Sholay

Jai and Veeru, two released prisoners, team up with Thakur Baldev Singh to capture the notorious dacoit Gabbar Singh, falling in love with Thakurs daughter-in-law and a horse-cart driver along the way, but tragedy strikes as Jai sacrifices himself to kill Gabbars men while Veeru seeks revenge and eventually captures Gabbar with the help of the police, ending with Veeru leaving the village to reunite with Basanti after Jais funeral. Sholay is a 1975 Indian Hindi-language Action Adventure motion picture featuring Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri, Amjad Khan and Sachin Pilgoankar. United Producers in association with Sippy Films. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) G. P. Sippy. Sholay is written by Salim Javed and directed by Ramesh Sippy. Sippy Films acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Sholay was released on 15th August 1975 and takes a screen time of 204 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. Sholay was made on a budget of ₹3 crore and it was a super hit at box office gross of ₹6 crore. Cinematography was done by Dwarka Divecha and editing by M. S. Shinde. The music was composed by Rahul Dev Burman along with R. D. Burman.