After the film was finished and edited then legendary Indian director Satyajit Ray was invited to re-cut the film and uncredited re-edited the picture in just three days.
First film shot by cinematographer Subrata Mitra outside of Bengal and not with famed Indian director Satyajit Ray.
One of nine productions that Indian actor Shashi Kapoor made with Merchant Ivory Productions. The films include Bombay Talkie (1970), Side Streets (1998), In Custody (1994), The Deceivers (1988), Heat and Dust (1983), The Householder (1963), Shakespeare-Wallah (1965), In Ismail's Custody (1994), The Wandering Company (1985).
The Merchant Ivory official website states: "In 1961, Ismail Merchant and James Ivory paid a visit to the German-born novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, then living in Delhi, with a proposal to make a film of her novel 'The Householder'. Jhabvala agreed. She wrote the screenplay for the film herself, in ten days, and the Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala partnership was inaugurated."
First ever film produced by production house Merchant Ivory Productions (MIP).