Given John Abraham's penchant for performing his own stunts, Satyameva Jayate director Milap Zaveri was not surprised when he refused to employ a body double for the self-flagellation sequence in the song, Tajdar-E-Haram. However, the filmmaker reveals that Abraham suffered injuries while depicting the ritual performed during Muharram.

Recollecting the four-day shoot in Wadala, Zaveri says, "We had to use real knives because the audience would be able to tell the fake ones from the real. By the fourth take, John had suffered multiple cuts. Since he had makeup on, we didn't realise that he was bleeding. It was only after we had canned the shot that he rushed to get medical help."