Reel Friends showing Bollywood film Sholay

This Saturday, January 10th at 7 p.m., Reel Friends—Atlanta’s most innovative film collective—is screening one of the most iconic Bollywood films of all time, Sholay (1975) at the Plaza Theatre. It is the 4K restoration, called Sholay: The Final Cut, with Reel Friends hosting the ITP premiere of this new cut. 

Partnering with Videodrome Atlanta to sponsor the film, Sholay was voted the greatest Indian film ever made in a 2002 British Film Institute poll and honored as “Film of the Millenium” by BBC India in 1999. The blockbuster film directed by Ramesh Sippy premiered at the Minerva cinema hall in Mumbai in 1975 where it ran for five years without a break.

Scripted by the former writer duo Salim-Javed, the film is described as a curry western and a landmark of Indian cinema that is a mosaic of all genres: an action-thriller, revenge drama, a comedy and a tragedy set to music, song and dance composed by iconic music composer R.D. Burman.