Actor Jugal Hansraj recalled that Shabana Azmi maintained distance from him during the shooting of the 1983 film Masoom. Hansraj explained that Azmi, playing his stepmother, kept a distance to portray the on-screen coldness and discomfort between their characters effectively. He noted Azmi was more friendly with the other child actors, her on-screen daughters, as part of her method acting process to enhance the film's realism.