Overview

• Film Heritage Foundation and Sippy Films completed a three-year 4K restoration, recovering six minutes of footage cut under Emergency-era censorship and reinstating the director’s original climax.
• The uncut version of Sholay had its world premiere on June 27 at Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna to mark the film’s 50th anniversary.
• A gala North American premiere is scheduled for September 6 at Toronto’s 1,800-seat Roy Thomson Hall during the 50th Toronto International Film Festival.
• Restoration specialists sourced interpositives, color reversal intermediates and rare prints from archives in Mumbai, London and Bologna to achieve a faithful 4K transfer.
• No official announcement has been made for a theatrical re-release in India, leaving audiences at home awaiting confirmation.