4: S06E4: Sholay (1975) - Sexy, Angry Amitabh Bachchan

Joining us today is our friend, Yamini. And we are talking about Sholay. Sholay (lit. Embers) is a 1975 Indian action-adventure film written by Salim-Javed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salim-Javed) , directed by Ramesh Sippy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesh_Sippy) , and produced by his father G. P. Sippy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._P._Sippy) . The film is about two criminals, Veeru and Jai (played by Dharmendra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmendra) and Amitabh Bachchan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan) respectively), hired by a retired police officer (Sanjeev Kumar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjeev_Kumar) ) to capture the ruthless dacoit, Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amjad_Khan_(actor)) ). (Source:Wikipedia). You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on this player below.

Podcast Episode Summary:

We talk about director Ramesh Sippy's perfectionism

We give a special shout out to all the scenes that involve Amitabh and Jaya

We talk about Gabbar Singh

Quotables:

As for the songs, there is nothing home to write about - Yamini

I loved ALL the songs - Tanvi 

That scene could easily be on my top 10 best scenes ever - Flo