Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra starrer superhit film ‘Sholay’ was released in theaters 50 years ago. In the film, the pair of both the actors left their mark in the hearts of the audience with their jugalbandhi and tremendous action scenes. Today, on 12th December, on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of ‘Sholay’, it has been released again in theaters.

Audience got special gift on the golden jubilee of ‘Sholay’
Today after 50 years, once again crowds of spectators have gathered in cinema halls to watch ‘Sholay’. To give a special gift to the fans on the occasion of Golden Jubilee, this iconic film of Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan was released in theatres.

It has been re-released on screen with the original climax of the film. But when ‘Sholay’ was released in theaters in 1975, it printed huge notes and for 19 years no other film could break this record.

Budget and box office collection of ‘Sholay’
‘Sholay’ was made at a cost of Rs 3 crore under the direction of Ramesh Sippy. After this, when this action packed film was released in 1975, it set records with its earnings at the box office. Made on a budget of just Rs 3 crore, this film earned Rs 15 crore and became the highest grossing Indian film. Even for 19 years, no Indian film could compete with the box office of ‘Sholay’.

Box office record of ‘Sholay’ broken after 19 years
‘Sholay’ has been doing well at the box office for a long time. The story of the film, the strong acting of the star cast and the cinematography were highly appreciated. For 19 years, a film could not be made which could beat the box office collection of ‘Sholay’. But in 1991, Sooraj Barjatya released his own film ‘Hum Aapke Hain Koun’.

In this, the pairing of Salman Khan and Madhuri Dixit was much talked about and it deposited Rs 72 crore in its account, leaving behind the box office collection of ‘Sholay’. Here too, along with the story and characters of the film, its album was also very much liked. This multi-starrer film was one of the hit films of that time.

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Exactly 50 years ago, on 15 August 1975, the story of Jai-Viru’s friendship, Gabbar’s cruelty and Thakur’s revenge were seen in Cinemahal. This story was launched in the cinema hall under the name ‘Sholay’. As soon as the film arrived, the flop started going. But gradually it started getting intoxicated among the people and then what happened is history.

Many experiments were done in this film. Earlier, such a bang stunt and rare stereophoneic sound were not used in any Bollywood film. Panavjan lenses were ordered to shoot this film which was making it more grand.

At a time when the success of the film was judged from Golden Jubilee and Silver Jubilee. ‘Sholay’ completed 60 Golden Jubilee (50 weeks in a single theater) and 100 silver jubilee (25 weeks in a single theater).

‘Sholay’ created new dimensions in Golden and Silver Jubilee

‘Sholay’ set a record of staying in cinema hall for 286 weeks. The film celebrated Silver Jubilee in more than 100 theaters. This is nothing. If you listen to the records related to the film’s Golden Jubilee, it will be really surprised.

• ‘Sholay’ completed 60 Golden Jubilee. This is history in itself because no film had done this before.
• If you convert 286 weeks of the film in a year, then it is more than 5 years. If you convert it in days, then these are 2002 days.
• That is, no film descended from cinema hall for more than 2000 days. For this reason, Dharmendra calls this film the eighth wonder of the world. So at the same time, Amitabh says that when this film was released, no one had an idea that milestone would prove to be proved.

Let me tell you that at that time, the 4 of the 4 crore version of this film will be shown at the Toronto Film Festival after the completion of the 50th anniversary on 6 September.