New Delhi: With the 50th anniversary of Sholay coming up, Amitabh Bachchan shared the photo of a ‘preserved’ ticket from the film on his Tumblr account. “I am told that is the price of an aerated drink in Theatre Halls nowadays .. is that a fact ?? So much to say, but say not… affection and love,” wrote the actor at 3:44 am Monday.
The ticket, worth Rs 20, is for a 3:15 pm ‘special show’ on a Thursday at Excelsior, a theatre in Old Delhi. The single-screen theatre, which used to operate at Bazar Sikri Walan, shut down in 2016. The 450-seater theatre opened in 1938 and screened numerous movies, including Sholay, before closing its shutters.
Sholay was released on 15 August 1975 and became a massive hit. It ran for five uninterrupted years at Mumbai’s 1,500-seater Minerva theatre.
In the post, Bachchan also shared photos from his weekly meet outside his Mumbai mansion, ‘Jalsa’. Dressed in a multicoloured bomber jacket, the actor waved to his fans waiting outside his residence.
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Preserving possessions
Bachchan attached a long, musing post about the burden of possessions with the photos. “Excess is a cess that is desired to be seized, else it absorbs the activities of mind and body and the senses .. disposed utilities has been a leaning for some .. storing of utilities has been the learning from some .. which some to be accepted and executed is the excess that cesses the mind and and body .. and the regret in the other is the pain of not doing the ‘do’,” he wrote.
He mentioned the Sholay ticket after this paragraph, which he has preserved for all these years. “The SHOLAY ticket .. kept and preserved, just defeated whatever has been expressed a few lines above,” he added.
The actor, who regularly posts updates on both X and Tumblr, has previously also shared BTS images from the shooting of Sholay. In 2020, he had posted a photo from the Minerva theatre in Mumbai, where he attended the screening with his wife Jaya Bachchan and his parents.
(Edited by Prasanna Bachchhav)