The Ramesh Sippy directorial is an action adventure Bollywood movie revolving around two petty thieves hired by a police officer to exact revenge on a ruthless bandit.
Sharing a few stills from the movie's sets on Twitter, Amitabh captioned them: "SHOLAY 40 years!"
He also tweeted an image of all time hit dialogues from the film.
"SHOLAY 40 years!! a lifetime gone by but still reverberating within all film goers!
The cult film also stars Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Amjad Khan and Sanjeev Kumar.
