Actress Neelam Kothari Soni said in a chat with Hauterrfly that she was never in a relationship with Govinda and that the link-ups were "part of the whole game". "If you did more than 2-3 films, it was just understood that...(you were dating)," she added. In a 1990 interview, Govinda had said that he was in love with Neelam.