When London Dreams was planned, it was done on a very high scale. But due to recession director Vipul Shah had done a lot of planning for cost cutting sometime at the end of 2008. Salman Khan, Ajay Devgan and his senior technicians sat down and discussed how to cut down on the film making cost. Ajay Devgan and Salman Khan immediately agreed to have a pay cut so that the film could be made on the same lavish scale that it was initially planned.