[1] Ram (Raj Kapoor) is a poor law student who supports his education with money orders from his mother and things he pawns.

Phir Subha Hogi fared successfully at the box office and was the fourth highest-grossing film of the year 1958 behind Madhumati, Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi and Yahudi.

[3] Songs like "Chin-O-Arab Hamara" and "Woh Subah Kabhi To Aayegi" penned by Sahir Ludhianvi were satirical on the condition of India and the Nehruvian politics.

[5] Lal Krishna Advani, a senior leader of the BJP, many a time in his speeches, has talked about watching this movie along with his friend and colleague Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

He narrated an incident where in 1958 he and Vajpayee, after facing an electoral defeat in Delhi Municipal Corporation election, straightaway went to watch a movie.

Advani says that after Vajpayee became PM, he told party workers that the title of the movie had turned out to be prophetic and there was finally a dawn.