 The film was remade in Telugu as "Kumkuma Rekha" (1960) and in Tamil as "Pudhiya Pathai" also released in 1960.The film starts with the portrayal of happily married couple, "Amar" (Sunil Dutt) and "Malti" (Meena Kumari) who have a son named "Raja" (Daisy Irani).Amar and Malti are both orphans and hence are sympathetic towards orphans generally.