 People keep wondering about SHOLAY, the most successful movie in INDIA, a cult classic which spent years in various theatres of Bombay and other cities. The style, the dialogs, the eccentric villain and the never-seen-before locales created a strange amusement amongst the Indian movie connoisseurs. As a result, they worship the movie. Amitabh Bachchan shot to intense fame after the movie's release in the year 1976.
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Shishir
7/26/2007 01:59:44 pm
Hey Harshi,
Anonymous
2/19/2014 11:54:11 pm
HAHA. "Inspired". We Indians use that word VERY freely. Copy is a copy and stealing is stealing. End of story. Inspired would be having a certain amount of similarities, like The Beatles being inspired by Chuck Berry or Naruto being inspired by DBZ. 7/26/2007 02:07:48 pm
I do agree that movie can be inspired from novels. That would be total creativity but in this case it is sheer plagiarism. Even the song "Mehbooba O Mehbooba" has been a total remake of a song by German singer Demi Rouass. I believe in pure creativity and plagiarism is not worth giving a credit.
Shishir
7/27/2007 08:06:58 pm
Hey It's good that you collected such an important information . You put in great efforts to make us aware of such an unknown facts , i really appreciate it ..
kapil
12/9/2007 06:27:57 pm
good work buddy
kapil
12/9/2007 06:28:02 pm
good work buddy
kapil
12/9/2007 06:28:23 pm
good work buddy
karan
1/2/2008 02:03:22 pm
i agree wid u buddy....bt i dont care bout if its lifted from othr movies...the matter of fact i lik it is because of its DIALOGUES that did wonders......the intense acting////its nt easy 2 make a film based on other movies.....luk wat happnd 2 RGV ki aag....its all bout direction.... 12/9/2010 04:36:25 pm
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gabbar
4/10/2011 05:58:14 am
Javed akhtar cheater. 7/17/2012 08:21:24 am
Paper rolls. really wonderful read you know alot about this topic i see!.
Anonymous
2/19/2014 11:59:47 pm
YouTube search for "RD Burman Copycat" also to see how much India's supposed "greatest composer" (haha) has stolen. ALL of his biggest hits were stolen.
TEJI
5/30/2014 04:03:41 am
Here are some links,
dgfg
10/29/2014 06:18:44 pm
afzal
11/10/2014 11:13:24 pm
Perhaps you should have added a few facts to support a claim. Describe the scenes which you think are lift offs.
VARUN
3/29/2015 09:19:05 pm
Everything about bollywood is a lie. People should understand the difference between "inspired", "remake" and "copied". I hate bollywood because each and every bollywood movie that I liked in my childhood turned out of to be a "COPY" of a foreign movie
raju
7/10/2015 07:22:46 pm
indians are ashamed to admit they copy - so they rap their "copy" with nice words like inspiration. However good work I was looking for the original names. By the way even our constitution is coipied from British and the USA
arpit tiwari
8/15/2015 03:56:45 am
hey real nice piece of information... i wasnt aware about this fact
Arif
8/18/2015 02:01:44 am
These movies never seen by salim or javed lots of thing are similar in world that makes imagination and imagination creates story coincedently some things might be similar it doesn't mean it is copy. 11/12/2015 05:36:45 am
What I am wondering about is that Javed Akhtar always tells a story about Sholey, that Saleem Javed went to many producers with the script and it got refused for years. He never said that they went to producers with the film cans of the original movies. I also wonder that should you get so much of name, fame gratifications etc etc for translating and keeping on boasting about the creativity- of what - Translation? hi, inspirtions exists and idealism and lots of things exits , all industries do so, but cheating is not to mention on doing that :) e,g Aamir Khan flim Gajni is copied from "Bourn" series and Indian industry is full of such stories . The thing is viewers should be so infromative and active in knowledge and movies to know , instead of enjoying copies.
Though it is such a successful movie i feel sick to know that it was copied. I have seen the movie "Once upon a time in the West" and no one deny the fact that Sholay was copied after watching this movie.
sudipta dey
3/6/2016 03:43:59 am
yes very much true. sholay was copied from these four movies
Ali Hassan
5/18/2016 04:31:13 am
Thanks for providing such information. I was shocked to know that sholay which is considered as the greatest movies of bollywood is copied. Its like Bollywood means Copywood because most (70%) of movies are copied.
MAAN BHATIA
6/21/2016 10:19:19 pm
You are completely Mistaken Mr Harsha.The movie Magnificent seven was copied from the Japanese film The Seven Samurai (1954) and once upon a time in the west was insipired by 5 different westerns.For a few dollars more was an Italian western and not american.The Good the bad and ugly was itself an italian western.It's prequel A fistful of dollars was a shameless remake of the Japanese film "Yojimbo".So every inspiration is borrowed.Despite all these copy cats Sholay remains memorable because it was perfectly made.The famous film director Satyajit Ray called Sholay an excellent film because it was perfectly made.
Ganesh
9/10/2016 07:30:48 am
Copying alone is not enough to make a classic like Sholay. Salim javed cheated but not the actors or director or producer. And what is the harm in copying if it can entertain crores of public.
Arpan
12/10/2016 06:22:30 pm
And many of those westerns were "inspired" by Akira Kurosawa's films. Mr. Bhatia here has already got a good answer for you...so suck it...Sholey rocks...
desi
9/4/2017 02:40:18 am
Harshi, of course, there are some scenes copied from other movies....no movie ever has every single original scene. However, your desire to discredit Sholay has made you blinkered :
Chris
1/12/2019 11:33:22 am
Actually, there is only 1 Hollywood movie in this list of inspirations for SHOLAY.
Kasinath
10/4/2020 03:56:17 pm
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