One can only hope that the theater takes the traditional interval break for a trip to the rest room and snack bar.

At 162 minutes, that works out to about 3 cents a minute-entertainment’s biggest bargain. Sholay made Bachchan the nation’s idol, and he is still considered to be the greatest Hindi film star of all time (he carried the Olympic torch through London’s South Asian Southwark neighborhood before the London Games). Indian fans memorized lines that have been quoted ever since, such as “Kitne aadmi the?” (“How many men were there?”), when Gabbar demands of his henchman an explanation for why they were out-skirmished by our heroes. The music (which includes “Yeh Dosti,” a classic ode to male bonding, and “Mehbooba”, danced by Bollywood’s premiere vamp, Helen) and the dialogue were released on separate LP records. Burman, the dialogue by Salim-Javed and the characters, who also include garrulous female horse cart driver Basanti (Hema Malini) and the wistful widow Radha (Jaya Bhaduri).

Everything about Sholay, which initially ran in theaters for five solid years, attained classic status and quickly entered the pop culture mainstream: the music by R.D. More than just a heroic quest, it’s also a buddy comedy, a romance and, of course, a musical-the very definition of a Masala film, that satisfying blend of warming spices.Īmitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra play two outlaws hired by a traumatized police officer (Sanjeev Kumar) to avenge the brutal murder of his family by Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan), the most feared villain in Hindi film. Modeled on spaghetti Westerns (indeed, sometimes called a “curry Western”) and echoing themes in Akira Kurasawa’s epic The Seven Samurai, Sholay’s influence has echoed down the generations. Tonight, The Cary screens the legendary SHOLAY (“Embers), a 1975 film that many would not hesitate to call the greatest Hindi film of all time. Chatham Street), a downtown gem that has been putting classic Bollywood on the big screen. None has taken a more interesting route than The Cary Theater (122 E. Since the demise of the late, lamented Galaxy Cinema, several theaters have stepped up to satisfy the significant local audience for South Asian films.

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