Its really debatable if this is the best Hindi movie ever , the best Indian movie ever , or like a lot of people think ..the best movie ever!!! But it certainly is among the best in a lot of categories .
Sholay is not the kind of movie that can be watched once and gotten over with. People have watched it a 100 times and still don't get enough of it. Even now, I like sitting with friends watching Sholay and try to say out all the dialogues one second in advance. It has the dialogues that will make a non-Hindi person , learn to speak the language. Just to speak out the dialogues.
Every character seems to have been built to perfection with loving care. Every scene seems to have been well thought-out. Every word spoken in the movie is a gem. And the silences are poetry. In just one shot , you'll see the perfect glide of emotions from a surprise to shock to sorrow to fury on Sanjeev Kumar's face , and wonder if it would be done better by anyone else. Was it the actor , was it the director , was it the cameraman whose genius brought it out ?! At the same time , this movie has some of the funniest sequences of all movies. And the perfect dance number ( Mehbooba) . And the perfect song for festivities ( Holi ke din).
In short , I think Sholay is a fluke of a movie. So many aspects of movie-making are in perfection here , its like the perfect chemical reaction that brought together four simple musicians to form the Beatles.... its like the rare occasion which brings about the perfect alignment of all the planets in one straight line.The analogies can be endless, but I hope you get the point :)
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