Sholay
| Sholay | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ramesh Sippy |
| Written by | Salim–Javed |
| Produced by | G. P. Sippy |
| Starring | Dharmendra Sanjeev Kumar Hema Malini Amitabh Bachchan Jaya Bhaduri Amjad Khan |
| Cinematography | Dwarka Divecha |
| Edited by | M. S. Shinde |
| Music by | R. D. Burman |
Production companies | 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 | ₹30 million[5] |
| Box office | est. ₹350 million (India)[6] 60 million tickets (USSR)[7] |
Sholay is a Bollywood comedy 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.
Cast
[change | change source]- 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
Notes
[change | change source]- ↑ 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
[change | change source]- ↑ "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, p. 33.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ ""Месть и закон" (Sholay, 1975)". KinoPoisk (in Russian). 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. Archived from the original on 6 April 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
- ↑ "Sharman Joshi father Arvind Joshi workedin Amitabh Bachchan-Dharmendra Sholay". TimesNowHindi.com. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
- ↑ "Biography: Sharad Kumar". Amazon.com. 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.
