Sholay has always been a bundle of paradoxes. It is an Indian Western, and the most famous one at that. It has two male leads crooning songs together and caressing each other with supreme adoration in what is the most celebrated and enduring instance of "homosocial" bonding in a nation which is as comfortable with anything homosexual as British people from the early 18th century. It shows a deadly dacoit being brought to his knees by an armless man in spite of the ever popular adage "kanoon ke haath bahut lambe hote hain" (see what we did there?)