Dueling Banjos was made famous by the 1972 film "Deliverance," which also led to a successful lawsuit by the song's composer, as it was used in the film without Smith's permission. The film version was arranged and recorded by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell, but only credited to Weissberg on a single subsequently issued in December 1972. It went to #2 for four weeks on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in 1973, all four weeks behind Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly with His Song," and topped the adult contemporary chart for two weeks the same year. It reached #1 for one week on
Maalik (1972 film) this spiritual film was not screened by in many theatres by distributors, due to which producers suffered losses. "Badnam Farishte" in 1971 was the first film of Khanna to flop at the box office since his consecutive 17 hits from 1969. Before the release of "Maalik", Khanna had 9 more hits in the year 1972. In 1972, Khanna acted in 10 releases of which 9 became successful. He did a guest appearance in a Telugu movie called "Bangaru Babu", directed by V.B. Rajendra Prasad in 1973. His Hindi films "Dushman", "Amar Prem", "Apna Desh" and "Mere Jeevan Saathi", together earned