Sholay

Sholay is a 1975 Indian Hindi - language film directed by Ramesh Sippy. It is an action - adventure film starring Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini and Jaya Bhaduri. A retired police officer, Thakur Baldev Singh get the two convicts. The two of them are Jaidev and Veeru, to capture Gabbar Singh, a bandit chief who has been terrorizing the small village of Ramgarh. Gabbar had killed Thakur's entire family leaving him and his daughter-in-law and even had his arms cut off. Unable to take the revenge himself, Thakur Baldev Singh recruits the two guys - Veeru and Jaidev, both small time crooks. Both of them agree to capture Gabbar Singh alive and hand him over to Baldev Singh. However, things do not go as planned. Gabbar is not as easy to capture as they thought and he is a dangerous man. Meanwhile, the two also fall in love. Veeru falls for the local horse carriage driver Basanti; and Jai starts to have romantic feelings for Baldev Singh's widowed daughter-in-law, Radha. To make the matters worse, Gabbar has sworn to kill both the guys, Jai and Veeru, and holds Basanti as a hostage, to lure them to him. But Jaidev and Veeru was so clever that no bandit could outwit the two.