It is not mawkish or sentimental or commonplace. "Story mawkish and over sentimental", agreed "Film Daily". It would be unbearably mawkish if it were played too solemnly. Pete Paphides of "The Times" panned its ballads, called them a "slopfest of mawkish penitence". "The Indian Express" called the story "lacklustre", its narration "mawkish" and the dialogue "gibberish". James Huneker called parts of it "mawkish" and "without nobility".