Trivia

Official submission of Pakistan for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 32nd Academy Awards in 1960.

Just days before the film was to premier, the new government of Pakistan (under Ayub Khan) asked the film's producer, Nauman Taseer not to release the film. The writer, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, was later imprisoned by the government for his communist beliefs.Actress Tripti Mitra and her husband Sombhu Mitra were also politically left-leaning, and members of the leftist Indian People's Theatre Association in the 1940s. When the film did premier in London, members of Pakistan's High Commission to the United Kingdom disobeyed instructions from the Pakistani government not to attend.

Tripti Mitra was the only professional actor in the cast.