Pran refused to accept the best supporting actor award on the ground that the Filmfare award for Best Music should have gone to Paakeezah (1972) and not 'Shankar Jaikishan' for Be-Imaan (1972).
Be-Imaan was remade after 14 years as Ilzaam in 1986 by Pehlaaj Nihalani with Shibu Mittra as director with Shashi Kapoor, Shatrugan Sinha, Raj Kiran, Anita Raaj, Neelam and Govinda, which was his first release.
Manoj Kumar stated that despite the film being a hit, his core fans did not like the film..Everytime he would frequent on the railways, his friends and fans told him not do such films.
Rakhee Gulzar later stated " When I was told I was getting the award for best actress in an awful and silly film called Beimaan, I said I wouldn't accept it, not when just a few years earlier they refused to give me the award for what I thought was a commendable performance in Sharmilee. They chose to give Asha Parekh the best actress award that year for Kati Patang. Shockingly they didn't even give Sachin Dev Burman, the best music award for his soulful music in Sharmilee. In fact Sachin and his son Rahul Dev Burman hardly ever got awards." In the year that Sohanlal Kanwar's mediocre and long-forgotten Beimaan had walked away with all the awards, Kamal Amrohi's Pakeezah was left deeply wounded. It lost all the awards. Unable to bear the snub to music composer Ghulam Mohamed for his immortal compositions in Pakeezah, the veteran-actor Pran who had won the Best Supporting Actor award for Beimaan, declined to take his award.
The film had a super hit song "Jai Bole Beimann Ki". Years later Mithun signed a film with a title by the same name. It was later changed to Sabse Bada Be imaan.