The raw reconstruction of partition riots and sloganeering led to riot-like situations at theatres screening the film, and the film flopped at the box office.

He safely repatriated Hindu families during the partition riots.

It also had been the Sikhs who were responsible for many of the massacres of Muslim civilians during the partition riots.

Nazir's studio and the offices of Hind Pictures were burnt down during the partition riots in 1946-47 and in 1947, Nazir migrated to Pakistan.

The book also mentions the partition riots as well as the refugee camps.

Hey Ram (2000) - a Tamil-Hindi by Kamal Haasan about a fictitious plot to kill Gandhi by a man devastated by partition riots and his change of heart even as the real-life plot succeeds.

Bir Ghaggar was established during 1947 partition riots when the refugees coming from Pakistan took shelter in this partially forest covered area.

While partition riots and mass migration had significantly reduced the Hindu and Sikh population in West Pakistan, Hindus still constituted twenty percent of the population of East Bengal (also East Pakistan).

This brewery, built in the Gothic style of architecture, was burnt during the partition riots of 1947/48, while the brewery in Quetta was destroyed in the 1935 Balochistan earthquake.

Theatrical screenings of the film were disrupted by violent demonstrations in response to its raw depiction of the partition riots and related sloganeering.