Bollywood epics returned to the big screen after 50 years

After fifty years in India’s screens, Sholay (Embers) competed for the first time.

For film lovers, Ramesh Sippy has been a renovated version of 1975. Magnum Opus will have his world premiere Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna, Italy, Friday. This version of the original end of the film – changed against censors, and deleted scenes.

The screening will be on the open air-open air screen in Piazza Maggiore – It is the largest in Europe. A great atmosphere of the filmmaker to take care of long-standing hope will be offered.

Writer Duo Salim and Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Jaya Bhaduri, Jaya Bhaduri and Gabbar Singh includes all the stars directed by Amjad Khan. Sholay draws a cinematic inspiration from the classic western and samurai. However, it remains a solo Indian.

The 204-minute film is located in the fictional village of Ramgarh, where two criminals, Bachchan and Dharmendra), Thakur Baldev Singh, to remove the Bandit Bandit Gabbar Singh.

When it was first released, Sholay has been unbroken for five years in Mumbai at a 1,500-seat minerva theater. Later the “Millennium film” voted in the BBC India online survey and the British Film Institute in India. Interviews about half a million records and RD Burman’s score and films were immediately known.

The film is also a cultural phenomenon: interviews are mentioned in marriages, referred to Political talks and ads.

“Sholay is the eighth of the world,” Dharmendra, who plays a small town and is associated with Bachchan in the film, said in a final expression.

Shooting film was “unforgettable experience”, Bachchan said: “Even at the time the Indian cinema became a current cinema water.”

This new restoration is the faithful version of Sholay, with the original end and never seen with unseen scenes, according to the Heritage Foundation of Shivendra Singh Dungarpur.

In the original version, Gabbar Singh died – Thakur killed, who crushes shoes shoes.

Censors however, however. The director asked him to take the idea of ​​a former police officer. They also found excessive film stylized violence. The film confronted the unusual censors because he plays the theaters UrgencyWhen the Government of Congress authorities abandoned civil liberties.

After making the attempt to reason with them, the SIFPY end was forced to eliminate the end. Actors and crew Ramanagaram returned to the rugged mountains of Ramanagaram in southern India – they became Ramgarh fictional town. With a new and soft final – Gabbar Singh is caught, he did not die, in his way, he finally cleaned the censor movies.

The restoration path of the epic three long years has been easy. The original 700mm recordings did not survive, and the negatives of the camera were in the wrong situation.

But in 2022, the son of Ramesh Sippy, approached to the Mumbai-based film heritage foundation, with the proposal to restore the film.

He revealed that several film elements were being stored in a warehouse of Mumbai. What seemed like a bet seemed to be a miracle: the marked cans were 35mm inside the camera and negative sounds.

Excitement is not over.

Sippy films are about the foundation on more coil stored in the UK. With the help of the British Film Institute, the Group obtained access to archives. These were carefully sent to the Bologna L’Imagine Ritrovata, one of the main world of film restoration facilities.

Damaged 700 mm prints and negatives, archivists formed by Mumbai and UK archivists, with the British Film Institute and the film L’Immagine Ritrovata. The effort also discovered the original camera used to shoot the film.

It is interesting when Sholay had started on the screens when he first hit the screens. Early reviews were hard, the box office was shameless, and 70mm printing was delayed in customs.

India Today the magazine called the film “Dead Ember”. Filmfare’s Bikram Singh has been a successful attempt at the “Successful Essay” attempt, inserting west west. “

“The film remains the western imitation, not here not there.”

In the initial projections, the audience sat in silence – no laughter, no tears, no applause. “It’s just silence,” Anupama Chopra writes in her book, Sholay: Make a classic. On the weekend, the theaters were full, but the answer has been questionable, and the panic has entered.

In the coming weeks, audiovisuals spread the word of the film, and were audiovisual, and in the third week, the audience said he was repeating the conversations.

Sholay hit after a month after the screen, political 48 minute interview record released – and turned the tide. The characters of the film became iconic and gabbar Singh – “really scary, but it was very popular with the villain – the foreign critics called the first” curry western “Indian.

Sholay for more than five years – three regular shows and two Mumai Minervan. 240. The shows were also full of shows. Sholay hit Pakistani screens in April 2015And despite being 40 years old, he exceeded most of Indian films over the old decade, starring Shah Rukh Khan 2002 hit Devdas.

As Shyam Shoff’s film distributor said to Chopra: “As they said about the British Empire, the sun never shook.”

Why does Sholay resonate with the audience, half a century later? Amitabh Bachchan offers a simple but deep answer: “Victory over evil and … The most important thing, poetic justice in three hours! You and I will get in a life,” he said interviewer.