Many producers who had to finish movies simply moved their production to Bangalore.ġ8. Juggling various actors’ schedules was also getting difficult. Initially planned for six months, the shooting stretched to well over a year. People thought the film needed to be shot in a landscape like Rajasthan.ġ7. While shooting in Bangalore, amidst greenery and rocks, there was some resentment over the sets. Initially a retired soldier, his character was later changed to that of a policeman.ġ6.
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Thakur Baldev Singh is actually the name of Salim Khan’s father-in-law. This was how Gabbar Singh’s name came to be.ġ5. Salim Khan’s father, a cop, had told him stories of a notorious dacoit named Gabbar, who kept dogs, and chopped the noses of cops. Gabbar Singh is featured in only nine scenes of the film.ġ4. Sholay‘s centerpiece – the massacre sequence in which Gabbar obliterates the Thakur’s family – was shot in twenty-three days over three schedules.ġ3. Because Ramesh and Divecha decided that these tender scenes required the golden hue of the magic hour, the few minutes between sunset and night.ġ2. The one-minute scene of Radha (Jaya Bachchan) extinguishing the lamps while Jai (Amitabh Bachchan) played the harmonica during sunset took 20 days to shoot by cinematographer Dwarka Divecha. However, he was busy shooting Dharmatma in Afghanistan and could not accept the role.ġ1. Danny Denzongpa was initially offered the role of Gabbar Singh. Salim Khan noted that later, Kumar felt bad about rejecting the role.ġ0. Dilip Kumar was initially offered the role of Thakur Baldev Singh, which eventually was played by Sanjeev Kumar.
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Initially met with some opposition, he held a trial of Zanjeer which alleviated all doubts. It was Salim Khan who recommended Amitabh Bachchan for Jai’s character. Shatrughan Sinha was originally considered for Jai’s role.Ĩ. The Dharmendra-Hema romance had just begun, and Sanjeev had already proposed to Hema once.ħ. Director Ramesh Sippy cleverly convinced Dharmendra to play Veeru by explaining that if the roles were swapped, Sanjeev Kumar would get Hema Malini at the end.
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He knew Thakur and Gabbar were central to the story. Dharmendra wanted to play Thakur’s role after hearing the final script. He eventually played the role of Thakur.Ħ. It is said that Sanjeev Kumar wanted to play ‘Gabbar’ so badly that he offered to blacken his teeth, and shave off his hair, to convince director Ramesh Sippy that he could play the part. Writers of the film Salim Khan-Javed Akhtar got 10,000 Rupees as a signing amount, which was a huge amount in the 1970s.ĥ. But the premier, at Minerva theater, was done with the 35 mm print because the 70 mm prints were still in customs!Ĥ.
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Sholay was India’s first 70 mm, stereophonic sound film. In Mumbai’s Minerva theatre, Sholay ran uninterrupted for five years, from 1975 to 1980.ģ. In 1999, BBC-India and assorted polls christened Sholay “Film Of The Millennium.”Ģ.