[9] The teaser received mixed reviews due to the resemblance of the story line with Bollywood's 2006 coming-of-age drama Rang De Basanti.

[14] The cast also includes veterans such as Samina Ahmed, Manzar Sehbai (who played the older version of Munawar), Marina Khan, Javed Sheikh and Farhan Ally Agha.

[17] For the sake of promotion of the film, Aly and Khan made appearances in various TV shows including Jeeto Pakistan[18] and Waseem Badami's Har Lamha Purjosh.

[21] Maheen Sabeeh of The News International praised the cast performances, particularly Aly, Sheheryar Munawar, and Manzar Sehbai, but critiqued the film's execution, logic, character development, and the film's narrative, calling it a "jingoistic mess" that distorts history and promotes hate, and further found it as "confusing, historically inaccurate" that "sells the idea of breeding hate.

"[22] Madiha Arsalan of The Friday Times found it as a "well scripted and executed film" with notable performances from Sajal Aly and Bilal Abbas, and lauded the set design, costumes, makeup, choreography, cinematography, dialogues, and songs but critiqued its unclear and confused narrative.