By Admin 
This August 15 is completing 50 years of release of Indian cinema’s Cult film ‘Sholay’. The film, directed by Ramesh Sippy on the 50th anniversary of the film, will be premiered in Toronto on 6 September. The 4K version of the film will be available to the audience in Amireka.
After such a big news related to the film, discussions have started again about this film. In such a situation, let us know many amazing things related to this film, which will make you realize why this film became a Cult.
This film was also seen a lot abroad
This film of Amitabh Bachchan-Dharmendra and Amjad Khan continued for more than 2000 days in India. This film, which got many silver and golden jubilee, was seen not only in India but also abroad.
- The film was highly appreciated in the Middle East and in the Soviet Union. Till the Soviet Union, Raj Kapoor was the first to spread the madness of Bollywood films. Years later, there was a similar craze about ‘Sholay’.
- During that time ‘Sholay’ in the Soviet Union Millions of people were made fans. The underground fan clubs of its dubbed prints were formed. These fans had even rote the dialogues of ‘Sholay’. He then started raising slogans like ‘Dancing in front of these dogs’ in broken Hindi.
- Not only this, after this, films like Moula Jatt, a 1979 film in Pakistan, were also inspired by this film. Not only this, a country like Turkey also started making action films with inspiration from this film.
Budget and box office collection of ‘Sholay’
At that time, ‘Sholay’ was prepared in a very expensive budget of Rs 3 crore and the film earned about 12 times its budget. The box office collection of the film was 35 crores in those days, which was the highest collection in 1994 till ‘Hum Aapke Hain Kaun’ came.