planned to remake his Hindi blockbuster film
Nagina (1951) with
Leena Chandavarkar and
Sanjay Khan, but the project was delayed. As a result, he turned his production crew to Gujarati cinema to keep them employed. The film is based on local folk legend of bandit Jesal Jadeja who was preached and reformed by Kathi saint-woman Toral. Their memorial shrines are located in
Anjar in
Kutch district,
Gujarat. It was the first
Eastmancolor Gujarati film and was a debut film of
Upendra Trivedi and
Ramesh Mehta. It was shot in Orvo technicolor. As the Laxmi Studio at
Baroda was not yet commissioned, the film was partly shot in
Kutch and partly in Mumbai. == Soundtrack ==