Director Kunal Kohli gave Amir and Kajol Devgan a draft of the script, hoping they would agree. But it backfired. Both of them suggested changes to the script and made changes to their characters.
The film was shot in Poland because Kajol Devgan was afraid to shoot in the Jammu and Kashmir; Hindi-speaking areas for fear of terrorist attacks.
The title "Fanaa" is an Urdu word derived from the Arabic word for "destroy", which also means "destroy in love" in Sufi tradition. ".
Kajol Devgan and her mother recite the poem on the train from the 1976 RishiKapoor Amitabh Bachchan Waheeda Rehman movie KabhiKabhie Lara Dutta admits that she took the film only to work with Amir Kajol Devgan and to be close to Yashraj Films After that, she starred in "Jhoom Barabar Jhoom" by Yashraj Films.
In 2006, Fanaa was a box-office hit in Indian theaters, but its release in Gujarat was heavily blocked by the politicians who rule the state. The movie was banned because Khan was a Muslim.
