Ramesh Sippy is an Indian film director, best known for directing the popular and critically acclaimed film Sholay.
Background
Ramesh Sippy visited the sets of the film Sazaa, his father"s first film, when he was 6 years old. He worked in both the production and direction departments in films like Johar-Mehmood in Goa and Mere Sanam, which his father was producing.
Career
Sippy"s father was producer General Рractitioner Sippy. His first film job came at age nine, when he played Achala Sachdev"s son in the 1953 film Shahenshah. He worked for 7 years as an assistant before becoming the director of Andaz, in 1971.
Although this was only a moderate success, his second film was highly successful.
Sholay still remains one of the biggest blockbuster films in Hindi film history and remains one of the favourites for Hindi film audiences globally. While Sholay was a tribute to the Westerns, his next film Shaan in 1980 was inspired by the James Bond films.
In 1982 he brought together veteran actor Dilip Kumar and the reigning superstar of the time Amitabh Bachchan in Shakti. In 1985 he directed Saagar which was considered a comeback film for Dimple Kapadia.
He directed a successful television serial titled Buniyaad which focused on the Partition of India and aired on Indian television channel Doordarshan in 1987.
The last three films he directed,,, and were box office flops and he has since not directed any film, as of 2015. His string of hits with Amitabh Bachchan made him one of the golden directors who had a special working relationship with the actor (Yash Chopra, Prakash Mehra, Manmohan Desai, and Hrishikesh Mukherjee being the other four). In 2006 he produced 9211 which was directed by Milan Luthria.
In 2008 he produced Kunaal Roy Kapur"s The President is Coming as well as the Akshay Kumar-Deepika Padukone film, Chandni Chowk to China, directed by Nikhil Advani.