Producer Hasmukh Shah didn't want the film to get embroiled in controversy, so the character named Dawood (alluding to Dawood Ibrahim) was renamed as Dadua.[1]
Subhash K. Jha of IANS wrote that "Shrill, shallow and shrieked-out AK-47 is the pavement-friendly actioner that you thought had ceased manufacture in Bollywood's dream factory. But it's back. And what can we do about it?"[3]Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama rated the film one-and-a-half out of five stars and wrote that "On the whole, AK 47 is an ordinary fare".[4]