Sholay

[poetichustla]

....who agrees with me?..thats the best hindi movie ever made or is it the best hindi ever made!!

[pachaas Paisa]

not the besttt but one of the classics for sure

[poetichustla]

Originally Posted by pachaas Paisa

not the besttt but one of the classics for sure

i just watched it this morning and i rmrd how good it really was...luvv it!

[indibro]

best!

[lovindia]

Originally Posted by poetichustla

....who agrees with me?..thats the best hindi movie ever made or is it the best hindi ever made!!

yeh dosi hum nahi

[The Daku]

Originally Posted by poetichustla

....who agrees with me?..thats the best hindi movie ever made or is it the best hindi ever made!!

I agree man...Dharmendra was great in that movie.

[poetichustla]

Originally Posted by lovindia

yeh dosi hum nahi

shooday gaayeee ( i cant spell hindi but i sooo know how to sing the ssong!)

[poetichustla]

Originally Posted by The Daku

I agree man...Dharmendra was great in that movie.

yup..hes my fav actor all time

[J_Zilla]

the bestest!

[hellayah]

same sided coin...that was classic.

[poetichustla]

Gabar snigh was hardcore in that movie too

[djarpit]

Sholay and old Shakti!!

good ass moviesss

[hellayah]

Originally Posted by poetichustla

Gabar snigh was hardcore in that movie too

sooja varna gabar ah jaya gah

[sensousglitter]

mehbooba o mehbooba, mehbooba o mehbooba mmmmmmmmmmm

[poetichustla]

Originally Posted by hellayah

sooja varna gabar ah jaya gah

guy was hard...luved his acting in whole movie

[poetichustla]

ooo..cant forget
Basanti

[sky_]

Originally Posted by poetichustla

....who agrees with me?..thats the best hindi movie ever made or is it the best hindi ever made!!

if the story was original
then maybe it would be the bast

but it was a copy of an old western

but it is a classic but not the best

[hellayah]

Originally Posted by sky_

if the story was original
then maybe it would be the bast

but it was a copy of an old western

but it is a classic but not the best

which old western movie? i know my westerns

[sky_]

Originally Posted by hellayah

which old western movie? i know my westerns

to be honest i dont know the name
iv only seen it once

but then this program came on BBC2 once in the UK about Bollywood
and they showed that Western Film then Sholay

and i though Iv seen that Western

cant remmember the name but 90% of Bolly films are copies

[xbadkarmax]

isn't it about indian cowboys?

[hellayah]

Originally Posted by sky_

to be honest i dont know the name
iv only seen it once

but then this program came on BBC2 once in the UK about Bollywood
and they showed that Western Film then Sholay

and i though Iv seen that Western

cant remmember the name but 90% of Bolly films are copies

was it called THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

[titu786]

yoo moma

[Fatty4life]

khamoshi> Sholay.

[titu786]

Originally Posted by Fatty4life

khamoshi> Sholay.

fattigirl > fatty4life

[djarpit]

heree


Not satisfied with copying straight up from just one Hollywood movie, director Ramesh Sippy chose to remix several of them together to create his own magnus opus, "Sholay" (Sparks). As our first submitter Pankaz notes, it's a borrowed cocktail. But we guess the "credit" should actually go to screenwriter Javed Akhtar, who's responsible for "coming up with" stories for more than one BollyCat.

The Magnificent Seven [1960]Combining all the submissions we've received for this BollyCat, we've come up with six movies: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "Once Upon a time in the west", "Magnificient Seven", "The Wild Bunch" & "The Seven Samurai". It'd be a kill not to note that "The Magnificient Seven" was actually based on Akira Kurosawa's Japanese classic, "The Seven Samurai" but, based on the fact that western themes are followed throughout "Sholay", we believe Mr. Sippy focused on the Hollywood version instead of the Japanese one.

Whereas "The Magnificient Seven" had seven badasses hired to do a good dead, our BollyCat had just two, because seven protagonists in Bollywood would need as many love interests, and three hours just isn't enough time for all that. Focus here is on how these two guys, recruited by a victim to seek vengeance for his suffering, slowly morph into good guys as the movie progresses. The bad guy has his very own army of bandits, who loot the villagers in a routine basis in return for sparing their lives (talk about catch 22s!).

Sholay [1975]The movie also borrows heavily from other 60s westerns. Rajkeshar Singh pointed us to the fact that many memorable moments from "Once Upon a Time in the West" have been copid "scene by scene", like the one where the family of the victim is killed off by the bandits. There's also this "train scene" lifted from "The Wild Bunch".

Kedar noted in his submission that "'Sholay' is the best Indianization of a foreign theme", and we agree. Thanks to Anyway, Shad, Vinod, Anonymous, Pakistani, Rajeev Sharma, Suhail and Kolkatar Jeeshu for also submitting this.

On a side note, the movie's two famous Hindi songs were also results of blunt plagiarism. Demis Roussous's tenderly sung "Love You Love You" was turned into "Mehbooba" and "O Jab Tak Hai Jaan" was inspired by Iranian singer Googoosh's "Jomeh".