[1] Written by Faizal Akhtar and Shrabani Deodhar, the film is based on India's first stuntwoman, Reshma Pathan.

[4] The title refers to Sholay, in which Pathan worked as a stunt double for Hema Malini.

[8][9][10] Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in called it "an undeniably uplifting biopic that pays tribute to Reshma’s daring and can-do spirit".

But she felt that the film "softens the rough edges and underplays the exploitative conditions under which she often worked.

He then wrote: "In the one hour 25-minute film, with the colloquy, trickle and resonance of Reshma, the whole story of adventurer and Himmatwali Stantwoman explains in the sequels.