‘They’ve definitely not spoken to me or to Salimsaab.’

IMAGE: Dharmendra and Hema Malini in Sholay.

The brand new model of Sholay re-releases on December 12.

Titled Sholay – The Closing Reduce, it will resurrect the all-time traditional’s unique ending which has by no means been proven in film theatres within the fifty years of the movie’s existence.

What has brought on outrage is that one of many many iconic dialogues in Sholay has been altered within the new model. By whose permission? No one is aware of.

Actually not Director Ramesh Sippy or the movie’s co-writer Javed Akhtar who was furious when knowledgeable concerning the altered catchline in Sholay: The Closing Reduce.

Within the mentioned dialogue Basanti (Hema Malini) says, ‘Bade nishaanchi lagte ho (you appear fairly a sharpshooter)’ to Veeru (Dharmendra).

In reply, Jai (Amitabh Bachchan) jokes, ‘Haan, James Bond ke pote hain yeh‘.

Within the Sholay – The Closing Reduce trailer, Jai’s dialogue is ‘Haan, Tatya Tope ke pote hain yeh‘.

 

IMAGE: Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan in Sholay.

Fumes Javedsaab, “I used to be not conscious of this! You imply to say, they’ve changed James Bond with Tatya Tope? What does this imply? And this is only one dialogue. They could have equally modified different well-known strains. The viewers will not settle for this.”

Javedsaab additionally wonders by whose consent this modification has taken. “Have they spoken to the director?”

I inform Javedsaab that nobody has spoken to Ramesh Sippy.

“They’ve definitely not spoken to me or to Salimsaab (Khan, the opposite co-writer). We’re the writers of these strains which can be recited even right now by followers of Sholay.”

“Actually the dialogues of Sholay had been so fashionable that the music firm Polydor (now Common Music) needed to launch an album of dialogues which offered greater than the songs album. No, you possibly can’t tamper with this.’

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