Salim-Javed is a foundational pillar which defined the stylish 70s as we know it. If are a fan of the duo, you would have already known most of the trivia and background stories covered in the 3-espisode mini series. What stood out for me are the following bits:
1) Yeaterday year footage its makers managed to bring back on screen and description of Salim-Javed's individual struggles before their legendary association happened.
2) The opening credit score capturing the funky 70s music and animation
3) screen time allocated to Sholay & Deewaar, given a total of 3 episodes
What I missed out on:
1) More details on some of their less discussed work. This should have been an 8-episode series with dedicated time given to Kaala Patthar, Don, Shaan, Shakti, and Mr. India.
2) More of Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan and Dharmendra footage because that's gold snippets.
3) An episode just on their wild life and parties after they made it big. That aspect was just given a lip service by calling them 'brats'
3) How the other big directors of the time (Prakash Mehra and M Desai) felt about their scripts and why they didn't work more together?
4) How they contributed to making the background music impacting the scenes written by them on camera.
There is much more I wanted to see but hopefully they will release it in parts over next season.
