Actor Nana Patekar recalled working with Pankaj Tripathi in the 2018 film Kaala, which also starred Rajinikanth. He said he told Tripathi he would "beat him" for doing a "chota sa role (small role)" in the film. "I told him, 'You are a very big actor. You won’t become big by working with us, you are already big'," Nana said.