The film was scripted and directed by Ali Akbar Kamal, an Afghan-Canadian filmmaker who disliked the way his homeland was portrayed in the West and decided to make a film that told a story from an Afghan viewpoint. Kamal, a graduate of the Toronto Film School, decided to make the first Afghan superhero film as a way of rebutting Western stereotypes about Afghanistan. The film was shot on location in Kabul in June–July 2016.
