 It was featured in the book "Take 2 – 50 Films That Deserve a New Audience" by Deepa Gehlot, who described the story as -"a story of one man’s good fortune, his attempts to help others and a tragic outcome".In a 1963 interview, Motilal had said the following about the film, and his character -"He has an air of ineffable sadness and, inside of him, he is full of goodness to the world—a world which hasn’t been all good to him, in which he finds ultimate dignity only in death.His name is Motilal, too.I play him in “Chhoti Chhoti Batein”, the film I have laboured much to put together bit by bit.This is my most recent role but the one I have wanted to do longest.In visualising the Motilal of my film, a suburban philosopher, a man who is silently asking himself