An AI artist has reimagined the classic Bollywood movie Sholay, featuring Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Amjad Khan and Jaya Bachchan in lead roles, as a Hollywood film. A Reddit page r/Bollywood memes by Shady Karan has shared the AI-generated version of the film, Sholay
Sholay’s iconic character Jai played by Amitabh Bachchan has been reimagined in Hollywood. In this AI-generated video, Robert Di Niro can be seen playing Jai’s role
From taking a ride in a rickshaw to sporting a similar hairstyle, Al Pacino resembles the character of Veeru, originally played by Dharmendra in Ramesh Sippy’s film Sholay
Hema Malini’s “Chal Dhanoo, aaj teri Basant ki izzat ka sawaal hai” is an iconic Bollywood dialogue from Sholay. But imagine the same being said by Eat, Pray, Love actress Julia Roberts. In this AI-generated video, one can see Julia Roberts playing the role of Basanti
Anthony Hopkins has been reimagined as the OG villain from Sholay, Gabbar Singh. Anthony Hopkins can be seen wearing a green shirt, silver tabeez and a bullet bandolier similar to Gabbar Singh in this AI-generated video. In the original film, Amjad Khan played this role
Thakur Baldev Singh, a character from Sholay originally played by Sanjeev Kumar has now been reimagined with Kevin Spacey. The scene from Sholay, where Thakur is all set to crush Gabbar with his foot has also been re-created using AI tools
The AI-generated movie based on Sholay starts with some real glimpses of the movie featuring Amitabh Bachchan as Jai winking at Dharmendra’s Veeru as he wears a garland around his neck and gives a thumbs up
The AI movie’s opening shot features Gabbar Singh, played by Amjad Khan, walking across his territory as he overlooks the entire city of Ramgarh, which was riddled with the rule of dacoits
Sholay will always be remembered as a classic Bollywood film and it was nominated under several categories for a whopping 9 Filmfare Awards. MS Shinde was awarded the Best Editing award