In 2016, the film was screened at the "Independence Day Film Festival" by the Directorate of Film Festivals and the Ministry of Defence. On Independence Day in 2017, ZeeTV premiered the film on Zee Classic. In the backdrop of the 2017 Doklam standoff Haqeeqat was again remembered by the Indian media as a comparison for 1962 and the current tensions; to be specific the last stand of Ahir Company, 13 Kumaon led by Major Shaitan Singh at Rezang La. In the backdrop of the 2020 China–India skirmishes, on 6 July 2020, an article in "The Quint" by Pankhuri Shukla comments on the "unsanitized" two-hour long portrayal of war in the film. The fights are not "sugarcoated" and the internal conflict of what is means to be a soldier are depicted. In July 2020, "Filmfare" listed Haqeeqat as one of Bollywood's top war films.