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Sholay is arguably one of the best known Hindi films ever made. It was launched 41 years ago, This is a film that is memorable for so many reasons – the characters, the dialogues, the scenes, the story – there are so many reasons why millions of Indians will pick Sholay as one of their favorite Hindi movies of all time.
 Lines such as kitne aadmi they, soja varna Gabbar aajayega, itna sannata kyon hai bhai, yeh haat mujhe de de Thakur,  they are so popular that they have become a part of everyday language.


There has been so much said and written about Sholay, . We look at some more interesting facts about Sholay – some which you may know, some you may not:


Two producer/director teams rejected the idea before it found favor with Ramesh Sippy.
Though released on August 15 1975, Sholay was launched on 2nd October 1973.
It took two and a half years to make the movie and ran way over-budget.
It was only after Sholay that scriptwriters came to be respected and well paid in Bollywood.
The song “Yeh Dosti” took 21 days to shoot; the scene where Jaya’s character Radha lights a lamp took 20 days to shoot.

There was actually a dacoit named Gabbar Singh in the 1950’s in the Gwalior area; he used to cut off the noses and ears of policemen.



During the shooting of the film, Dharmendra would pay the light boys to spoil his scenes with Hema Malini so retakes would be required.
Amitabh Bachchan married Jaya Bhaduri 4 months before shooting for Sholay started.

There were shooting delays because Jaya was pregnant with Shweta during the shooting of the film.
Dharmendra and Hema Malini got married 5 years after the release of the film.
The town called Ramanagara, about 50 kms from Bangalore is still referred to as Ramgarh because Sholay was shot there.
The rocks around the area are still referred to as Sholay-rocks and are now a tourist attraction.
Sholay was film of many firsts: the first Hindi film made in 70 mm and the first to be made with stereophonic sound.
The original ending of Sholay showed Gabbar being killed by Thakur.
The Censor Board required the ending of Sholay to be re-shot and several scenes to be redone because they were thought of as extremely violent.
People saw only the edited version for the first 15 years after release, though in 1990 the original uncut version became available.


More spoofs, parodies and stand up comics have drawn from Sholay than perhaps any other Indian film.
In her book, Sholay: The Making of a Classic, film critic and TV personality Anupama Chopra called the film the gold standard in Hindi cinema.
In the same book Shekhar Kapur is quoted as saying “There has never been a more defining film on the Indian screen. Indian film history can be divided into Sholay BC and Sholay AD.“
In 1999,
However it won only one Filmfare award – for best editing.
Lines from the film became such cult classics that they can still be found scrawled on the rear of trucks, autos and other representations of popular culture.

The 3-D Sholay trailer was launched on 7 November 2013 and Sholay 3-D will hit theaters on 3 January 2014.