Sholay!! It was a movie that beat all other movies of that week, Nay! Of that year ..Who am I kidding? Of that decade and many decades to come.Sholay was the established benchmark of many a action movies- The movie continues to be remembered even to this day!
What was so special about Sholay? Was it direction? Acting?Songs or action!. To me, it was all of this plus the fact that the cast fit the characters perfectly, be it the jailer Asrani, the Dadi of Basanti BUT more than this, indeed towering above all was the penmanship of Salim-Javed! Their one liners have been enshrined in the hall of eternal flame. Who can forget the growly menacing, "Kitne Aadmi they?" or the droll, sarcastic,"Tumhare Naam kya hai (Pause) Basanti? or the howlarious, "Shooosyde,(suicide)"act of dharmendra!...
Sholay lives not just for the impeccable and unsurpassed scriptwriting of S-J but also for the phenomenal acting of Amjad Khan! The girth, roughened and rugged voice, the meany glint in that tiny eyes and the slow drawl. Shivers ran down your spine when he happens to observe a young, innocent bewildered boy of Sanjiv Kumar's . The inscrutable, impassive look followed by ruthless butchering of that boy stays on in your mind for along time.
If Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Jaya Bhaduri formed the golden core, these cast members formed the radiant stars who formed the galaxy and illuminated it with their brilliant acting.
This is one of the rare pictures from that golden era posted by AB himself. Come lets take a dip in the immortal sholays once again. May the embers of memories light up .
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