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I’ve been watching Bollywood movies for a few years now. For the most part I’ve focused on recent films, but a certain classic from the 70s has come up in conversation on a routine basis: Sholay.<\/p>\n

Wildly popular and starring the great Amitabh Bachchan it is often credited as being the first Bollywood western. It takes place in a remote community, where an ex-police officer hires a pair of charismatic train robbers to kill bandit. <\/p>\n

This is an epic movie, filled with desperate human struggle and grand landscapes. <\/p>\n

Aside from the location and the language it is a near perfect imitation of the American western. It has so incorporated the tropes of a Western that it even has a horse and buggy chase.
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\nHere the buggy startles a herd of goats.
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\nAnd here the buggy continues to flee, despite losing a wheel, which is straight out of a Roy Rogers flick.
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And then we go straight into the scene with the Hitler impersonator.
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\nOkay, maybe that’s not something you’ll find in your average western, but this next shot is a direct reference to Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, and that earns a little bit of sympathy.
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