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50 years of Sholay: Director Ramesh Sippy revisits the making of his magnum opus at Kolkata International Film Festival

Ramesh Sippy, director of the 1975 Bollywood classic Sholay, reminisced about the making of the film and said he ‘cannot make another Sholay as he delivered the Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture at the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival. “Sholay started as a two-line idea, probably a four-line idea… it’s a film that Salim-Javed put on…

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Ramesh Sippy On 50 Years Of Blockbuster

New Delhi: Ramesh Sippy, the maker of the iconic Bollywood movie Sholay, told NDTV in an exclusive conversation for the channel’s special series ‘India Through the Eyes of Its Icons’ that Manmohan Desai, widely known as the industry’s “showman,” rejected the idea of Sholay, saying, “It was not his kind of film.” “Sholay was a…

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