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Sholay film returns to screen after 50 years
NEW DELHI [Maha Media]: Today marks the 50th anniversary of 'Sholay,' India's iconic film, with its re-release on 1,500 screens. On this special occasion, the film's producer-director Ramesh Sippy shared many unheard stories and aspects related to the film in an exclusive conversation with Dainik Bhaskar.
He revealed how the trade called it a 'disaster', why the Censor Board made changes to the film's climax, and how Amitabh Bachchan maintained extraordinary confidence on set even during his most difficult phase.
This cinematic event celebrates a milestone with unheard insights from the film's creator. Let's see what he revealed about the film-
It is a matter of great joy that this film is being released once again after 50 years. Now it remains to be seen how much desire and excitement the audience has for it. There are also a few changes.
The version releasing now will actually be the film I made. There isn't as big a difference as people are imagining. The film that people liked, that will certainly be right.
Back then, actually, the way we wanted it from beginning to end, we had to compromise a bit due to censorship. And now we want to see how the audience reacts to the original ending.
No, no, no! That's also incorrect. What happened earlier was, there used to be 16-17 cinemas in Mumbai city, but we released it in 33 theatres. Since people also work on weekdays, there wouldn't be as much crowd, but the houses were full.
When the film was released and trade papers, misrepresenting it, said for five weeks that it was a disaster... Oh God! So naturally, there would be mixed opinions in the industry, wouldn't there? People were saying it was good, some were saying it was a disaster, what exactly was it?
We understood it when the audience started coming in the third week and they started speaking the dialogues even before they appeared! We understood that the audience would repeat this.
Distributors said because there was an emergency then. The night show could not run in the theatre after 12 AM, it had to close. The first show in the morning... for four shows, a 3.5-hour film needs 3.75 or 4 hours. That's why we removed two scenes- Soorma Bhopali's and Asrani's jailer scene. Those were light scenes.
Then when all the distributors said that the audience was demanding it, bring back the scenes! Then we added them back. Such were the things.
