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* BitterSweetEnding: Gabbar gang is killed and he is captured, freeing the village from his tyranny and the Thakur avenges his family by crippling Gabbar. Basanti and Veeru end up together and leave the village,[[spoiler: however, Jai is dead and Veeru is left heartbroken to lose his beloved friend and poor Radha is left alone again.]]
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''Sholay'' (''Embers'') is the biggest hit in Indian cinema history, a Bollywood film from 1975 directed by Ramesh Sippy and featuring Creator/AmitabhBachchan, one of the most famous actors in the business. The plot features Bachchan and Dharmendra as Jai and Veeru, two former thieves hired by Baldev Singh (Creator/SanjeevKumar), a former police officer who is the thakur (major landowner) of a small rural village. Their mission is to capture the infamous bandit Gabbar Singh, against whom Thakur has a personal grudge. On the way they have plenty of hijinks and even fall in love, Jai with Thakur's widowed daughter-in-law Radha and Veeru with the chatty horse cart driver Basanti (Creator/HemaMalini).
If ''Bollywood/MotherIndia'' is UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}'s ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', then this is its ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''. Subject of a truly disastrous remake in 2007 under the name '''''Aag''''' (''Flame'').
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AnArmAndALeg: Gabbar slices off Thakur's arms [[spoiler: after wiping out the latter's entire family]]. [[HandicappedBadass But that doesen't stop Thakur from being the most imposing character of the film.]]
* AntiHero: Jai and Veeru are both Type V at worst, but they graduate into Type III or even Type II during their fight with Gabbar.
* AxCrazy: Gabbar Singh. See FauxAffablyEvil below.
* BadBoss: Gabbar Singh kills off three of his men when they fail to collect the "tribute" from the villagers in a twisted version of RussianRoulette.
-->'''Gabbar:''' ''[pacing back and forth dragging a bandolier]'' How many men were there?
-->'''Kaalia:''' ''[stammers]'' Two men, sir.\\
'''Gabbar:''' Hmm. Two men. ''[stops pacing and suddenly turns to them]'' '''[[SuddenlyShouting YOU]] [[PrecisionFStrike ASSHOLES!]]''' ''[calms down]'' They were two, and you three. Yet you returned... empty-handed? What did you think of? That I'll be happy? That I'll praise you, eh? '''DAMN YOU!''' ''[calms down, then turns to Samba]'' Hey Sambha, what's the reward for my capture?\\
'''Samba:''' A full 50,000.\\
'''Gabbar:''' You heard? A full 50,000. And this has been put on my head because even in far-flung villages, when a child cries in the middle of the night, their mother tells them "Son, go to sleep. Sleep or Gabbar Singh will arrive". And ''these three bastards,'' '''they've tarnished my name!''' You will be punished for this. ''Rest assured, you will!'' ''[goes to a henchman and asks for his pistol]'' How many bullets does this gun have? ''How many?!''\\
'''Henchman:''' Six, sir.\\
'''Gabbar:''' Six. Six bullets. This gun has six bullets. Six bullets for three men. '''This is injustice!''' ''[fires three rounds in the air]'' It's fine. Now it's fine. Now three chambers have bullets, while the other three are empty. Then I'll roll it. ''[rolls the chamber]'' Now where are the bullets, where they aren't, I don't know. ''[[SuddenlyShouting I don't know anything!]]'' This pistol now contains three lives, and three deaths. Let's see who gets what. ''[put the gun behind one of his mooks, and presses the trigger, but nothing happens]'' The bastard's spared. ''[does the same thing to another mook, but nothing happens]'' He too is spared. ''[points the gun at Kaalia]'' What will happen to you, Kaliya?\\
'''Kaalia:''' ''[stammering]'' Sir, I've been a faithful supporter of yours, sir.\\
'''Gabbar:''' Now, eat the bullet. ''[the gun clicks, but nothing happens]'' This is strange. ''[suddenly bursts laughing]'' These three got spared! These three... these bastards didn't get a bullet... ''[soon all of Gabbar's henchmen burst into laughter, including the three mooks]'' They... they got spared! ''[they continue laughing, until the three mooks turn to Gabbar, who abruptly kills them while the other henchmen stop laughing. He then looks around at them, sending a DeathGlare.]'' He who is afraid is ''dead''. ''[spits at the ground]'' When is Holi? When is it? ''When?''
* BadassBoast: In the climax, Thakur tells Gabbar that one doesn't need their hands to crush a snake.
-->'''Gabbar:''' ''[[[SmugSnake smugly]]]'' How do you plan to fight me, Thakur? I've cut off and discarded your arms.
-->'''Thakur:''' One doesn't need their hands to crush a snake, but with their feet, Gabbar. My feet are more than enough to crush you.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Veeru and Basanti's relationship is made of this.
* BigBad: Gabbar Singh.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Jai arrives just as Basanti collapses from her dancing and Samba prepares to shoot Veeru.]]
* {{Bowdlerise}}: The initial film had [[spoiler:Thakur kill Gabbar]]. However, India's film censors ordered the makers to change the ending, and instead, an alternate ending shows [[spoiler:police arriving just before Thakur can kill Gabbar]].
* {{Bromance}}: The first song in the movie has Jai and Veeru sing about their undying love for each other and how they'll always stick together.
* DeadpanSnarker: Jai.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: After Basanti has spent almost an entire paragraph without pausing for breath referring to herself in the third person several times, and ''then'' asks why Jai and Veeru haven't had the courtesy to ask her for her name:
---> '''Jai:''' What is your name, Basanti?
* {{Determinator}}:
** Surprisingly, Basanti, given that she's essentially the comic relief. [[spoiler: Gabbar Singh captures her and Veeru and tells her that she must dance for him and as long as her feet move his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Samba won't shoot Veeru. She does this. Then some of Gabbar's men start throwing glass bottles at her, which shatter at her feet. So she continues to dance over the broken glass, until finally collapsing right in front of Veeru.]]
** Thakur is this in the flashbacks. Even after a personal tragedy and losing his arms, won't stop him from getting his revenge.
* TheDreaded: Gabbar Singh.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Thakur Baldev Singh is known mostly by his title "Thakur" rather than his actual name.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Gabbar Singh will often toy with his victims for fun, all the while maintaining a grandiose veneer of affability. For instance, he'll loudly laugh along with the rest of his gang before spontaneously executing a group of them for screwing up their mission.
* EvilLaugh: Gabbar
* GenkiGirl: Basanti
* HandicappedBadass: Thakur is made of this trope. Arguably the most physically imposing character in the film, despite the fact he has no arms. Especially played up in his final showdown with Gabbar, [[spoiler: in which he kicks Gabbar's ''ass'']]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Jai holds the bandits off while Basanti and Veeru escape to get help. He dies just as they come back with the cavalry]].
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Amitabh (playing Jai) is over six feet tall, and Jaya (playing Radha), his real life wife and his onscreen ''Sholay'' love interest, is a rather petite woman.
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler:How Thakur lost his arms. After Gabbar escapes from prison, he kills off Thakur's family, forcing Thakur to get after him. However, he ends up getting captured, and Gabbar slices off both his arms.]]
--> '''Gabbar:''' Give me those arms, Thakur.
--> '''Thakur:''' No!
--> '''Gabbar:''' Give me your arms, Thakur!
** In the final showdown, Thakur repeats the same words to Gabbar when Thakur squishes his hand with his foot.
--> '''Thakur:''' Gabbar, give me your arms.
--> '''Gabbar:''' Never!
--> '''Thakur:''' Give them to ME!
* ItsPersonal: Thakur holds a vendetta against Gabbar for [[spoiler:murdering his entire family and chopping his hands off when Thakur arrested him for his banditry several years before the film's events.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Veeru and Jai. Especially Jai.
* KnightOfCerebus: Gabbar Singh. You know when he is on screen that something bad is about to happen.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Gabbar Singh. Nearly everyone (except for Thakur, Jai and Veeru) run away and hide when he's around.
* OneWordTitle: ''Sholay'' is only one word.
* ReCut: A director's cut of the film was released on a British VHS tape in 1990, as well as on one of the DVD releases. Oddly enough, it is in fullscreen, while the theatrical cut is on widescreen. The changes are [[spoiler: the scenes where the imam's son is killed, Thakur's family is massacred, and a few other violent scenes which were previously taken out of the film by the Indian censor board, are included, as well as an alternate ending where Thakur kills Gabbar.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Veeru goes on one of these after [[spoiler: Gabbar's men kill Jai; he finishes off Gabbar's men and is about to kill Gabbar himself before Thakur stops him,so that Thakur can go on his own Roaring Rampage of Revenge.]]
* RomancingTheWidow: Jai's love interest is Thakur's widowed daughter-in-law.
* RussianRoulette: A variation of it in the YouHaveFailedMe scene where Kaalia returns with 2 other mooks.
* TheSociopath: Gabbar Singh, to a T. LackOfEmpathy? Check. [[FauxAffablyEvil Maintains a]] [[ForTheEvulz grand veneer]] [[SmugSnake of affability]] and only emitting [[ItsAllAboutMe shallow emotions]]? Check. [[AxCrazy Experiences]] [[HairTriggerTemper extreme rage]] [[MoodSwinger and is uplifted whether]] [[{{Sadist}} enemies]] [[BadBoss or mooks are hurt]]? Check. [[WouldHitAGirl Wouldn't care about killing women]] [[WouldHurtAChild and children]]? Check. Willing to cross the MoralEventHorizon? Check.
* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler: Thakur's family and Ahmed]].
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Jai]].
* ThoseTwoGuys: Jai and Veeru of course. To the point of becoming a part of Indian culture.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Gabbar Singh pulls this with three of his underlings: he takes a gun with six bullets, fires off three, and then spins the chambers and pulls the trigger at each man. Miraculously, all three escape alive. [[spoiler: Until Gabbar shoots them anyways]].
* YouKilledMyFather: Gabbar Singh murdered [[spoiler:Thakur's entire family, which is what drives the film's plot.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Part of the reason why Thakur holds an enormous grudge against Gabbar is that the dacoit [[spoiler:murdered his entire family, including his grandson.]]
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''Sholay'' (''Embers'') is the biggest hit in Indian cinema history, a Bollywood film from 1975 directed by Ramesh Sippy and featuring Creator/AmitabhBachchan, one of the most famous actors in the business. The plot features Bachchan and Dharmendra as Jai and Veeru, two former thieves hired by Baldev Singh (Creator/SanjeevKumar), a former police officer who is the thakur (major landowner) of a small rural village. Their mission is to capture the infamous bandit Gabbar Singh, against whom Thakur has a personal grudge. On the way they have plenty of hijinks and even fall in love, Jai with Thakur's widowed daughter-in-law Radha and Veeru with the chatty horse cart driver Basanti (Creator/HemaMalini).
If ''Bollywood/MotherIndia'' is UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}'s ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', then this is its ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''. Subject of a truly disastrous remake in 2007 under the name '''''Aag''''' (''Flame'').
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AnArmAndALeg: Gabbar slices off Thakur's arms [[spoiler: after wiping out the latter's entire family]]. [[HandicappedBadass But that doesen't stop Thakur from being the most imposing character of the film.]]
* AntiHero: Jai and Veeru are both Type V at worst, but they graduate into Type III or even Type II during their fight with Gabbar.
* AxCrazy: Gabbar Singh. See FauxAffablyEvil below.
* BadBoss: Gabbar Singh kills off three of his men when they fail to collect the "tribute" from the villagers in a twisted version of RussianRoulette.
-->'''Gabbar:''' ''[pacing back and forth dragging a bandolier]'' How many men were there?
-->'''Kaalia:''' ''[stammers]'' Two men, sir.\\
'''Gabbar:''' Hmm. Two men. ''[stops pacing and suddenly turns to them]'' '''[[SuddenlyShouting YOU]] [[PrecisionFStrike ASSHOLES!]]''' ''[calms down]'' They were two, and you three. Yet you returned... empty-handed? What did you think of? That I'll be happy? That I'll praise you, eh? '''DAMN YOU!''' ''[calms down, then turns to Samba]'' Hey Sambha, what's the reward for my capture?\\
'''Samba:''' A full 50,000.\\
'''Gabbar:''' You heard? A full 50,000. And this has been put on my head because even in far-flung villages, when a child cries in the middle of the night, their mother tells them "Son, go to sleep. Sleep or Gabbar Singh will arrive". And ''these three bastards,'' '''they've tarnished my name!''' You will be punished for this. ''Rest assured, you will!'' ''[goes to a henchman and asks for his pistol]'' How many bullets does this gun have? ''How many?!''\\
'''Henchman:''' Six, sir.\\
'''Gabbar:''' Six. Six bullets. This gun has six bullets. Six bullets for three men. '''This is injustice!''' ''[fires three rounds in the air]'' It's fine. Now it's fine. Now three chambers have bullets, while the other three are empty. Then I'll roll it. ''[rolls the chamber]'' Now where are the bullets, where they aren't, I don't know. ''[[SuddenlyShouting I don't know anything!]]'' This pistol now contains three lives, and three deaths. Let's see who gets what. ''[put the gun behind one of his mooks, and presses the trigger, but nothing happens]'' The bastard's spared. ''[does the same thing to another mook, but nothing happens]'' He too is spared. ''[points the gun at Kaalia]'' What will happen to you, Kaliya?\\
'''Kaalia:''' ''[stammering]'' Sir, I've been a faithful supporter of yours, sir.\\
'''Gabbar:''' Now, eat the bullet. ''[the gun clicks, but nothing happens]'' This is strange. ''[suddenly bursts laughing]'' These three got spared! These three... these bastards didn't get a bullet... ''[soon all of Gabbar's henchmen burst into laughter, including the three mooks]'' They... they got spared! ''[they continue laughing, until the three mooks turn to Gabbar, who abruptly kills them while the other henchmen stop laughing. He then looks around at them, sending a DeathGlare.]'' He who is afraid is ''dead''. ''[spits at the ground]'' When is Holi? When is it? ''When?''
* BadassBoast: In the climax, Thakur tells Gabbar that one doesn't need their hands to crush a snake.
-->'''Gabbar:''' ''[[[SmugSnake smugly]]]'' How do you plan to fight me, Thakur? I've cut off and discarded your arms.
-->'''Thakur:''' One doesn't need their hands to crush a snake, but with their feet, Gabbar. My feet are more than enough to crush you.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Veeru and Basanti's relationship is made of this.
* BigBad: Gabbar Singh.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Jai arrives just as Basanti collapses from her dancing and Samba prepares to shoot Veeru.]]
* {{Bowdlerise}}: The initial film had [[spoiler:Thakur kill Gabbar]]. However, India's film censors ordered the makers to change the ending, and instead, an alternate ending shows [[spoiler:police arriving just before Thakur can kill Gabbar]].
* {{Bromance}}: The first song in the movie has Jai and Veeru sing about their undying love for each other and how they'll always stick together.
* DeadpanSnarker: Jai.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: After Basanti has spent almost an entire paragraph without pausing for breath referring to herself in the third person several times, and ''then'' asks why Jai and Veeru haven't had the courtesy to ask her for her name:
---> '''Jai:''' What is your name, Basanti?
* {{Determinator}}:
** Surprisingly, Basanti, given that she's essentially the comic relief. [[spoiler: Gabbar Singh captures her and Veeru and tells her that she must dance for him and as long as her feet move his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Samba won't shoot Veeru. She does this. Then some of Gabbar's men start throwing glass bottles at her, which shatter at her feet. So she continues to dance over the broken glass, until finally collapsing right in front of Veeru.]]
** Thakur is this in the flashbacks. Even after a personal tragedy and losing his arms, won't stop him from getting his revenge.
* TheDreaded: Gabbar Singh.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Thakur Baldev Singh is known mostly by his title "Thakur" rather than his actual name.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Gabbar Singh will often toy with his victims for fun, all the while maintaining a grandiose veneer of affability. For instance, he'll loudly laugh along with the rest of his gang before spontaneously executing a group of them for screwing up their mission.
* EvilLaugh: Gabbar
* GenkiGirl: Basanti
* HandicappedBadass: Thakur is made of this trope. Arguably the most physically imposing character in the film, despite the fact he has no arms. Especially played up in his final showdown with Gabbar, [[spoiler: in which he kicks Gabbar's ''ass'']]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Jai holds the bandits off while Basanti and Veeru escape to get help. He dies just as they come back with the cavalry]].
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Amitabh (playing Jai) is over six feet tall, and Jaya (playing Radha), his real life wife and his onscreen ''Sholay'' love interest, is a rather petite woman.
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler:How Thakur lost his arms. After Gabbar escapes from prison, he kills off Thakur's family, forcing Thakur to get after him. However, he ends up getting captured, and Gabbar slices off both his arms.]]
--> '''Gabbar:''' Give me those arms, Thakur.
--> '''Thakur:''' No!
--> '''Gabbar:''' Give me your arms, Thakur!
** In the final showdown, Thakur repeats the same words to Gabbar when Thakur squishes his hand with his foot.
--> '''Thakur:''' Gabbar, give me your arms.
--> '''Gabbar:''' Never!
--> '''Thakur:''' Give them to ME!
* ItsPersonal: Thakur holds a vendetta against Gabbar for [[spoiler:murdering his entire family and chopping his hands off when Thakur arrested him for his banditry several years before the film's events.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Veeru and Jai. Especially Jai.
* KnightOfCerebus: Gabbar Singh. You know when he is on screen that something bad is about to happen.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Gabbar Singh. Nearly everyone (except for Thakur, Jai and Veeru) run away and hide when he's around.
* OneWordTitle: ''Sholay'' is only one word.
* ReCut: A director's cut of the film was released on a British VHS tape in 1990, as well as on one of the DVD releases. Oddly enough, it is in fullscreen, while the theatrical cut is on widescreen. The changes are [[spoiler: the scenes where the imam's son is killed, Thakur's family is massacred, and a few other violent scenes which were previously taken out of the film by the Indian censor board, are included, as well as an alternate ending where Thakur kills Gabbar.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Veeru goes on one of these after [[spoiler: Gabbar's men kill Jai; he finishes off Gabbar's men and is about to kill Gabbar himself before Thakur stops him,so that Thakur can go on his own Roaring Rampage of Revenge.]]
* RomancingTheWidow: Jai's love interest is Thakur's widowed daughter-in-law.
* RussianRoulette: A variation of it in the YouHaveFailedMe scene where Kaalia returns with 2 other mooks.
* TheSociopath: Gabbar Singh, to a T. LackOfEmpathy? Check. [[FauxAffablyEvil Maintains a]] [[ForTheEvulz grand veneer]] [[SmugSnake of affability]] and only emitting [[ItsAllAboutMe shallow emotions]]? Check. [[AxCrazy Experiences]] [[HairTriggerTemper extreme rage]] [[MoodSwinger and is uplifted whether]] [[{{Sadist}} enemies]] [[BadBoss or mooks are hurt]]? Check. [[WouldHitAGirl Wouldn't care about killing women]] [[WouldHurtAChild and children]]? Check. Willing to cross the MoralEventHorizon? Check.
* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler: Thakur's family and Ahmed]].
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Jai]].
* ThoseTwoGuys: Jai and Veeru of course. To the point of becoming a part of Indian culture.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Gabbar Singh pulls this with three of his underlings: he takes a gun with six bullets, fires off three, and then spins the chambers and pulls the trigger at each man. Miraculously, all three escape alive. [[spoiler: Until Gabbar shoots them anyways]].
* YouKilledMyFather: Gabbar Singh murdered [[spoiler:Thakur's entire family, which is what drives the film's plot.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Part of the reason why Thakur holds an enormous grudge against Gabbar is that the dacoit [[spoiler:murdered his entire family, including his grandson.]]
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