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Ranked #1 of 100
Sholay
शोले · 1975
The Curry Western that became the country's shared memory. Two small-time crooks, a one-armed ex-cop and the greatest villain Hindi cinema ever wrote. Every line is a proverb now.
- Director
- Ramesh Sippy
- Year
- 1975
- Genre
- Action · Drama
- Cast
- Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Amjad Khan
Why it's at number 1
It is the only Indian film that plays continuously in the national bloodstream — dialogue, sound design, silhouette.
The Curry Western that became the country's shared memory. Two small-time crooks, a one-armed ex-cop and the greatest villain Hindi cinema ever wrote. Every line is a proverb now.
Sholay sits in the 1970s alongside Deewaar and Anand — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Ramesh Sippy.
- Released in 1975, in the 1970s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Action, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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