''Begunah''() is a 1957

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n romance film produced by Anupchand Shah and Mahipatray Shah. The film directed by

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under the Rup Kamal Chitra company. The film was released on 8 March 1957.

Cast

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* Shakila * Helen * Jaikishan Dayabhai Panchal *

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* David Abraham

Soundtrack

Plagiarism issue

The film was banned 10 days after its release because it was a plagiarized version of American film ''Knock on Wood'' (1954, starring

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, producers of Knock on the Wood filed a copyright lawsuit in India. They won the case and the judge of

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ordered all prints of Begunah to be

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. However, in 2020,

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found two 16mm reels consisting of around 60 to 70 minutes footage.

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* * 1957 films 1950s Hindi-language films 1950s Indian films 1957 romantic drama films Indian black-and-white films Indian romantic drama films Hindi-language romantic drama films 1950s lost films Lost Indian films Films involved in plagiarism controversies Indian remakes of American films {{1950s-Hindi-film-stub