The Sholay Girl

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The Sholay Girl
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Directed by Aditya Sarpotdar
Written by Faizal Akhtar
Shrabani Deodhar
Sameer Siddiqui
Produced by Shrabani Deodhar
Sai Deodhar
Shakti Anand
Starring Bidita Bag
Chandan Roy Sanyal
Aditya Lakhia
Prince Rodde
Production
company
Purple Morning Movies
Distributed by ZEE5
Release date
  • 8 March 2019 (2019-03-08)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

The Sholay Girl is a 2019 Hindi-language biographical period drama film directed by Aditya Sarpotdar and produced by Shrabani Deodhar, Sai Deodhar and Shakti Anand. [1] Written by Faizal Akhtar and Shrabani Deodhar, the film is based on India's first stuntwoman, Reshma Pathan. [2] [3] Bidita Bag portrays Pathan's role while Chandan Roy Sanyal, Prince Rodde and Aditya Lakhia appear in supporting roles. [4]

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The title refers to Sholay , in which Pathan worked as a stunt double for Hema Malini. [5] To prepare for the role, Bag took training in martial arts. [6] She also said that she watched the tonga scene from Sholay "at least a 100 times to master the role." [7] The official trailer was released on 3 March 2019 and the film was released on 8 March, the International Women's Day on the online streaming platform ZEE5. [8] [9] [10]

Plot

Cast

Reception

Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in called it "an undeniably uplifting biopic that pays tribute to Reshma’s daring and can-do spirit". But she felt that the film "softens the rough edges and underplays the exploitative conditions under which she often worked." [11] Alcheesh Kushwaha of NDTV praised Bag's performance. He then wrote: "In the one hour 25-minute film, with the colloquy, trickle and resonance of Reshma, the whole story of adventurer and Himmatwali Stantwoman explains in the sequels." [12] Arushi Jain of The Indian Express called the film a "compelling watch" and praised Bag's acting calling her "effortless in her spot on performance as Reshma." [13]

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