 The film was a remake of the Telugu movie "Punarjanma" (1963) and it was simultaneously made in Tamil movie "Engirundho Vandhaal", with Sivaji Ganesan and Jayalalithaa, and later on in Malayalam as "Amrithavaahini".The film received six nominations at the 18th Filmfare Awards in 1971, of which it won the Filmfare Best Movie Award and Filmfare Best Actress Award for Mumtaz.Other nominations were for Best Actor (Sanjeev Kumar), Best Comic (Jagdeep), Best Story (Gulshan Nanda) and Best Male Playback Singer (Mohammed Rafi).