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Sholay is one of the best films made under the direction of Ramesh Sippy. This film was released in 1975 and it has completed 50 years. Even after 50 years, this film is still alive in the hearts of people. Fans keep watching it on OTT platform. On completion of 50 years of the film, it has been re-released on 12th December. At that time the film had earned huge money at the box office. But its budget was also very high for that time, after hearing which many people said that it was going to flop.
Ramesh Sippy has revealed in an interview that at that time the newspapers had declared Sholay a flop. Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra’s film was made with a budget of Rs 3 crore and proved to be an all-time blockbuster. The filmmaker told that industry trackers initially thought that the makers of the 1975 action comedy would never be able to recover their investment. Immediately after the film was released in theatres, it did not generate much revenue.
was declared a flop
Ramesh Sippy said in an interview to Siddharth Kannan- ‘He wrote that the investment was so much that the makers would never be able to recover it. He even claimed that such expensive films will ruin the industry. If filmmakers keep spending like this, the industry will sink. But after five weeks he took back his statement and admitted that he was wrong. The initial budget of the film was Rs 1 crore but in the end it was made for Rs 3 crore. Rs 1 crore at that time is equivalent to approximately Rs 100 crore today.
Ramesh Sippy further said – But right after the first quiet weekend, the whole atmosphere changed. After that the industry started celebrating the film. The industry was happy. He said- It is good that the big film did not work. The same discussion was taking place among distributors, exhibitors and producers. He felt that this film would ruin him. People thought that we had gone crazy by making such an expensive film.
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