![]() So, those nourished on a rich diet of Godard, or, Bergman, or, Antonioni, or Ozu may have reacted to the announcement of the film with the arrogant disdain they shared for every Bombay film – (“Bollywood” did not exist in the lexicon of Indian cinema) when Sholay was released.īut when the celluloid wonder called Sholay slowly unfolded, layer by slow layer, like the several peels of an onion, it was left to everyone from the intellectual to the illiterate, from the poor villager to the city-smart corporate guy to tilt a hat to this miracle of a film that lives on in the minds and hearts of all Indians 45 years after it was first released. Sholay is a brazenly open mainstream Bollywood film that makes no pretensions of being an artsy film.
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