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Sholay
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Sholay (Embers) is the biggest hit in Indian cinema history, a Bollywood film from 1975 directed by Ramesh Sippy and featuring Amitabh Bachchan, one of the most famous actors in the business. The plot features Bachchan and Dharmendra as Jai and Veeru, two former thieves hired by Baldev Singh (Sanjeev Kumar), a former police officer who is the thakur (major landowner) of a small rural village. Their mission is to capture the infamous bandit Gabbar Singh, against whom Thakur has a personal grudge. On the way they have plenty of hijinks and even fall in love, Jai with Thakur's widowed daughter-in-law Radha and Veeru with the chatty horse cart driver Basanti (Hema Malini).If Mother India is Bollywood's Gone with the Wind, then this is its The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. From a business perspective, it's also Bollywood's Star Wars, or perhaps Raiders of the Lost Ark: Just as those productions cemented the Summer Blockbuster as the economic engine of Hollywood from the mid-1970s for the next 40+ years, Sholay made the masala film the economic engine of Bollywood for pretty much the same period. Subject of a truly disastrous remake in 2007 under the name Aag (Flame).Its soundtrack, of course, mainly comprises Filmi Music. | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: Gabbar Singh, to a T. Lack of Empathy? Check. Maintains a grand veneer of affability and only emitting shallow emotions? Check. Experiences extreme rage and is uplifted whether enemies or mooks are hurt? Check. Wouldn't care about killing women and children? Check. Willing to cross the Moral Event Horizon? Check. | |
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Those Two Guys | |
| Sholay / int_1c79ae8c | comment |
Those Two Guys: Jai and Veeru of course. To the point of becoming a part of Indian culture. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: How Thakur lost his arms. After Gabbar escapes from prison, he kills off Thakur's family, forcing Thakur to get after him. However, he ends up getting captured, and Gabbar slices off both his arms. In the final showdown, Thakur repeats the same words to Gabbar when Thakur squishes his hand with his foot. | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded: Gabbar Singh. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Gabbar Singh. See Faux Affably Evil below. | |
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Russian Roulette | |
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Russian Roulette: A variation of it in the You Have Failed Me scene where Kaalia returns with 2 other mooks. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Gabbar Singh kills off three of his men when they fail to collect the "tribute" from the villagers in a twisted version of Russian Roulette. | |
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You Have Failed Me | |
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You Have Failed Me: Gabbar Singh pulls this with three of his underlings: he takes a gun with six bullets, fires off three, and then spins the chambers and pulls the trigger at each man. Miraculously, all three escape alive. Until Gabbar shoots them anyways. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Veeru and Jai. Especially Jai. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Part of the reason why Thakur holds an enormous grudge against Gabbar is that the dacoit murdered his entire family, including his grandson. | |
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Huge Guy, Tiny Girl | |
| Sholay / int_4f6d87f7 | comment |
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Amitabh (playing Jai) is over six feet tall, and Jaya (playing Radha), his real life wife and his onscreen Sholay love interest, is a rather petite woman. | |
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The Dragon | |
| Sholay / int_53f5119f | comment |
Surprisingly, Basanti, given that she's essentially the comic relief. Gabbar Singh captures her and Veeru and tells her that she must dance for him and as long as her feet move his Dragon Samba won't shoot Veeru. She does this. Then some of Gabbar's men start throwing glass bottles at her, which shatter at her feet. So she continues to dance over the broken glass, until finally collapsing right in front of Veeru. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Gabbar Singh. Nearly everyone (except for Thakur, Jai and Veeru) run away and hide when he's around. | |
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Sacrificial Lamb | |
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Sacrificial Lamb: Thakur's family and Ahmed. | |
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Sacrificial Lion | |
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Sacrificial Lion: Jai. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Jai holds the bandits off while Basanti and Veeru escape to get help. He dies just as they come back with the cavalry. | |
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Evil Laugh | |
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Evil Laugh: Gabbar | |
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Knight of Cerebus | |
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Knight of Cerebus: Gabbar Singh. You know when he is on screen that something bad is about to happen. | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: Veeru and Basanti's relationship is made of this. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: In the climax, Thakur tells Gabbar that one doesn't need their hands to crush a snake. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: Gabbar Singh will often toy with his victims for fun, all the while maintaining a grandiose veneer of affability. For instance, he'll loudly laugh along with the rest of his gang before spontaneously executing a group of them for screwing up their mission. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Gabbar Singh. | |
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It's Personal | |
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It's Personal: Thakur holds a vendetta against Gabbar for murdering his entire family and chopping his hands off when Thakur arrested him for his banditry several years before the film's events. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bitter Sweet Ending: Gabbar gang is killed and he is captured, freeing the village from his tyranny and the Thakur avenges his family by crippling Gabbar. Basanti and Veeru end up together and leave the village, however, Jai is dead and Veeru is left heartbroken to lose his beloved friend and poor Radha is left alone again. | |
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Handicapped Badass | |
| Sholay / int_a7b324e | comment |
Handicapped Badass: Thakur is made of this trope. Arguably the most physically imposing character in the film, despite the fact he has no arms. Especially played up in his final showdown with Gabbar, in which he kicks Gabbar's ass | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Jai. | |
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Genki Girl | |
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Genki Girl: Basanti | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Anti-Hero: Jai and Veeru are both Type V at worst, but they graduate into Type III or even Type II during their fight with Gabbar. | |
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Re-Cut | |
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Re-Cut: A director's cut of the film was released on a British VHS tape in 1990, as well as on one of the DVD releases. Oddly enough, it is in fullscreen, while the theatrical cut is on widescreen. The changes are the scenes where the imam's son is killed, Thakur's family is massacred, and a few other violent scenes which were previously taken out of the film by the Indian censor board, are included, as well as an alternate ending where Thakur kills Gabbar. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Veeru goes on one of these after Gabbar's men kill Jai; he finishes off Gabbar's men and is about to kill Gabbar himself before Thakur stops him,so that Thakur can go on his own Roaring Rampage of Revenge. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
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An Arm and a Leg: Gabbar slices off Thakur's arms after wiping out the latter's entire family. But that doesen't stop Thakur from being the most imposing character of the film. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: Sholay is only one word. | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Thakur Baldev Singh is known mostly by his title "Thakur" rather than his actual name. | |
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Romancing the Widow | |
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Romancing the Widow: Jai's love interest is Thakur's widowed daughter-in-law. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: Surprisingly, Basanti, given that she's essentially the comic relief. Gabbar Singh captures her and Veeru and tells her that she must dance for him and as long as her feet move his Dragon Samba won't shoot Veeru. She does this. Then some of Gabbar's men start throwing glass bottles at her, which shatter at her feet. So she continues to dance over the broken glass, until finally collapsing right in front of Veeru. Thakur is this in the flashbacks. Even after a personal tragedy and losing his arms, won't stop him from getting his revenge. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: Jai arrives just as Basanti collapses from her dancing and Samba prepares to shoot Veeru. | |
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Bromance | |
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Bromance: The first song in the movie has Jai and Veeru sing about their undying love for each other and how they'll always stick together. | |
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You Killed My Father | |
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You Killed My Father: Gabbar Singh murdered Thakur's entire family, which is what drives the film's plot. | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: After Basanti has spent almost an entire paragraph without pausing for breath referring to herself in the third person several times, and then asks why Jai and Veeru haven't had the courtesy to ask her for her name: | |
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