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Title: Sholay (1975)
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Jailer assigned to bring Veeru & Jaidev
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Hariram
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Sholay means embers in Hindi. In this particular movie, a Police Officer, who's family was killed by a bandit named Gabbar Singh, decides to fight fire with fire and recruits two convicts, Jai and Veeru to capture Gabbar. He approaches them in jail, 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 - now with only 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? Written by Calista
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Country:
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HindiRelease Date:
15 August 1975 (India) See more »Also Known As:
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Performed by Kishore Kumar & Manna Dey
Lyrics by Anand Bakshi
Music by Rahul Dev Burman
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The famous overhead tank scene where Veeru threatens Mausi with suicide and Jai attempts at making a proposal of marriage was drawn from a real-life incident. See more »Goofs
Upon seeing his family members killed, as he hurries towards the horse, the horse in which he mounts on is black in color and has a white patch at its hoof, whereas the horse which his stunt man rides in the next scene is brown in color, and has no white patch at its hoof. See more »Soundtracks
Yeh DostiPerformed by Kishore Kumar & Manna Dey
Lyrics by Anand Bakshi
Music by Rahul Dev Burman
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I am shocked seeing that the IMDb ratings for this classic is just 6.6. Why? Because the movie is strongly influenced from the Westerns? or It it isn't entertaining enough?
The 2nd cant be true because the movie had everything: strong script strong direction excellent characters and performances good action,comedy,romance,friendship,etc
If the 1st is true then i feel sorry for the viewers because being influenced is not being copied.Besides there would remain only like 50-60 original scripts if counted correctly.
I cannot find a single flaw in the movie which is my personal thinking and as it would be of true Hindi cinema fans.
So people please judge the movie on its merits and not on something which is totally baseless.
RATING:- *****/*****