It received six Filmfare Awards, including Best Film in opposition to Raj Kapoor's Sangam (1964).Also got a National Award (Best Film Feature in Hindi), too. It was also screened at the Moscow International Film Festival 1965 as the official Indian entry.
The film had wide release of 90 prints that time which was an extraordinary number that time.
Mr Ramraj Nahata, editor of Film Information. He called up Tarachand Barjatya and congratulated and said that the advance booking queue has come up to his office. The theater was inside the lane and his office was on the main road."
Made on a very low budget made huge profits.Its second weekend did extremely well and it collected 2 Crore at the box office.
Sushil Kumar and Sudhir Kumar became stars with the film.But their career never took off.