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Ramesh Sippy

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Ramesh Sippy, born in Karachi, Sind, British India, is an Indian film director, actor and producer in Hindi cinema. He is particularly known as the director of Sholay in 1975, often regarded as one of the most influential films ever made in India. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2013, and in 2017 he founded the Ramesh Sippy Academy of Cinema and Entertainment. Within this atlas Ramesh Sippy is credited as the director of Sholay.

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1947 1
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Sholay, Landmark Works
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1. Library of Congress Name Authority File: Sippy, Ramesh
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1947-01-23
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Ramesh Sippy is an Indian film director, actor and producer in Hindi cinema.
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Sholay (Wikipedia)
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Sholay (Hindustani: [ˈɕoːleː] , transl. 'Embers') is a 1975 Indian Hindi-language action-adventure film directed by Ramesh Sippy, produced by his father G. P. Sippy, and written by Salim-Javed.
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