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| name = Betaal Pachisi<br />
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| genre = [[Fantasy]]<br />
| creator = <br />
| based_on = {{based on|''[[The Phantom]]''|[[Lee Falk]]}}<br />
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| opentheme = "Ye To Hai Betaal"<br />
| writer = <br />
| director = [[Sunil Agnihotri]]<br />
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| company = [[DD National]]<br />
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| country = India<br />
| language = Hindi<br />
| num_episodes = 49<br />
| runtime = 45 minutes <br />
| network = [[DD National]]<br />
| first_aired = {{start date|df=y|1997|5|26}}<br />
| last_aired = {{end date|1998}}<br />
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'''''Betaal Pachisi''''' is an Indian television series based on the [[comic strip]] ''[[The Phantom]]''. The 49-episode Hindi series originally ran from 1997 to 1998 on [[DD National]]. It was directed by [[Sunil Agnihotri]] and starred [[Shahbaz Khan (actor)|Shahbaz Khan]], [[Sonu Walia]], [[Puneet Issar]], [[Tom Alter]] and [[Vindu Dara Singh]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/star-of-chandrakanta-and-betaal-pachisi-shahbaz-khan-to-cut-his-first-album/1/274879.html |title=Star of Chandrakanta and Betaal Pachisi, Shahbaz Khan to cut his first album |magazine=[[India Today]] |date=29 September 1997 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/081097/SHO01.htm |title=Fanning out fantasy |newspaper=[[The Hindustan Times]] |date=8 October 1997 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19990128163955/http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/081097/SHO01.htm |archivedate=January 28, 1999 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/trps-of-krishna-on-dd-falls-as-betaal-pachisi-draws-lot-of-viewers/1/274573.html |title=TRPs of Krishna on DD falls as Betaal Pachisi draws lot of viewers |magazine=[[India Today]] |date=28 July 1997 }}</ref><br />
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==Cast==<br />
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*[[Shahbaz Khan (actor)|Shahbaz Khan]] as Betaal<br />
*[[A. K. Hangal]] as Baba<br />
*[[Tom Alter]] as CID Officer Harry<br />
*[[Sonu Walia]] as TV reporter<br />
*[[Vindu Dara Singh]] as Zulmato<br />
*[[Puneet Issar]] as Kabira (Main antagonist) aka Danav Samrat<br />
*[[Krutika Desai Khan]] as Naina Jogan<br />
*[[Nimai Bali]] as Teja<br />
*[[Shiva Rindani]] as Hiboo/Evu Jingora<br />
*[[Mac Mohan]] as Mackie<br />
*[[Shehzad Khan]] as Shahdie<br />
*[[Sudhir (Hindi actor)|Sudhir]] as Bash<br />
*[[Mamik Singh]]<br />
*[[Sagar Salunke]]<br />
*[[Arjun (Firoz Khan)|Arjun]] as Marko the Magician<br />
*[[Rajendra Gupta]] as Felix the Don / Professor<br />
*[[Deep Dhillon]] as Jakaali<br />
*[[Javed Khan (actor)|Javed Khan]] as Forest Officer<br />
*[[Akhilendra Mishra]] as Yakoo<br />
*[[Reena Wadhwa]] as Maharani Kakooti<br />
*[[Tinnu Anand]] as Alex the Don<br />
*Polly as ET<br />
*[[Surendra Pal]] as Zulmato's sidekick<br />
*[[Archana Joglekar]] as Nagin<br />
*[[Daman Maan]] as Jadugar Garsha<br />
*[[Usha Bachani]] as Rajkumari Ballari<br />
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==Controversy==<br />
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The show faced a lawsuit when [[King Features Syndicate]] filed a case arguing that [[Sunil Agnihotri]] had copied the idea of ''[[The Phantom]]'' comic strips for the Betaal series.<ref name="Narayanan2007">{{cite book|last=Narayanan|first=Parameswaran|title=Law of copyright and industrial designs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1hc9AQAAIAAJ|accessdate=23 April 2012|year=2007<br />
|publisher=Eastern Law House|isbn=978-81-7177-190-5|pages=17, 46}}</ref><ref name="Business world">{{cite journal|title=Business World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qZaAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=23 April 2012|date=January 1997|publisher=Ananda Bazar Patrika Ltd.|page=46}}</ref> However, the court ruled that only the unique expression of an idea could be protected, not the idea itself.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sarai.net/research/knowledge-culture/critical-public-legal-resources/sustainingmyths.pdf |author1=Mayur Suresh |author2=Atreyee Majumder |author3=Lawrence Liang |work=Infochangeindia.org |title=Encountering the Sustaining Myths of Copyright |accessdate=2012-04-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070716222922/http://www.sarai.net/research/knowledge-culture/critical-public-legal-resources/sustainingmyths.pdf |archivedate=2007-07-16 }}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0390685}}<br />
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[[Category:Indian fantasy television series]]<br />
[[Category:DD National original programming]]<br />
[[Category:1997 Indian television series debuts]]<br />
[[Category:1998 Indian television series endings]]<br />
[[Category:Television shows based on comic strips]]<br />
[[Category:The Phantom television series]]<br />
[[Category:Indian action television series]]<br />
[[Category:Indian superhero television shows]]</div>>KungfuPanda2008