According to Mahesh Bhatt, a big part of the film is inspired from his real life relationship with his first wife Kiran Bhatt.
Saloons and barbers were making excellent money during the time from the then-in-demand 'Rahul Roy hair cut'.The song 'Meri Dil Tere Liye' is inspired by and a reworking of 'You're the Voice' by John Farnham.Mahesh Bhatt had gone to Indira Roy's house to congratulate her on being on India's Savvy Magazine. Indira is the mother of Rahul Roy.This is where he spotted Rahul Roy and signed him up.Kumar Sanu the singer has played a small role of a thug in the movie...he gets thrashed by Rahul Roy when the group of thugs attack the runaway couple in the woods after the Jane Jigar Janeman song.Mahesh Bhatt was very impressed with the audience's reaction to Rahul Roy that he later casted him in Jaanam (1992) and Junoon (1992).Aditya Pancholi dubbed over the voice of Rahul Roy. Pancholi was also part of Mahesh Bhatt's Saathi (1991).T Series stopped counting the sales of Aashiqui 1990 audio cassettes once the sales reached 1 Crore.After the success of the film singer Kumar Sanu became an overnight star he had sung almost all the songs in the film which proving to be big hit.The soundtrack album has been rated the 4th best ever by Planet Bollywood on their '100 Greatest Bollywood Soundtracks'The songs were recorded to be released as an album, but when Mahesh Bhatt listened to the songs he convinced composer Gulshan Kumar producer) that he will write and direct a film for placing the songsDeepak Tijori's got a major breakthrough with this film as Rahul Roy's friend later was cast as hero's friend in many big films in early 90s.Kumar Sanu and music director Nadeem Shravan later collaborated for many films in 90s their pairing worked for every film making its music a big hit.The male version songs were sung by Kumar Sanu except for Mera Dil Tere Liye by Udit Narayan. Female version songs were sung by Anuradha Paudwal.Deepak Tijori was initially supposed to play the lead role but Mahesh Bhatt choose Rahul Roy and gave Deepak Tijori the supporting role.Mahesh Bhatt wanted daughter Pooja Bhatt in the lead role. But Pooja Bhatt was not ready to be an actress in 1989.The college scenes in the film were based on real life incidents of Mahesh Bhatt and his wife Kiran, when they were students.After the success of Maine Pyar Kiya with newcomers, Mahesh Bhatt thought he should also make a film with newcomers and Ashiquie was the result.Actress Roshni of Guna (Tamil) fame was first signed for the film. She was later replaced by Anu Aggarwal.Gulshan Kumar heard the song ' Duniya Mein Tere Siva' from the film Aandhiyaan and told Nadeem Shravan about it. They later recreated that same tune as 'Main Duniya Bhula Doonga'.Despite being a big musical hit the film was not Nadeem-shravan's biggest box office hit in 1990. That honor goes to Baap numbri beta dus numbri, which was one of the biggest hits of 1990.The music of the film was such a big hit that even after 25 years of its release, it's still very much in vogue.Mahedh Bhatt had first signed Sachin to dub for Rahul Roy but later changed his mind.Dheere Dheere Se was sampled from Joy Sims song Come Into My Life.Deepak Tijori wanted to play the lead role and had approached Mahesh Bhatt with the video cassette of the original English film.Mahesh Bhatt felt that lead actors were not really good looking. So in the films posters he decided to hide their faces under a coat. This particular experiment became one of the film's highlight.The film had a theatrical release in Canada in 1992. This was 2 years after it had already released on VHS video. The film was shown in theaters due to huge public demand.Deepak Tijori and Rahul Roy shared same room during the shoot and became best friends since then.Rahil Roy signed the film without even knowing the script.Mahesh Bhatt met Anu Agarwal at a party and offered her a film, but she rejected. it Six months later he called her and reminded her about their meeting. This time she heard the script and signed it.Rahul Roy signed 49 films after the films release. But he had to return the advance for 26 films, as a rule saying an actor could do only 12 films at a time, was passed.Kareena Kapoor recently confessed that her first crush was Aashique fame Rahul Roy