 However, the film is actually a 2008 film since it began its wide film festival, theatrical, broadcast, networks, streaming runs in the same year.Many organizations including the Indo-American Arts Council (on March 8, 2009) considered it a "seminal film" because of its historic significance as the world's first film on this subject.On May 21, 2008, "Filmmaker" magazine said the same adding that the film was "Shot in 12 countries over six years, Sharma's film is an intelligent and eloquent exposition of a taboo subject that not only movingly pays tribute to the strength and integrity of the film's embattled subjects but – despite its provocative title – maintains a reverent rather than critical attitude towards the Islamic religion.