After his family is murdered by a notorious and ruthless bandit, a former police officer enlists the services of two outlaws to capture the bandit.After his family is murdered by a notorious and ruthless bandit, a former police officer enlists the services of two outlaws to capture the bandit.After his family is murdered by a notorious and ruthless bandit, a former police officer enlists the services of two outlaws to capture the bandit.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 5 nominations
Jaya Bachchan
- Radha
- (as Jaya Bhaduri)
Satyendra Kapoor
- Ramlal
- (as Satyen Kappu)
Leela Mishra
- Mausie
- (as Leela Misra)
Sachin Pilgaonkar
- Ahmed
- (as Sachin)
Alankar Joshi
- Deepak
- (as Master Alankar)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
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- TriviaActor 'Amjad Khan' was almost dropped from the project because scriptwriter 'Javed Akhtar' found his voice too weak for Gabbar Singh's role.
- GoofsWhen Basanthi is being chased by bandits, while crossing the wooden bridge she does a small stunt, she moves the horse cart and breaks down the bridge and moves ahead, so the bandits are forced to take a detour to catch her. Veeru follows them and also find the bridge broken and take a detour. Both Basanti and Veeru are caught by the bandits and Jai rescues them later. While returning after being saved by Jai from Gabbar's den, Veeru, Basanti and Jai are seen crossing the same bridge which is fully intact.
- Quotes
Gabbar Singh: What's going to happen to you now, Kaalia?
- Alternate versionsThere has recently been a director's cut of Sholay shown on the asian u.k. satellite channel 'Zee TV', this has not been released up till now on cinemas. It contains the original ending director Ramesh Sippy intended that shows GabarSingh being killed at the hands of Thakur, instead of just being arrested by police. The film ran into problems with Indian Censors who claimed their rules about people taking the law into their own hands and not being punished for it was not permitted and may corrupt naive viewers; for this reason the ending of the film had to be re-shot for a 'U' Rating. Other unrated footage includes a more graphic footage of the fight between Gabar and Thakur in the film's ending, the subsequent pre-torture footage of a young village boy (showing Gabar's ruthlessness), Veeru dragging a bandit with a neck-noose galluping on horse- back, Ramlal fitting metal-spiked studs on Thakur's shoes, a village person on fire during a raid by Gabar.
- ConnectionsEdited into Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994)
- SoundtracksSholay Title Theme
Music by Rahul Dev Burman
Featured review
The Indian filmmaker G.P. Sippy died last December at the age of 93. his son Ramesh directed this film, which remains the most famous Hindi-language movie and the biggest commercial success for Bollywood. If you want to watch one Bollywood film in his honor, this is it.
This epic has everything. It has a magnificent Seven type story, but there are only two who come to save the village. They are thieves hired by a former policeman to capture the bandit leader.
It is a spaghetti-western of sorts as there are plenty of horses, and shooting, and fights.
It is a lavish musical with amazing color and costumes as the villagers really put on a show for their simple festival of colors.
It has comedy, slapstick, romance (but NO kissing!), music, a little horror, almost continuous action, tragedy, and triumph. Like, I said, if you only see one Sippy production, this should be it.
This epic has everything. It has a magnificent Seven type story, but there are only two who come to save the village. They are thieves hired by a former policeman to capture the bandit leader.
It is a spaghetti-western of sorts as there are plenty of horses, and shooting, and fights.
It is a lavish musical with amazing color and costumes as the villagers really put on a show for their simple festival of colors.
It has comedy, slapstick, romance (but NO kissing!), music, a little horror, almost continuous action, tragedy, and triumph. Like, I said, if you only see one Sippy production, this should be it.
- lastliberal
- Feb 8, 2008
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- Also known as
- Veter, plamen in bes
- Filming locations
- Bangalore, Karnataka, India(outskirts)
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- Runtime2 hours 42 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
- 1.37 : 1(original negative)
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