Sholay a copy of Classic Western Films including Mehbooba Song, Dharmendra’s Tank Scene
Sholay a copy of
Classic Western Films including Mehbooba Song, Dharmendra’s Tank Scene
Not many may be versed that the Ramesh Sippy helmed magnum opus Sholay featuring Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra & Hema Malini is a copy of different Hollywood Films.
It was way back in 1975, that one of the most iconic films, Sholay, packed with emotion, drama, dance, action and whatnot, kissed the silver screen and turned a massive hit at the domestic box office and broke all time record.
The movie featured Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini and Dharmendra and Sanjeev Kumarin pivotal roles.
Now, actor Adil Hussain and a bunch of other people pointed out the uncanny similarity amidst different scenes from Sholay and these Western films.
Taking to his twitter handle, Adil Hussain shared a sequence from Sergio Leonne’s iconic Spaghetti Western Once Upon A Time in the West, which resembled Sholay’s scene where Gabbar (Amjad Khan) shoots down Thakur’s (Sanjeev Kumar) family one by one.
Sharing the clip, Adil wrote, “Ha ha… Who would have thought that portions of one of the most watche and admired films in India will be a copy of this film below… Probably you already knew that!? .. But didn’t..”
As soon as it had hit the internet, netizens started to comment on it and lauded the movie Sholay. One wrote, “I think sholay did a fine job of localizing the content and making it resonate with much larger indian audience at that time who wouldnt have access to hollywood and even if had access wouldn’t have resonated much with cowboy and wild west themes as in the original flick.”
Another Twitteratti penned, “Wowww… I’m amazed to see this Truly shocking for the film which has inspired generations… It’s really difficult to guess which is the real/original cinema.”
One shocked netizen commented, “Sholey bhi ?? You too Sippy ???”
Another comment read, “I wonder what Javed Akhtar did… It’s frame by frame copied, even the background score, costume, sets every damn things is copied.”
Another wrote,”Entire Sholay film is a mix of more than dozen western ( American) films. Famous Dharmendra water tank scene is from ‘ Secret of Santa Victoria’. ‘ Mehbooba’ song & action scene is from ‘ The Professionals’ ( Burt Lenchester & Lee Marvin.”
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