Ram Gopal Varma recalled that when Amitabh Bachchan saw 'Bhoot', he said that he "almost felt like beating" the director up. "[He said], 'I was hating myself thinking: Why the hell did I...see this?'," revealed Varma. The film's co-writer Sameer Sharma further said that initially Abhishek Bachchan was going to do 'Bhoot', which eventually went to Ajay Devgn.