Sholay

Quality:

Sholay - 1975 film directed by Ramesh Sippy. This film is the 1798^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 158^th most popular film in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Sholay” in Simple English Wikipedia has 32.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 158^th most popular in films in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1798^th most popular in films.

Since the creation of article “Sholay”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1019 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Sholay is on the 158^th place in local ranking of films in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1798^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 9 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1171 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #814 in August 2020
• Global: #5757 in March 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1159 in September 2023
• Global: #9725 in January 2014

There are 25 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Sholay		85.6027
2	Hindi (hi) शोले (1975 फ़िल्म)		82.8571
3	Indonesian (id) Sholay		78.3081
4	Simple English (simple) Sholay		32.5351
5	Arabic (ar) الشعلة (فيلم هندي)		31.1568
6	Russian (ru) Месть и закон		31.0132
7	Urdu (ur) شعلے		29.9152
8	Portuguese (pt) Sholay		27.3274
9	Armenian (hy) Վրեժ և օրենք (ֆիլմ)		26.942
10	Finnish (fi) Sholay		26.8251

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sholay		9 847 250
2	Hindi (hi) शोले (1975 फ़िल्म)		955 724
3	Persian (fa) شعله (فیلم ۱۹۷۵)		814 928
4	Russian (ru) Месть и закон		416 266
5	Arabic (ar) الشعلة (فيلم هندي)		174 192
6	German (de) Sholay		167 322
7	French (fr) Sholay		51 229
8	Simple English (simple) Sholay		34 590
9	Azerbaijani (az) Qisas və qanun (film, 1975)		27 343
10	Polish (pl) Sholay		21 472

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sholay		48 069
2	Persian (fa) شعله (فیلم ۱۹۷۵)		3 367
3	Hindi (hi) शोले (1975 फ़िल्म)		3 212
4	Russian (ru) Месть и закон		1 691
5	Italian (it) Sholay		1 237
6	Arabic (ar) الشعلة (فيلم هندي)		805
7	Simple English (simple) Sholay		458
8	German (de) Sholay		303
9	French (fr) Sholay		171
10	Azerbaijani (az) Qisas və qanun (film, 1975)		150

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sholay		589
2	German (de) Sholay		51
3	Hindi (hi) शोले (1975 फ़िल्म)		51
4	French (fr) Sholay		49
5	Persian (fa) شعله (فیلم ۱۹۷۵)		48
6	Russian (ru) Месть и закон		46
7	Italian (it) Sholay		43
8	Arabic (ar) الشعلة (فيلم هندي)		20
9	Polish (pl) Sholay		14
10	Tamil (ta) சோலே		12

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Sholay		3
2	Urdu (ur) شعلے		2
3	Hindi (hi) शोले (1975 फ़िल्म)		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Sholay		1
5	Russian (ru) Месть и закон		1
6	Arabic (ar) الشعلة (فيلم هندي)		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Qisas və qanun (film, 1975)		0
8	German (de) Sholay		0
9	English (en) Sholay		0
10	Spanish (es) Sholay		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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