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Sholay, one of the most memorable films of Bollywood, is going to complete 50 years on 15 August. Recently, filmmaker Farhan Akhtar has shared an unheard anecdote related to the film.
Talking on Prakhar Gupta’s YouTube channel, Farhan said,
The real strength of this film was his emotional story. The whole story was around Thakur, when his hands are cut off. We all get entangled in Jai-Viru’s words, but the real story was of an honest police officer who goes out of a robber to avenge the murder of his family. He keeps two useless people, and in the real end he kills Gabbar, but had to change the ending due to emergency. Now that original ending is found, in which he crushes Gabbar with his feet and then weeps.
The film ‘Sholay’ released on 15 August 1975 was directed by Ramesh Sippy.
Farhan also told that his father Javed Akhtar, who wrote Sholay with Salim Khan, was not happy with this change.
Farhan said,
When Papa and Salim Saheb had to change the ending, they started joking that now the villagers, police, all have come, just the postman has remained. He did not understand the arrival and ending of the police, but was compulsion.
The film ‘Sholay’ is the story of two criminals Veeru (Dharmendra) and Jai (Amitabh Bachchan), which a retired police officer (Sanjeev Kumar) keeps the dreaded bandit Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan).
In 2014, ‘Sholay’ was re -released in 3D.
In the film, Hema Malini plays Basanti and Jaya Bachchan played Radha, who are Veeru and Jai’s girlfriends. The music of the film is R.D. Burman gave it.
‘Sholay’ lasted for five consecutive years at Minerva Theater in Mumbai and broke the records across the country. It was a hit abroad, especially in the Soviet Union.
The film became the highest grossing film of the time and maintained records for years. In the 2002 list of the British Film Institute, it got the status of ‘Best Indian Film’ and was declared a ‘Best Film of 50 years’ at the 2005 Filmfare Awards.