Sholay

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.

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	15 August 1975 (1975-08-15)
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]

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

Notes

1. 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]