came back prepared the next day. She pleased Chopra with her performance and was thereafter signed. Ashwini Bhave was also one of those who had auditioned for the role. She was rejected on the spot. Nana Patekar, who had previously worked with Chopra in Parinda (1989), was selected to portray Raghuvir Pathak. But he insisted on being cast as Shubankar, which caused a rift between him and Chopra. Anupam Kher was later signed for the role. Mithun Chakraborty had also been briefly considered for the role of Shubankar, when Shroff developed date issues. The distributors, however, somehow made Chopra retain Shroff in the film. Since the production started in the early 90s, it was speculated that Sanjay Kapoor was to replace his brother Anil as the latter's film Lamhe (1991) had not been successful. Nevertheless, it did not materialize. Filming Principal photography for the film, being handled by Binod Pradhan, took place mainly at various locations in Himachal Pradesh, including the district Chamba, Dalhousie, Khajjiar and the Kalatop Sanctuary to depict pre-independence India.An artificial set resembling Dalhousie was created in the Mumbai Filmcity, since it was an expensive proposition to take the entire cast and crew there. It was erected by art director Nitin Desai with a cost of . According to Desai, many people told Chopra not to give chance to him, as he was a newcomer; yet Chopra had full faith on him. Music The film score was composed by Manohari Singh and Babloo Chakravorty while the film's original songs were composed by R. D. Burman, who died before the release of the film, with lyrics by Javed Akhtar. R. D. Burman won his last Filmfare Award for Best Music Director and Javed Akthar bagged the Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist for "Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To". Kumar Sanu won his 5th consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer for "Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To" and Kavita Krishnamurthy won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for "Pyar Hua Chupke Se", the first of her hat-trick feat. The music in the introduction of the film is from Gustav Holst's The Planets - Mars the bringer of war. Release 1942: A Love Story was released on 15 April 1994. It opened to positive reviews from critics, with praise drawn towards the cast performances, cinematography, and the soundtrack by R. D. Burman. Amitabh Bachchan had attended the preview