Namaskar and welcome to Interval Bell. I am Siddharth Venkataraman, I spent eight years writing about Hindi films in Mumbai, and this is a show where we go back to one landmark film at a time and find out how it was made and how it was watched. There was only ever one place to start. Sholay, August 1975. The reviews were lukewarm, the first week was quiet, and the producers seriously discussed reshooting the ending. Then something happened that nobody in the industry had seen before. People came back. They came back for the dialogues, which they knew by heart from cassettes, and they came back to Minerva cinema for five straight years. Today we talk to the people who ran that theatre, and we hear the ending the censors would not allow. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts. The bell is ringing.