The London Film Festival is set to celebrate 50 years of the Bollywood classic ''Sholay'', featuring Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra, with a special screening of a restored version of the director's cut, complete with the original ending and some deleted scenes.

The British Film Institute's (BFI) annual festival of films from across the globe, which opens next week, has other Indian themes too, including Lucknow-born Ahmed Alauddin Jamal's ''Hotel London'' and Anuparna Roy's debut ''Songs of Forgotten Trees'' — in the running for the First Feature Competition.

The Ramesh Sippy-directed film that released on August 15, 1975 and gave film lovers characters like Jai-Veeru (Amitabh Bachchan-Dharmendra), Thakur (Sanjeev Kumar), Gabbar (Amjad Khan), Basanti (Hema Malini), Radha (Jaya Bachchan)

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