Unseen Pic of the Day: When Danny Denzongpa posed with star-studded 'Sholay' cast

Veteran actor Danny Denzongpa is often hailed for his glorious contributions to Indian film industry. He has been part of films like Baby, Manikarnika, Bioscopewala, Hum, Krantiveer, Agneepath, and many more. Recently, an unseen picture of actor has been going viral on social media. 

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Danny Denzongpa poses with Sholay star cast

picture has Danny posing with star cast of movie Sholay. Danny can be seen posing alongside director of movie, Ramesh Sippy, Amitabh Bachchan who played Jai, Dharmendra who played Veeru and late Sanjeev Kumar who played Thakur in film. y are all smiles for camera while donning a formal attire. y are flanked by leading ladies of movie, Hema Malini who played Basanti and Jaya Bachchan who played Radha in film.  divas make way for a pretty sight in a traditional saree attire.

For unversed, Danny, who was famous for portraying antagonistic roles was initially first choice to play main baddie in film, Gabbar Singh. screenwriter of film Javed Akhtar was skeptical of Amjad Khan for role as writer thought that actor's voice would t suit character. However, ultimately Danny had to opt-out of Sholay as he was busy shooting for movie Dharmatma in Afghanistan. role went on to be portrayed by Amjad making his character Gabbar Singh one of most iconic villains in history of Indian cinema. Take a look at unseen picture of Danny with star cast of Sholay. 

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About Sholay

Talking about movie, Sholay is one of most popular action-adventure films and it was written by Salim-Javed, directed by Ramesh Sippy, and produced by his far GP Sippy. film revolved around story of Veeru and Jay who go on to be hired by local police to capture torious Gabbar Singh.

This movie was placed in "Top 10 Indian Films of all time" ranking by British Film Institute in year 2002. It was also given Best Film of 50 Years award by panelists of 50th Filmfare Awards. makers had to cut a number of violent scenes from film and it was initially released with a length of 198 minutes. 

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