Ramesh Sippy

As one of India’s best known industries, you’d think the one story that’s remained constant through the ups and downs of the Indian growth story is Bollywood -- from black and white to technicolour.

You’d be wrong. Ask Ramesh Sippy -- as the director of one of the biggest blockbusters in Bollywood history he should know.

For the veteran Bollywood producer-director, who made his super-hit Sholay in 1975, the impact of economic liberalization on Indian cinema has resulted in the loss of the common man as its audience, owing to steep ticket prices as cinemas transitioned from rickety single-screen halls to plush multiplex ‘theatres’. #Liberalisation #Daysofourlives #reforms #Bollywood #movies, Sholay