The first of Amrita Pritam's books to be filmed was "Dharti Sagar te Sippiyan", as "Kadambari" (1965), followed by "Unah Di Kahani", as "Daaku" (Dacoit, 1976), directed by Basu Bhattacharya. Her novel "Pinjar" (The Skeleton, 1950) narrates the story of partition riots along with the crisis of women who suffered during the times. It was made into an award-winning Hindi movie by Chandra Prakash Dwivedi, because of its humanism: "Amritaji has portrayed the suffering of people of both the countries." "Pinjar" was shot in a border region of Rajasthan and Punjab.