Rekha Ganeshan - Blessed After 33 Years

Mr. Amitabh Bachchan Greeting Rekha in Screen Awards Night (Image: Films of India)

Indian film industry is called as "Bollywood" in the world of entertainment in the world and it is a biggest entertainment industry in the world. Amitabh Bachchan is a biggest star of the industry who engaged with the industry since more than 45 years. Relations and affairs is a common thing in entertainment industry. Many relations begins with a very much hope but maximum of them dies with a deep silent. No story or a single line comes out from the both ends for the end of the relations. Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha Ganeshan's story is one of them. Mr. Bachchan and Rekha worked as a co-star in many movies but during the veteran director Shri Yash Chopra's movie Silsila became a landmark of their love story. They both never accept or decline about their relationship but everyone was well aware for the said relations. As gossip came in the media they started avoiding came together in public domain. The movie Silsila was released in 1981 and the hidden story was also started in the same year. Mr. Bachchan or Rekha were never replying for the answers regarding each other. It passed 33 years but still the story was there. Many time they seen at the same place like in movie premiers or award functions but succeeded to keep distance from each other and also from the cameras of media. It is observed that whenever Mr. Bachchan or Rekha came on the stage for getting award or to perform, cameras getting face emotions of both.

            It was a night of 14^Th Januar, 2014 when 20^Th Screen Awards function organized in Mumbai. B Town celebrities were started arriving to attend the functions with hope of getting awards too. It was the first award function of year 2014 and the great start or you can say big news from the premises of the Screen Award. Bachchan family is one of the reputed families in Bollywood. They are very sincere and familiar in public life. Many guests already arrived for the function and Rekha was one of them. After few minutes Mr. Bachchan came with his young and dynamic son Abhishek, who is also a one of the superstar in new generation of Bollywood and his wife Jaya Bachchan, who is also a one of the veteran actress of Bollywood. As per allotment of seats, there was a seat of Rekha before Bachchans. Bachchans seen Rekha was sitting there and suddenly the whole family turns towards Rekha. First Mr. Bachchan greeted her and then the same followed by Abhishek and Jaya.

Jaya Bachchan Greeting Rekha at Screen Award Night (Image: Sify Movies)            

The love story of Amitabh and Rekha was about seemed died but after passing 33 years the same was became headline. In 1981 there was only limited print media, who covered the story of post Silsila but after three decades there is a huge media covered the story. The screen award night came with big news for one of the longest run love gossip relation in bollywood. Hope the industry will soon watch a movie of Mr. Bachchan with Rekha.

Sholay History Before Sholay 3D

Sholay – A name stands with a new definition of success. Today on 3^Rd January 2014 the 3D version of Sholay is in theaters. Let's remember again interesting facts of unforgettable scenes and dialogues. The movie Sholay was released on 15^Th August 1975. The movie staring Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Jaya Bhaduri (Bachchan), Hema Malini, Amjad Khan, Sanjeev Kumar, produced by G. P. Sippy and directed by Ramesh Sippy. Most of readers might have seen the movie much time but now here some facts are presented against you and for that I can say, "You might not aware!!!" So let's see what you know and what not.

The movie launched in Oct-1973 and released on 15-Aug.-1975, means the shoot took two and half year for reaching to the theaters. That time the budget of movie was only three crores. Sholay was shoot the same scene in two sets of negatives, one in 70MM and second was of 35MM and due to this every scene shoot for two times. Sholay was the first film in bollywood which was shown more than 25 weeks in more than 1000 theaters in India. It was India's first 70MM movie with stereophonic sound.

There are too many changes happened before release of Sholay, like selection of directors and actors. Writers of Sholay, Javed Akhtar and Salim Khan first insisted that time successful director Manmohan Desai but he decline as he was busy with his another project. Characters of the movie were mostly relevant to the writers or that time society. Jai and Veeru were Salim Khan's college friends and Thakur Baldev Singh is a name of his Father in Law. Villain name came from the original dacoit in 1950's in Gwalior area. He was very cruel as per record and Soorma was a Forest officer in Madhya Pradesh. Shatrughan Sinha was considered for character of Jai initially but finally it was played by Amitabh Bachchan. Dharmendra dreamed to play the character of Thakur but when he read full script than decided to play Veeru as Basanti was finally coming to Veeru. Danny was finalized for Gabbar Singh but due to his busyness the character came to Amjad Khan. Actually Amjad Khan was sujjested by Javed Akhtar and he made history. Yes, we know Gabbar Singh a great villain of bollywood era but it is also fact that there are only nine scenes in entire movie of the character and Mac Mohan played Sambha character has only one line dialogue in movie still that is remembered.

One of the interesting facts of delay in shooting is, Jaya was pregnant with Sweta as Amitabh and Jaya married only before four months of the movie begun. Dharmendra and Hema Malini married after five years of release of Sholay. The movie filmed mostly in Ramanagara town, 50 Kms away from Bangalore. It became a tourist place after Sholay declared hit.

There are more to say like, the train robbery was shot on Mumbai-Pune track near Panvel, The bullets were used were original in several scenes, but in mood of "Will Say Later!!!"

Let's remember some great dialogues of the movie which are still usually heard in society.

"Kitney aadmi they"

"Bahoot yaraana lagta hai"

"In kutto ke samne mat nachna Basanti"

"Tumhara Naam Kya hai Basanti"

"Bhaag Dhanno aaj teri Basanti ki ijjat ka sawal hai"

"Soja varna Gabbar aa jayega"

"Ye haath Muje de de Thakur"

"Itna sannaata kyu hai bhai"

One more achievement of the movie is Sholay has been studied by film scholars from every angle.

Original Poster of Sholay