It's dashed hard trying to pick the most solid Gabbar line. Writers Salim-Javed hit peak with Sholay, and all the finest lines went to Amjad Khan's immortal dacoit.
And his lines are all gems: Right from 'Jo dar gaya, samajho mar gaya' (He who is scared is dead) to 'Yeh haath mujhe de de, Thakur' (Give me your hand, Thakur), to 'Pachas pachas kos door, gaon mein jab bachcha raat ko rota hai toh Maa kehti hai, beta so jaa, so jaa nahin to Gabbar Singh aa jaayega' (In distant villages, when an infant cries at night, his mother tells him to sleep, sleep otherwise Gabbar Singh will appear). The lines all read like superb translations of the finest spaghetti Westerns.
But hey, it was all the character. Even Gabbar simply asking the date for Holi has become the stuff of legend.
So it was difficult to pick a top line, but, Samba's gun to our heads, I think we'd all go with the first words he uttered when he conquered the screen.
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