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Actress Hema upset over no subtitles for Sholay |
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Thursday, 02 August 2007 |
 The scarcity of proper prints to honour Bollywood stars at international retrospectives has come to light once again. Ramesh Sippy’s historic potboiler Sholay almost couldn’t make it to the retrospective of Hema Malini’s films at the Bangkok International Film Festival.
Remembering the unfortunate incident, Hema said, "They screened Sholay on a DVD and without subtitles. Nobody could get a hand on the print. So they just blew up the DVD print and projected it on the screen. These days, every Hindi film is immediately subtitled. I guess it wasn’t so easy back then. We need to do something about this right away."
In 2005, Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan had to abandon the idea of taking Sholay for a retrospective to the Lincoln Centre in New York. He, however, had refused to allow the film to be screened on a DVD.
It is generally felt that the authorities need to be more alert over the ready availability of films for such retrospectives.
"It was very difficult to locate the prints of my films. Now that the Hindi film industry is becoming popular all over the world, we need to have a bank of every artiste’s films ready for international events. The authorities should take every artiste into confidence and select 10 of his or her best films," Hema said.
The 10-day film festival started on July 19 in Bangkok. The Thai papers are crammed with complimentary reports on Hema’s sojourn. "The reports were very flattering. All part of my past glory," she laughed and added, "a retrospective means I’m part of the past, right?" |
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