Thursday, September 4, 2014

Bioscope – XVII [Outstanding - IV ]



I conclude the list of my favourite Bengali and Hindi movies with this one. This film is still such a rage that here and there you still can hear "Kitne aadmi the" or "tera kya hoga Kaliya". Even after 39 years I feel technically it was one of the the best Indian movie.

Sholay was released on 15 August 1975, Indian Independence Day, in Mumbai. Due to lacklustre reviews and a lack of effective visual marketing tools, it saw poor financial returns in its first two weeks. From the third week, however, viewership picked up owing to positive word of mouth. During the initial slow period, the director and writer considered re-shooting some scenes so that Amitabh Bachchan's character would not die.
When business picked up, they abandoned this idea. After being helped additionally by a soundtrack release containing dialogue snippets, Sholay soon became an "overnight sensation". The film was then released in other distribution zones such as Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal, and Hyderabad on 11 October
1975. It became the highest grossing Bollywood film of 1975, and film ranking website Box Office India has given the film a verdict of "All Time Blockbuster".

Sholay went on to earn a still-standing record of 60 golden jubilees across India,




Sholay (1975)

Concept based on western cowboy type movie with Indian tadka.



          Director                  :       Ramesh Sippy
          Producer                 :       G. P. Sippy
          Screenplay              :       Salim-Javed
          Cast                       :       Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri, Amjad Khan
          Music                      :       R. D. Burman
          Cinematography      :       Dwarka Divecha
          Editor                     :       M.S. Shinde

It is still unbeliavle that Sholay won only two filmfare award.

Special Award        Ramesh Sippy Best film in the last 50 years of Indian cinema.
Filmfare Award       Best Editor M.S. Shinde

It was declared the "Film of the Millennium" by BBC India in 1999. It topped the British Film Institute’s "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time poll of 2002, and was voted the greatest Indian movie in a Sky Digital poll of one million British Indians in 2004. It was also included in Time Magazine's "Best of Bollywood" list in 2010, and in CNN-IBN's list of the "100 greatest Indian films of all time" in 2013

It is very difficult to pick a list of such a huge list and I know I missed a few. Every movie made by Bimal Roy was classic. Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chaterjee gave many memorable movies. some of Mahesh Bhatt movies and most of Raj Kappor movies too was good. There are lots of current movie maker doing good but frankly I don’t like the dark movies that made by Anurag Kasjyap or others, however I will always fell for movies made by people like Neeraj Pandey and the lots.
After a break I will come back with my list of Hollywood movies and it will be a challenging task which I looking forward.


!!!The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in. - Karrine Steffans!!!