Actor Mohnish Bahl's daughter Pranutan Bahl recalled the initial days of her career and said that she faced rejections for 2.5 years before signing her first film. Pranutan added that she never used her surname in the auditions. "I auditioned...and never used my father's...name," she said. "When 'Notebook' was released nobody knew that [Mohnish Bahl] was my dad," she added.