Earlier the success of films was measured by the metrics of silver and golden jubilee or footfall. But today films are called hit or flop according to the box office earnings. The ticket prices and the number of shows are increased so that the film can earn as much as possible. But there was one film which broke the record of Mughal-e-Azam and spent 286 weeks in the theatre. Also if you hear the price of the ticket you will not believe that such a thing used to happen. Let us tell you everything about it. Ramesh Sippys directed film Sholay which was full of Jai-Veeru jodi Basantis tanga Thakurs hands and Babbars fear is about to complete 50 years. The screenplay of this film which was released in theatres on 15th August 1975 was written by Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar together and is still very much liked. In this movie there was also an item song by Salman Khans stepmother Helen which was named- Mehbooba Mehbooba. This film badly defeated K. Asifs film Mughal-e-Azam which ran in theatres for 3 years and ruled the theatres for five years. Most tickets sold for the movie People still hum the dialogues and songs of the film Sholay. Various types of memes have also been made in this film. This movie which ran in theatres for 5 years was made in Rs 3 crore. And it sold 25 crore tickets which is much more than the films like RRR and Jawaan that joined the 1000 crore club. This movie had veteran actors like Amitabh Bachchan Dharmendra Sanjeev Kumar Amjad Khan Hema Malini and Jaya Bachchan who succeeded in attracting the audience. Talking about the tickets of Sholay which was running non-stop from 1975 to 1980 at Mumbais Minerva theatre its price was just Rs 1.50 to Rs 2.00. It also went viral last day. The price for the middle row was Rs 2.50 and for the balcony it was Rs 3. Which was very cheap. At the same time the writers of the film Salim-Javed were given Rs 10000 as a signing amount which was a huge amount at that time. There was a fight for the roles of Thakur and Gabbar Sanjeev Kumar had to play the role of Babbar. For this he had blackened his teeth and even offered to shave his head. Apart from these Dharmendra wanted to play the role of Thakur but Ramesh Sippy cleverly gave him the role of Veeru. It is said that Dilip Kumar was to be chosen for the role of Thakur Jain Denzongpa for the role of Gabbar and Shatrughan Sinha for the role of Jai. But later things changed and this did not happen.