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The heroine of Sholay, Basanti, had many thrilling and spine-chilling scenes on her tonga. However, very few people know that the dangerous and exciting scenes, which looked very real, were not performed by Hema Malini herself but by her body double, Reshma Pathan. Hema Malini was only filmed in close-up shots. In other words, behind the scenes, the real Basanti was Reshma. This video shares many interesting and unheard stories about Reshma’s role in Sholay.

Reshma Pathan is an Indian actress and the first stuntwoman of the Indian film industry. She is also known as the Sholay Girl, as she played Hema Malini’s stunt double in Sholay. The film, The Sholay Girl, is a biopic about her life. She has performed thousands of dangerous stunts in almost 400 films.

Reshma began working as a stunt double when she was 14 when the Fight Director S. Azim offered her to join the film industry. She began her career by playing Laxmi Chaya’s double in the film Ek Khiladi Bawan Patte (1972). Reshma has played the stunt double for Waheeda Rehman, Rekha, Hema Malini, Sridevi, Dimple Kapadia, and Meenakshi Sheshadri, among Bollywood actress. She has also done stunts in many Bhojpuri and South Indian films and bilingual films like Gandhi, Mangal Pandey and The Warrior. She was the stunt woman for almost all film actresses through the 1970s and 80s in Hindi film industry.
Reshma took to doing stunts in films in order to financially support her family. Fight Director S. Azim offered her to join the film industry. “I was a tomboy. Fight director S. Azim uncle had seen my antics in the area. Area ki behen banne ka bahut shauk tha. He suggested I do stunts,” she recalls. However, her father was against her performing stunts. He believed that the huge risk involved while performing a stunt could not be covered by any given amount of money. Eventually, she managed to convince her family.
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