Thakur appears and reminds Veeru of the vow to hand over Gabbar alive. Enraged, Veeru attacks Gabbar's den and kills his remaining men where he catches Gabbar and nearly beats him to death. Veeru returns, and Jai dies, leaving Radha and Veeru devastated. Jai sacrifices himself by using his last bullet to ignite dynamite sticks on a bridge from close range, killing Gabbar's men. Unaware that Jai was wounded in the gunfight, Veeru is forced to leave for more ammunition and also to drop Basanti at a safe place. Shooting from behind a rock, Jai and Veeru nearly run out of ammunition. Jai arrives and attacks the hideout, where the trio are able to flee Gabbar's hideout with dacoits in pursuit.
Gabbar retaliates by having his men capture Veeru and Basanti. The villagers refuse and instead get the duo to kill few of Gabbar's henchmen. After learning the duo's heroics, Gabbar kills the local imam Rahim Chacha's son Ahmed and forces the villagers to make Jai and Veeru surrender to him. Realizing this, Jai and Veeru take an oath that they will capture Gabbar alive. Thakur reveals that few years ago, Gabbar had killed his family members (except Radha), and had both his arms cut off, where he concealed the dismemberment by always wearing a shawl, which is the sole reason why he could not use the gun. The duo are upset at Thakur's inaction (when Jai and Veeru were cornered, Thakur had a gun within his reach, but doesn't help them) and consider calling off the mission.
During the festival of Holi, Gabbar's gang attacks the villagers where they corner Jai and Veeru, but the duo manage to attack and chase them away from the village. The two thwarts Gabbar's dacoits, who came to extort money. Jai meets Thakur's widowed daughter-in-law Radha and falls for her, who later accepts his feelings. After reaching Ramgarh, Veeru falls for Basanti, a feisty talkative horse-cart driver. The duo leave for Thakur's village in Ramgarh, where Gabbar is residing and terrorizing the villagers. Jai and Veeru are small-time crooks who are released from prison, where they are recruited by a former Inspector Thakur Baldev Singh to capture a notorious dacoit named Gabbar Singh wanted for ₹50,000, as the duo had saved Thakur from a train robbery which makes Thakur to recruit them for the mission with an additional ₹20,000 reward. In January 2014, Sholay was re-released to theatres in the 3D format. The film's dialogues and certain characters became extremely popular, contributing to numerous cultural memes and becoming part of India's daily vernacular. Burman, and the dialogues (released separately), set new sales records. The combined sales of the original soundtrack, scored by R. Scholars have noted several themes in the film, such as glorification of violence, conformation to feudal ethos, debate between social order and mobilised usurpers, homosocial bonding, and the film's role as a national allegory. Sholay is also a defining example of the masala film, which mixes several genres in one work. The film is a Dacoit Western (sometimes called a " Curry Western"), combining the conventions of Indian dacoit films with that of Spaghetti Westerns along with elements of Samurai cinema. By numerous accounts, Sholay remains one of the highest-grossing Indian films of all time, adjusted for inflation. It was the highest-grossing Indian film ever at the time, and was the highest-grossing film in India up until Hum Aapke Hain Koun.! (1994). The film was also an overseas success in the Soviet Union. It broke records for continuous showings in many theatres across India, and ran for more than five years at Mumbai's Minerva theatre. When first released, Sholay received negative critical reviews and a tepid commercial response, but favourable word-of-mouth publicity helped it to become a box office success. In 1990, the original director's cut of 204 minutes became available on home media. After the Central Board of Film Certification mandated the removal of several violent scenes, Sholay was released with a length of 198 minutes. The film was shot in the rocky terrain of Ramanagara, in the southern state of Karnataka, over a span of two and a half years. In 2005, the judges of the 50th Filmfare Awards named it the Best Film of 50 Years. It was ranked first in the British Film Institute's 2002 poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time. Sholay is considered a classic and one of the best Indian films. Hema Malini and Jaya Bhaduri also star, as Veeru and Jai's love interests, Basanti and Radha, respectively. The film is about two criminals, Veeru ( Dharmendra) and Jai ( Amitabh Bachchan), hired by a retired police officer ( Sanjeev Kumar) to capture the ruthless dacoit Gabbar Singh ( Amjad Khan). Embers) is a 1975 Indian Hindi-language action-adventure film written by Salim–Javed, directed by Ramesh Sippy, and produced by his father G.