Sholay (Embers) (Flames) (Flames of the Sun) (1975)
Release Date: Dec 31, 1975 Wide
Release Date: Dec 31, 1975 Wide
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This 1975 film provides a superb look at popular Hindi cinema. Although it can be called an adventure, it has a spaghetti-western storyline, martial-arts sequences, comedy, soap-opera melodrama, and even musical numbers, including an early scene that has the two main characters riding a motorcycle and singing like Elvis Presley in the carnival flick, Roustabout. The film itself is indeed a carnival, and many of the features produced by India's popular movie industry exhibit a similar mixture of
Dec 31, 1975 Wide
Jul 13, 1999
Adlabs Film
Cast
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Sanjeev Kumar
Thakur -
Dharmendra
Veeru -
Amitabh Bachchan
Jaidev -
Hema Malini
Basanti -
Amjad Khan
Gabbar Singh -
Jaya Bhaduri
Radha -
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Audience Reviews for Sholay (Embers) (Flames) (Flames of the Sun)
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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 first 70mm film.
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Movie: ID: 385330565 Title: Sholay (Embers) (Flames) (Flames of the Sun) Release Date: 1975-12-31 00:00:00.0 MPAA: 2 Status: 1
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Foreign Titles
- Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag (DE)
- Sholay 2 (UK)
Jab bache rote hain to maa kehti he soja warna Gabbar Singh ajayega.
saab mene aap ka namak khaya he
Ab Gholi Kha
TRIVIA::
This film was directly inspired by the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, by Akira Kurosawa's Shichinin no samurai, Bandidos (1967) among others. Some critics at the time even began calling it a curry western.
Amitabh Bachchan was almost killed at the end of the movie when a stray bullet from 'Dharmendra' missed him by inches.