Vikram Seth's 1993 novel A suitable boy mentions how people burst into tears while watching the film and who couldn't get tickets for film started riot.
Film established Dilip Kumar as tragedy king.
Many years later when film was re run Manoj Kumar went to watch with Raj Khosla.After watching the film they wrote story of Do Badan 1966 after reworking the story line.
Tabassum and Parikshit Sahani were child artist in the film.