1. SHOLAY
• Sholay is a 1975 Indian action-adventure
film produced by G.P. Sippy and directed
by his son Ramesh Sippy. It is considered
by the Encyclopaedia of Hindi cinema to
be among the greatest films in Indian
cinema.
• Release date: August 15, 1975 (initial
release)
• Director: Ramesh Sippy
• Music: Rahul Dev Burman
• Awards: Filmfare Best Film of 50 Years
• Screenplay: Javed Akhtar, Salim Khan
• Cast
2. • stars Dharmendra, Amitabh
Bachchan, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Jaya
Bhaduri and Amjad Khan.
3. SHOLAY
• Directed byRamesh Sippy
• Produced byG.P. SippyScreenplay bySalim-
JavedStarringDharmendra
Sanjeev Kumar
Amitabh Bachan
Hema Malini
Jaya Bhaduri
Amjad KhanMusic byR. D.
BurmanCinematographyDwarka DivechaEditing
byM.S. ShindeStudioUnited Producers
Sippy FilmsDistributed bySippy
FilmsRelease date(s)15 August 1975
• Running time204
minutesCountryIndiaLanguageHindiBudget2 crore (U
S$362,000)Box office15 crore (US$2.72 million)
4. • Release Date15 August 1975
• AwardsBest Film
Best Director – Ramesh Sippy
Best Actor – Sanjeev Kumar
Best Actor in Supporting Role –
Amjad Khan
Best Actor in Comic Role –
Asrani
Best story – Salim-Javed
Best Music – Rahul Dev Burman
Best Lyrics – Anand Bakshi for
song "Mehbooba Mehbooba"
Best Male Playback Singer –
Rahul Dev Burman for song
"Mehbooba Mehboobd
5.
6. शोले
• If you only see one Bollywood film ... make
it Sholay.
• Sholay ("Flames") is a film that deserves a full
review. This 1975 film that is a true classic of
Hindi cinema. I’ve been told that, at least for a
while, it held the title of longest continuously
running film in India. It features a sparkling
and immensely popular soundtrack by R.D.
Burman, a favorite composer of mine, who
was an absolute genius at fusing funky
Western pop sounds with traditional Indian
rhythm and melody. (He was also Asha
Bhosle’s husband.) And it also features a
terrific cast, headed up by Amitabh Bachchan,
Hindi film’s biggest hero of the 70s, in his
seminal “Angry Young Man” role.
7. • Sholay is sometimes called the first “curry
western,” a parallel to the term “spaghetti
western,” as it ushered in a spate of
cowboy-type films. Sholay includes
countless references to contemporary
American westerns like Once Upon a Time
in America and The Good, the Bad, and
the Ugly. But independent from these
homages (some would say rip-
offs), Sholay stands on its own as a truly
wonderful piece of film-making – one of
the four or five best Hindi films I have
ever seen.
12. Result of sholay
• The result is a film with a leisurely pace,
appropriate to the sweeping backdrop in which
the hot sun bakes the desert dry. Rounding out
the film’s generous 200 minutes are five of the
most delightful film songs I have ever
seen. From the raucous buddy number, “Yeh
dosti,” in which Amitabh and Dharmendra hold
hands on a motorcycle, to the famous “Jab tak
hai jaan,” in which the spunky and defiant
Basanti dances barefoot on broken glass in
hopes of preserving Veeru’s life, the songs do
not let up for a moment. There is evena slinky
nighttime number by the legendary Bollywood
dancer known as Helen, who during her
illustrious career performed sensuous,
outrageously-costumed numbers in hundreds of