Day 1 3 October 1973
A shoot that ran over · India · 1975
The crew cut a road and built a whole village beside Ramadevara Betta. The shoot lasted nearly two and a half years. Keep the clock running to see which scenes would not wrap.
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Wikipedia lists the shoot’s biggest overruns. Run the clock and watch each scene fill and wrap. The slider stops at eight weeks.
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The five-minute song · 21 days · still shooting
Wikipedia’s list of schedule overruns includes a five-minute song sequence that took 21 days, but does not say where it was shot.
The source gives no place for this scene. It lists it with the shoot at Ramanagara, whose rocks Karnataka Tourism says the film was shot on, so it sits under that town here.
Ramanagara is a town on the Bengaluru to Mysuru road. Its rocks are climbed for sport; go with a local guide or club.
Ramanagara district
The official page for the hill: the summit temple, the vulture sanctuary and when to go. There is an entry fee; its amount is not listed there. Pictured: Ramadevara Betta, 2019.
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Switch between what the crew made beside the hill and what stands there now.
Wikipedia says the crew built an entire township at Ramanagara, designed by art director Ram Yedekar.
DT Next says the site was dense forest before it was turned into a village for the film.
Wikipedia says the crew built a road from the Bangalore highway to the location.
DT Next quotes a man who was 15 during the shoot; his parents worked on the sets.
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Ramadevara Betta is the one pinned place in Karnataka and is open as a sanctuary. The township is gone and the shoot road is now a forest road. Sippy Nagar is a name rather than a sight. The Panvel pin marks the station only, because no page names the exact stretch of line.
2 pinned places you can visit, in Karnataka and Maharashtra, plus six more named without a pin.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A granite hill with a trail and a summit temple, open as a forest sanctuary. Go early and avoid the monsoon; there is an entry fee.
Ramanagara, Karnataka · Ramadevara Betta, about 50 km from Bengaluru, Ramanagara district, Karnataka
Karnataka Tourism says the film was shot on this hill, which has drawn tourists since the 1970s.
A granite hill with a trail and a summit temple, open as a forest sanctuary. Go early and avoid the monsoon; there is an entry fee.
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A resort near Bidadi, on the way to Ramanagara.
Bidadi, near Ramanagara
A resort with an 18-hole golf course, listed as being near Bidadi on the Bangalore–Mysore highway, on the way to Ramanagara. Pictured: the modern Bengaluru to Mysuru road near Ramanagara, 2026.
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The official page for the hill, and day trips from Bengaluru.
Ramanagara district
The official page for the hill: the summit temple, the vulture sanctuary and when to go. There is an entry fee; its amount is not listed there. Pictured: Ramadevara Betta, 2019.
Read the pageBengaluru and Ramanagara
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Ramadevara Betta, about 50 km from Bengaluru, Ramanagara district, Karnataka
Filming starts on 3 October 1973, with Ramanagara’s rocky ground as the main location.
The granite hill plays both the village of Ramgarh and Gabbar Singh’s lair.
Foothills of Ramadevara Betta, Ramanagara district
A township is built at Ramanagara, on ground that had been dense forest.
The forest department demolishes the sets, including Gabbar’s den and Thakur’s haveli.
Between the Bangalore–Mysore highway and the Ramadevara Betta sets
A road is cut from the Bangalore highway to the sets; the forest department later tars it.
Trail up Ramadevara Betta, Ramanagara district
Guided Sholay Trails climb the hill, and the summit shows the film’s locations.
Ramadevara Betta Vulture Sanctuary, Ramanagara district
A 2017 plan for a Sholay village theme park is opposed by environmentalists and the sanctuary stays.
Ramanagara, about 50 km from Bengaluru
Karnataka Tourism says the film was shot on Ramanagara’s picturesque rocks.
A five-minute song sequence takes 21 days; the source does not say where.
Two scenes of lamp-lighting take 20 days because of lighting problems; the source gives no place.
A scene between Gabbar and an imam’s son takes 19 days; the source gives no place.
Ramanagara area, Karnataka
A hamlet is renamed after the director, Ramesh Sippy.
The Bombay to Poona railway near Panvel, Maharashtra
The train robbery takes more than seven weeks on the Bombay–Poona line near Panvel.
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