Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini
Sholay means fire. In this particular movie, a Police Officer, who family was killed by a bandit named Gabbar Singh, decides to fight fire with fire and recruits two convicts, Jai and Veeru. He approa...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 13, 1999
Stats: 741 reviews
My first Bollywood film.
It's pretty badass, a little indulgent at 3+ hours, but that's par for the course with these films.
A curry western with heavy American influences has a little bit of everything. Suspense, Slapstick, Romance, Singing and Violent Bloodshed
India's firs...( read more)
A three hour Indian film with many attributes similar to Westerns, as well as Seven Samurai. Many different genres are covered here with he obigatory sing-songs which must be mandated in Bollywood. Two criminals are recruited by a former police officer to help him exact revenge o...( read more)
The Casablanca of Indian Cinema: no other film has embedded itself so deeply into our nation's collective conscious as this one.
Sholay is a famous "curry" western, India's answer to the spaghetti westerns of Italy. A rousing combination of action, romance, drama, comedy, music, and revenge, Sholay is a western that is epic in the best sense, and it deserves to stand alongside other classics in the genre.
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this is the best of the best hindi movie in bollywood, movie has not been made yet in the history of hindi movie till now. golden dialogue which are used till today and each person acting is superb. movie of 80s
Timeless Classic, Best Bollywood ever with all Golden dialogues, unmatched acting by legends...
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