Madhuri DIxit was embarrassed by her role in Vardi. When it started out she had a good role of a cancer patient who loves Jackie and has to die in the end. So the seduction scene was justified. But Madhuri felt there were way too many characters in the film and the film became to long. So when the time came to edit the film, her character was slashed because it was the only one outside of the story.
Rahul Rawail was to direct the film but opted out.
The film was a hit at the box office and helped revive the careers of Sunny Deol and Jackie Shroff as action heroes.
The film was originally started as "Shehzaade" but later changed after Rahul Rawail and Javed Akhtar decided not to work with the producers. That is when Shabd Kumar came on board and wrote a fresh script titled "Vardi".
Kader Khan's son Sarfaraz stated " I was scared of my dad when I was a child. I saw his film Vardi, where he played the double role of Lalchand and Balkishan. His villainous character was called Lalchand and he was so bad that I was afraid of him even at home. When dad got angry, I would think that now he will become like Lalchand!".