In 1989, a film adaptation of the novel was released, starring Mammootty as Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan.
Muhammad | Muhammad Ali | Muhammad Yunus | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Muhammad Iqbal | Muhammad Ali of Egypt | Hussain Muhammad Ershad | Muhammad Shah | Raja Muhammad Fayyaz Ahmad | Muhammad al-Mahdi | Muhammad Ahmad | Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi Qadri | Nur Muhammad Taraki | Muhammad Saleh Kamboh | Muhammad al-Baqir | Idris Muhammad | Atta Muhammad Nur | Shafi Muhammad Burfat | Muhammad Siddique Dar | Muhammad Shahidullah | Muhammad Shafiq Jamal | Muhammad Ibrahim Habsade | Muhammad al-Tawil of Huesca | Muhammad al-Idrisi | Muhammad Abduh | Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad | Mir Sher Muhammad Talpur | Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan | Amin Saad Muhammad al-Zumari | Alyan Muhammad Ali al-Wa'eli |
Its early contributors included prominent personalities in Malayalam literature such as MT Vasudevan Nair, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, N. P. Mohammed, C. Radhakrishnan and artists such as BM Gafoor, Yesudasan, Paul Kallanode and Venu.