Salman has a sholay moment!

Salman Khan, who plays a cop in Arbaaz Khan's maiden production Dabangg, will be seen mouthing Asrani's memorable lines from Sholay in one scene.

Abhinav Kashyap, who is a great fan of the seventies era of Bollywood and Salim Khan films, has incorporated Asrani's famous dialogue from Sholay, "Aadhe idhar jao, aadhe udhar jao, baaki mere peeche aao" in Dabangg, but with a twist.

The director says he used the dialogue as it suited to the situation in his film. "We haven't lifted the dialogue from Sholay but it has the same flavour. It's very situational. In Sholay, Asrani who plays a jailor tells his sepoys to follow him.

In our film there is a scene in which Salman goes for an investigation and he gets off his jeep and tells his sepoys to follow him.

He instructs them, 'Mote wale iss taraf, patle vale uss taraf, aur jo fit hain wo mere peeche.' Then he looks back and sees no one behind him and adds sarcastically, 'Kya ho gaya hai police force ko?' We have taken the dialogue a step forward and related it with the current situation. It's a comment on the fitness level of the police force today."

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