This movie connects Salman Khan & Abhishek Bachchan

Bollywood’s iconic film Sholay will soon be completing 40 years. Bollywood actors Salman Khan and Abhishek Bachchan have a special connect with the film. As Salman’s father Salim Khan wrote the script with Javed Akhtar and Abhishek’s father Amitabh Bachchan starred in it with Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Jaya Bachchan and Amjad Khan as the dreaded Gabbar Singh with Sanjeev Kumar as Thakur.

Salman Khan recollected his earliest memories of the movie when he attended the premiere of the film in his school uniform, on the other hand Abhishek Bachchan was not even born when the movie released, but it played an integral part in his childhood as he grew up listening to tales about the film.

Salman Khan said, “I attended the premiere with brother Arbaaz in ‘Minerva’ theatre. I remember we went to see the premiere of ‘Sholay’. Arbaaz and me were in Scindia school, so we were dressed in our school blazers when our father took us there, the film surprisingly for two weeks was a huge disaster. Apparently, they went back to shoot the climax to make Bachchan saab relive in the movie but after two weeks, it just took it to the next level.”

Abhishek too said, “The thing I love about ‘Sholay’ is even if you see it today, it’s very contemporary. A lot of films age, I feel ‘Sholay’ is ageless. It is as close to what we can get to a perfect masala potboiler that we have. Even if you see it today, its very believable. It’s an iconic film. My entire childhood has been full of hearing stories of Salim-Javed uncle, Ramesh uncle, my parents and those were such wonderful stories. I believe the film was shot over three years. There were great anecdotes.”

Well there is one thing that we all agree with Salman Khan and Abhishek Bachchan on, that Sholay is truly an iconic film.