Sholay

Select your cookie preferences We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your experiences on Amazon video services, and to provide our services, as detailed in our If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your viewing experience across Amazon video services as described in our Accept Cookies | Customize Cookies One of the most iconic Bollywood Films ever made - Sholay tells the tale of a retired policeman (Thakur) who summons a pair of small-time thieves to help him capture Gabbar Singh, a notorious & wanted dacoit. While planning to capture Gabbar, the thieves unravel the motivation for Thakur's actions. Sholay is also a defining example of a 'masala' film, which mixes several genres in one epic film.

6. Dharmendra wanted to play Thakur's role after hearing the final script. He knew Thakur and Gabbar were central to the story. Director Ramesh Sippy cleverly convinced Dharmendra to play Veeru by explaining that if the roles were swapped, Sanjeev Kumar would get Hema Malini at the end. The Dharmendra-Hema romance had just begun, and Sanjeev had already proposed to Hema once. 11. The one-minute scene of Radha (Jaya Bachchan) extinguishing the lamps while Jai (Amitabh Bachchan) played the harmonica during sunset took 20 days to shoot by cinematographer Dwarka Divecha. Because Ramesh and Divecha decided that these tender scenes required the golden hue of the magic hour, the few minutes between sunset and night. 26. The tanki scene, where a smashed Viru climbs on top of a water tank and threatens to die by suicide, had been discussed but wasn't written yet. Javed Akhtar wrote it in the car on the way to Bangalore airport. He made his assistant check-in for him, while he trashed the scene out on paper, on the hood of his car. 28. The scene of Gabbar massacring Thakur's family is adapted from Once Upon A Time In The West. Salim-Javed kept the Hollywood Western as the primary inspiration but also used Hindi cinema references to add colour to the characters. For example, Raj Khosla's 1971 film Mera Gaon Mera Desh , had a one-armed man, that would become the inspiration for Thakur. The Bimal Roy's Madhumati has a scene in which a boastful servant is caught by his master, much like...

Sholay means "embers" in Hindi. In this film, a police officer whose family was filled by a bandit named Gabbar Singh decides to fight fire with fire and requires two convicts, Jai and Veeru, to capture Gabbar. He approaches them in jail and puts the proposal in front of them, and they agree to bring in Gabbar Singh alive--for a hefty price. After their discharge from jail, they travel by train to the village where the police officer lives with his widowed daughter-in-law. The three band together to fight one of the most elusive and dreaded bandits of all time. Will the two ex-cons be able to bring Gabbar alive to the police officer? — • Retired police officer Thakur Baldev Singh gets two convicts, Jaidev and Veeru, to capture Gabbar Singh, a bandit chief who has been terrorizing the small village of Ramgarh. Gabbar massacred Thakur's entire family and even had his arms cut off. Unable to take revenge himself, Thakur Baldev Singh recruits Veeru and Jaidev, both small time crooks. Both agree to capture Gabbar Singh alive and hand him over to Baldev Singh. Things do not go as planned: Veeru falls for the local horse-carriage driver Basanti, and Jai starts to have romantic feelings for Baldev Singh's widowed daughter-in-law Radha. To make matters worse, Gabbar has sworn to kill both Jai and Veeru, and he holds Basanti hostage to lure them to him. But Jaidev and Veeru are so clever that no bandit can outwit the two. — • In order to avenge the brutal killings of his family ...

• العربية • Azərbaycanca • বাংলা • Deutsch • Español • فارسی • Français • ગુજરાતી • 한국어 • Հայերեն • हिन्दी • Bahasa Indonesia • Italiano • मैथिली • മലയാളം • मराठी • مصرى • Bahasa Melayu • Nederlands • नेपाली • नेपाल भाषा • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ • پنجابی • Polski • Русский • سرائیکی • Simple English • Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски • Suomi • Svenska • Tagalog • தமிழ் • తెలుగు • ไทย • Українська • اردو • Vepsän kel’ Running time 204 minutes Country India Language Hindi Budget Box office est. ₹350 million (India) 250 million tickets (worldwide) Sholay ( Hindustani: ( transl. Embers) is a 1975 Indian Hindi-language The film was shot in the rocky terrain of Sholay was released with a length of 198minutes. In 1990, the original director's cut of 204minutes became available on home media. When first released, Sholay received negative critical reviews and a tepid commercial response, but favourable word-of-mouth publicity helped it to become a box office success. It broke records for continuous showings in many theatres across India, and ran for more than five years at Mumbai's Minerva theatre. The film was also an Sholay remains one of the highest-grossing Indian films of all time, adjusted for inflation. Sholay is often regarded as Sholay is also a defining example of the Sholay was re-released to theatres in the 3D format. Plot Jai and Veeru are small-time crooks who are released from prison, where they are recruited by a former ₹50,000, ₹20,000 reward. The duo leave for Thakur's village in ...