46 Years of Sholay: Abhishek Bachchan, Bobby Deol want to play Veeru and Basanti’s sons Dharmendra

Ramesh Sippy’s cult classic Sholay, which took Indian cinema to new heights, completed 46 years on Monday, 16 August. The iconic film has inspired many filmmakers and its dialogues, scenes, songs and characters are still fresh in the minds of people. decades after its release. the movie starred Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra as the iconic duo Jai and Veeru, Hema Malini as Basanti, Veeru’s girlfriend, and Amjad Khan, Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bachchan, AK Hangal, Jagdeep, Asrani, Mac Mohan, Viju Khote and Iftekhar in lead roles. are in.

An interesting thing about the film is that Dharmendra once said that he has thought of a sequel to the film, and that he has a very interesting set of actors to play the next generation of characters. Journalist and writer Roshmila Bhattacharya in her book Matinee Men recounts this anecdote and wrote that Dharmendra once told her that he had thought of a premise for a sequel to Sholay. The film ended with Gabbar Singh’s arrest and Jai’s untimely death, after which Veeru left the village with Basanti. Dharmendra’s idea for the sequel started right after that and according to him, Veeru and Basanti get married and settle down elsewhere. They have two sons who are raised by Radha (Jaya Bachchan), who fell in love with Jai in the film.