Jai, Veeru, Gabbar: 'Sholay'-Inspired Barbs Spice Up Madhya Pradesh Poll Campaign
NDTV
Elections to the 230-member Madhya Pradesh assembly will be held in a single phase on November 17.
Popular characters from the 1975 Hindi blockbuster 'Sholay' have entered the political discourse ahead of the November 17 Madhya Pradesh assembly elections.
The opposition Congress and the ruling BJP are accusing each other of looting the state drawing parallels with the film's characters, who were associated with crime in some way or the other.
The Congress said the "bonhomie" between its state president Kamal Nath and senior leader Digvijaya Singh was akin to the bond shared by 'Jai' and 'Veeru', played by Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra respectively, in the film, while Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said Jai and Veeru were fighting over the distribution of "plundered booty".
