 There has recently been a directors cut of Sholay shown on the asian u.k.   satellite channel Zee TV, this has not been released up till now on  cinemas. It contains the original ending director Ramesh Sippy intended that  shows GabarSingh being killed at the hands of Thakur, instead of just being  arrested by police. The film ran into problems with Indian Censors who  claimed their rules about people taking the law into their own hands and not  being punished for it was not permitted and may corrupt naive viewers; for  this reason the ending of the film had to be re