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Title: Sholay (1975)
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Sanjeev Kumar | ... | Thakur Baldev Singh | |
| Dharmendra | ... | Veeru | |
| Amitabh Bachchan | ... | Jai | |
| Amjad Khan | ... | Gabbar Singh | |
| Hema Malini | ... | Basanti | |
| Jaya Bhaduri | ... | Radha | |
| A.K. Hangal | ... | Imaam Saheb | |
| Satyendra Kapoor | ... | Ramlal (as Satyen Kappu) | |
| Iftekhar | ... | Narmalaji (Radha's father) | |
| Leela Mishra | ... | Mausie (as Leela Misra) | |
| Vikas Anand | ... | Jailer assigned to bring Veeru & Jaidev | |
| Mac Mohan | ... | Sambha | |
| Keshto Mukherjee | ... | Hariram | |
| Sachin | ... | Ahmed | |
| Alankar Joshi | ... | Deepak (as Master Alankar) | |
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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:
IndiaLanguage:
HindiRelease Date:
15 August 1975 (India) See more »Also Known As:
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| (director's cut) | (rough cut)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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Performed by Rahul Dev Burman
Lyrics by Anand Bakshi
Music by Rahul Dev Burman
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Trivia
Salim-Javed sold two ideas to the producers Sippy's, Majboor and a four-line idea which later on went to become Sholay. Sholay was sold at a lesser price (Rs. 1.5 lakh) than the other Majboor (Rs 2 lakh). Majboor later was sold to producer Premji. See more »Goofs
The movie supposedly takes place somewhere in north India. In the first song, "Ye Dosti...." a roadside banner is seen written in Kannada, which is followed only in Karnataka in south India. See more »Alternate Versions
The 'original' cut version of the movie ran for 188 minutes and had about 16 minutes of footage removed from the end. The uncut version runs for 204 minutes. See more »Soundtracks
Mehbooba MehboobaPerformed by Rahul Dev Burman
Lyrics by Anand Bakshi
Music by Rahul Dev Burman
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This movie is just the best movie i have seen. (I have watched around 570 movies) (Its my favorite movie).It has all the elements that a good movie must have:
Excellent Dialogues.
Excellent Music.
Excellent Acting. (Even the extra's where excellent)
Excellent Story/Plot.
Good Songs.
And it has much genres, who are handled very well in this movie: Action/Comedy/Romance/Drama/Adventure/Thriller (not really, but a kind of Thriller)/Musical/Crime. Each word of this movie is excellent. I think it has the greatest story ever! I was hurted when i came to know that Mr. Ram Gopal Varma is remaking this classic... Despite becoming the most successful film of its time, it failed to win any major popular or critics awards. The lone Filmfare award it got went to M.S. Shinde for Best editing. The plot is about a retired police officer Thakur (Sanjeev Kumar) who hires two convicts Veeru and Jai (Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan) to capture Gabbar Singh (a Dacoit) who had killed the cop's entire family (except the cop and his daughter-in-law).
Who has not seen this movie, try it once, you will love it. *****