Sholay
Sholay is a Bollywood movie directed by Ramesh Sippy. It was produced by his father, GP Sippy. The movie was released on 15 August 1975. The action-adventure movie is about two criminals, Veeru and Jai (played by Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan), who were hired by a retired police officer (Sanjeev Kumar) to catch the cruel dacoit Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan). Sholay is a classic Indian movie. [8] It was top of the British Film Institute's 2002 poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time. In 2005, 50th Filmfare Awards named it the Best Film of 50 Years.
| Sholay | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ramesh Sippy |
| Produced by | G. P. Sippy |
| Written by | Salim–Javed |
| Starring | Dharmendra Sanjeev Kumar Hema Malini Amitabh Bachchan Jaya Bhaduri Amjad Khan |
| Music by | R. D. Burman |
| Cinematography | Dwarka Divecha |
| Edited by | M. S. Shinde |
Production company | United Producers Sippy Films |
| Distributed by | Sippy Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 204 minutes[1][a] |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi[2][3][4] |
| Budget |  [5] |
| Box office | est. (India)[6] 60 million tickets (USSR)[7] |
Cast
- Dharmendra as Veeru
- Sanjeev Kumar as Thakur Baldev Singh
- Hema Malini as Basanti
- Amitabh Bachchan as Jai (Jaidev)
- Jaya Bhaduri as Radha, Thakur's daughter-in-law
- Amjad Khan as Gabbar Singh
- Satyen Kappu as Ramlaal, Thakur's servant
- A. K. Hangal as Rahim Chacha, the imam in the village
- Sachin as Ahmed, son of the imam
- Jagdeep as Soorma Bhopali, a comical wood trader
- Leela Mishra as Mausi, Basanti's maternal aunt
- Asrani as the Jailor, a comical character modelled after Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator[9]
- Keshto Mukherjee as Hariram, prison barber and Jailor's side-kick
- Mac Mohan as Sambha, Gabbar Singh's sidekick
- Viju Khote as Kaalia, another of Gabbar's men whom he kills in a game of Russian roulette
- Iftekhar as Inspector Khurana, Radha's Father
- Helen in a special appearance in song "Mehbooba Mehbooba"
- Jalal Agha in a special appearance in song "Mehbooba Mehbooba"
- Raj Kishore as a jail inmate with gayish mannerisms[10]
- Arvind Joshi as elder son of Thakur Baldev Singh[11]
- Sharad Kumar as Ninni, younger son of Thakur Baldev Singh[12]
- Gita Siddharth as Geeta, Arvind Joshi's wife
Sholay Media
Ramdevarabetta, near the town of Ramanagara; much of Sholay was shot in rocky locations such as this.
A line of Gabbar Singh (Tera kya hoga, meaning, "What will happen to you?") and a picture of him is painted on the back of an auto rickshaw, a common mode of public transport. Dialogues and characters from the film have contributed to many cultural tropes in India's daily life.
Notes
- ↑ The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) notes three running times of Sholay. The version that was submitted in film format to BBFC had a running time of 198 minutes. A video version of this had a running time of 188 minutes. BBFC notes that "When a film is transferred to video the running time will be shorter by approximately 4% due to the differing number of frames per second. This does not mean that the video version has been cut or re-edited." The director's cut was 204 minutes long.[13]
References
- ↑ "Sholay (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on 9 November 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
- ↑ Cinar, Alev; Roy, Srirupa; Yahya, Maha (2012). Visualizing Secularism and Religion: Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India. University of Michigan Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-472-07118-0.
- ↑ Chopra 2000.
- ↑ Aḵẖtar, Jāvīd; Kabir, Nasreen Munni (2002). Talking Films: Conversations on Hindi Cinema with Javed Akhtar. Oxford University Press. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-19-566462-1.
JA: I write dialogue in Urdu, but the action and descriptions are in English. Then an assistant transcribes the Urdu dialogue into Devnagari because most people read Hindi. But I write in Urdu.
- ↑ Chopra 2000, p. 143.
- ↑ "Sholay emerges as Bollywood's most successful re-run product even after 20 years". India Today. 15 September 1995. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/sholay-emerges-as-bollywoods-most-successful-re-run-product-even-after-20-years/1/289356.html.
- ↑ ""Месть и закон" (Sholay, 1975)". KinoPoisk (in русский). Retrieved 3 February 2019.
- ↑ "Sholay turns 45: Shweta Bachchan shares throwback pic from set, says 'India's tryst with its movies has been long and beautiful'". Hindustan Times. 2020-08-16. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
- ↑ Banerjee & Srivastava 1988, pp. 166–169.
- ↑ Sarkar, Suparno (6 April 2018). "Sholay actor Raj Kishore latest among Bollywood celebs who died in 2018". International Business Times (India). https://www.ibtimes.co.in/sholay-actor-raj-kishore-passes-away-85-766026. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
- ↑ Sharman Joshi father Arvind Joshi workedin Amitabh Bachchan-Dharmendra Sholay. TimesNowHindi.com. https://www.timesnowhindi.com/entertainment/bollywood/article/sharman-joshi-father-arvind-joshi-worked-in-amitabh-bachchan-dharmendra-sholay/290925. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
- ↑ Biography: Sharad Kumar. Amazon.com. https://www.amazon.com/prime-video/actor/Sharad-Kumar/nm0474886/. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
- ↑ "Sholay". British Board of Film Classification. 25 September 2012. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
