It is well known to every movie lover that Sholay initially received negative critic reviews and also had a bad commercial response. However, later it emerged as a box office success breaking several records. Even after all these years, the movie has clinched the first spot in the list of ‘Top 10 Indian Films” of all time in the British Film Institute’s 2002 poll.
Source: Not Baahubali, this Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra starrer was one of the first pan-India movies