After principal filming was complete, the 2014 Peshawar School Massacre, in which 132 school children and nine other people were killed, occurred on December 16, 2014. The film touches upon the massacre, and presents the following backlash against the Taliban and other extremist groups. Abdul Aziz comments on the massacre in the film, saying that the deaths were unfortunate, but an understandable product of aggression against extremists by the government. Publicly Abdul Aziz refused to condemn the attack, which fed backlash against him personally.