Jai arrives to the rescue by attacking the gang, and the three are able to flee Gabbar's hideout with dacoits in pursuit. When the villagers refuse and instead get the duo to kill four of Gabbar's men in revenge for the boy's death, Gabbar angrily retaliates by having his men capture Veeru and Basanti, forcing the latter to dance non-stop or he will have Veeru killed. However, the skirmishes between Gabbar's gang and the duo intensify when Gabbar murders the local inam's son to coerce the villagers into surrendering Veeru and Jai. Jai is drawn to Thakur's widowed daughter-in-law Radha, who subtly returns his affections. Veeru is attracted to Basanti, a feisty, talkative young woman who makes her living by driving a horse-cart. While protecting Ramgarh, the jovial Veeru and cynical Jai find themselves growing fond of the villagers. Realizing how much Thakur has suffered at the hands of Gabbar and his thugs, Veeru and Jai have a change of a heart by declining the reward money and swearing an oath that they will capture Gabbar alive. Thakur explains that Gabbar had killed nearly all of his family members and had both his arms cut off a few years earlier, and that he concealed the dismemberment by always wearing a shawl, which is the sole reason why he could not use the gun in the first place. However, Veeru and Jai are upset at Thakur's inaction and consider calling off the deal by leaving the village. Veeru and Jai fight back and the bandits flee. Though Thakur has a gun within his reach, he does not help them. In a tough battle, Veeru and Jai are cornered. Soon afterwards, Gabbar and his goons attack Ramgarh during the festival of Holi. The two thieves thwart the dacoits sent by Gabbar to extort the villagers. Thakur tells them to surrender Gabbar to him alive for an additional ₹20,000 reward. Thakur feels that the duo – Veeru and Jai – would be ideal to help him capture Gabbar Singh, a dacoit wanted by the authorities for a ₹50,000 reward. In the small village of Ramgarh, former police inspector Thakur Baldev Singh summons a pair of small-time thieves that he had once arrested. In January 2014, Sholay was re-released to theatres in the 3D format. The film's dialogues and certain characters became extremely popular, contributing to numerous cultural memes and becoming part of India's daily vernacular. Burman, and the dialogues (released separately), set new sales records. The combined sales of the original soundtrack, scored by R. Scholars have noted several themes in the film, such as glorification of violence, conformation to feudal ethos, debate between social order and mobilised usurpers, homosocial bonding, and the film's role as a national allegory. Sholay is also a defining example of the masala film, which mixes several genres in one work. The film is a Dacoit Western (sometimes called a " Curry Western"), combining the conventions of Indian dacoit films with that of Spaghetti Westerns along with elements of Samurai cinema. By numerous accounts, Sholay remains one of the highest-grossing Indian films of all time, adjusted for inflation. It was the highest-grossing Indian film ever at the time, and was the highest-grossing film in India up until Hum Aapke Hain Koun.! (1994). The film was also an overseas success in the Soviet Union. It broke records for continuous showings in many theatres across India, and ran for more than five years at Mumbai's Minerva theatre. When first released, Sholay received negative critical reviews and a tepid commercial response, but favourable word-of-mouth publicity helped it to become a box office success. In 1990, the original director's cut of 204 minutes became available on home media. After the Central Board of Film Certification mandated the removal of several violent scenes, Sholay was released with a length of 198 minutes. The film was shot in the rocky terrain of Ramanagara, in the southern state of Karnataka, over a span of two and a half years. In 2005, the judges of the 50th Filmfare Awards named it the Best Film of 50 Years. It was ranked first in the British Film Institute's 2002 poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time.
Sholay is considered a classic and one of the best Indian films. Hema Malini and Jaya Bhaduri also star, as Veeru and Jai's love interests, Basanti and Radha, respectively. The film is about two criminals, Veeru ( Dharmendra) and Jai ( Amitabh Bachchan), hired by a retired police officer ( Sanjeev Kumar) to capture the ruthless dacoit Gabbar Singh ( Amjad Khan). Embers) is a 1975 Indian action-adventure film written by Salim–Javed, directed by Ramesh Sippy, and produced by his father G.