Don’t believe that cinema is dead, it’s alive and thriving :Ramesh Sippy

Ramesh Sippy recalled, “ Sholay started as a two-line idea, maybe four, about an army officer and two mischievous ex-soldiers, later changed to police officers because army permissions would have slowed filming. ” He praised Salim-Javed, saying, “I told Javed sahib only about Gabbar - impulsive, heady, smiling one moment and exploding the next. From his first narration, I knew he’d captured exactly what I wanted. That scene in the ninth reel gave us the immortal line, ‘ Kitne aadmi the?’ ” On unseen technical challenges, Sippy explained, “The Thakur family massacre sequence took 23 days because weather kept changing; clouds appeared after days of perfect sunlight. The lamp-lighting scene with Amitabh and Jaya took 15–20 nights - we rehearsed in the afternoon and shot at dusk, often c