 "Ankush" has earned the status of a cult classic over time, and the ending scene which symbolizes their hanging in front of the India Gate has received much attention.The film is one of the very first realistic depictions of inner city adolescents growing up in an atmosphere of social and economic deprivation.The film was remade in Tamil as "Kavithai Paada Neramillai" and in Kannada as "Ravana Rajya".