Begunaah
| Begunaah बेगुनाह |
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| Directed by | Anil Suri |
| Produced by | Anil Suri |
| Written by | Abrar Alvi |
| Story by | Sushma Suri |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Rajesh Roshan |
| Cinematography | D.K. Prabhakar |
| Edited by | M.S. Shinde |
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Release date
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1991 |
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Running time
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150 minutes |
| Country | Inida |
| Language | Hindi |
Begunaah is a 1991 Indian crime drama film directed and produced by Anil Suri. The film follows the life of Jeevanlal J.V (Rajesh Khanna), a man who experiences a personal crisis one after the other after his wife's death. He was jailed, then had an increase in the jail sentence due to his attempts to escape, and was separated from his only daughter. He subsequently searched for his grown up daughter only to find that she is widower, mother to a boy, and also a prostitute. It was the feature debut of director Anil Suri who had been a producer of many films in the past. It was a success when released in 1991.
Widower Jeevanlal lives with his 5-year-old daughter in small house. One day he meets with an accident and is unable to return home as he is admitted in hospital. Meanwhile, due to heavy rains, an ill Guddu starts searching for her dad at the night time and gets giddy due to hunger and falls on the road. Jeevanlal returns home and sees she has fever. Then Jeevanlal gets arrested for assaulting a Pharmacist as he is unable to afford medicines suggested by doctor to treat his ill daughter, Guddu. Subsequently Jeevanlal gets jailed, his repeated and vain attempts to escape from prison to meet his daughter only end up increasing his sentence, leaving Guddu to fend on her own. 8 years pass by. Guddu went to a school as while she was searching for her dad, a Marathi woman saw her and started to allow Guddu grow up in her house.
Meanwhile, during transfer from one jail to another, some prisoners die due to an accident, where Qaidi No. 8 Jeevanlal is presumed to be dead. Meanwhile, Jeevanlal manages to escape successfully from that accident but due to his hunger for food he goes into a bunglow and when he is about to pick food, the owner of the bunglow comes to the room but Jeevanlal shows knife at him but the owner of the bunglow just by glancing at Jeevanlal, says this man is not a thief for sure and introduces himself as Judge Dindayal. Jeevalal says do not send me to prison back as I have escaped only to meet my daughter and says he will kill Dindayal if he raises an alarm.
Owner Dindayal asks his servant Bhola to give Jeevanlal food properly and says "Let him eat and sleep in our house in the same room where my deceased son used to sleep". The same night again Jeevanlal tries to run and steals a golden idol from the house. Bhola informs his owner that the guy who came last night has stolen the golden idol of God and ran away from the room. But the police of that city catch him while trying to sell that idol to a merchant and police inform the owner that the thief confessed that idol was stolen from his house only. Then the owner of Bunglow and the idol - Judge Dindayal - says this person is my friends's son named J.V. and has not stolen the idol but in fact the owner of idol. Dindayal, though aware that escaped convict is at his home, decides to let Jeevanlal not get caught in hands of police.
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