Talk:Sholay

'Sholay' (1975) is mostly based on an Spanish movie 'Tu fosa será la exacta... amigo' (11/8/1972)
Hello Readers.'Until today I thought 'Sholay' was an original script but like many Indian Hit Films, this one too is not an original one. I just stumbled upon a film titled 'MY HORSE, MY GUN, YOUR WIDOW' on online videos website. Saw the movie and discovered that the characters, their look inspiration, story and even some scenes (ex. Russian Roulette) were picked directly from the movie.

Indian movie makers are such incompetent that they can't even develop an original story. I feel what most of them do is sneak peak into successful or non successful movies made in some corner of the world pick up the entire plot to begin with. Then they shred and add some parts (also smuggled from some other such movies) and then just Indianize the whole story and make a movie on it. I just referred wikipedia page of Sholay saying under Production section that Salim-Javed started narrating story to producers in 1973. That's roughly after 4 to 5 months of original movie's release on 11/8/1972. I am simply amazed how someone can take appreciation for this many years for the work in which they put negligible effort and were lucky enough to get away with it. Out of the duo, I'd held Salim Khan responsible for all this as he was the one who developed story and characters while Javed Akhtar was responsible for just dialogues and screenplay.

Here are the further details about the movie from which 'Sholay' is heavily inspired. The movie 'MY HORSE, MY GUN, YOUR WIDOW' is the English translated version of the movie. The original movie seems to be in Spanish released as 'Tu fosa será la exacta... Amigo.' and also in Italian as 'Domani passo a salutare la tua vedova... parola di Epidemia'. The movie starring famous Hollywood actor Craig Hill. It was released in Spanish and Italian in 1972 and it was directed by Juan Bosch (as John Wood).

[https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Domani_passo_a_salutare_la_tua_vedova..._parola_di_Epidemia ref. web.] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dp.online (talk • contribs) 22:10, 12 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi. Sholay is based on a real-life bandit in India called Gabbar Singh who was killed in Nehru era. Aminabzz (talk) 22:11, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Seven Samurai is more likely the inspiration for making Sholay. Aminabzz (talk) 22:18, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 February 2019
It became a cult classic movie. Rout.nishith (talk) 18:43, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. &#8209;&#8209; El Hef  ( Meep? ) 18:50, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

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Hi. The melody of this music is exactly the melody of Iranian song Jomeh by Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh and Farhad Mehrad, which was released on 1970. Just listen to it. You will find out. Aminabzz (talk) 22:14, 22 July 2023 (UTC)