Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan revealed that ‘Sholay’s director Ramesh Sippy waited three years to shoot a single scene in the film. Released in 1975, the film was chosen as one of the 10 best Indian films by British Film Institute.
Amitabh said, "I wonder if you remember a scene in Sholay where Jaya (Bachchan) had to light a lamp in the corridor and I am sitting in the outhouse playing the mouth organ. There was particular kind of lighting that was required for the shot. Our DOP (Director of Photography) Mr Divecha was keen to take the shot at the time of sunset. You would not believe that Rameshji spent almost three years before we finally got that shot."
"Every time we would go to enact that sequence, something would not be right with the lighting. And Rameshji said 'until we get a correct light, we are not going to shoot this'. We waited for three years for one flash of a shot for the film," he added.
