 In the small village of Ramgarh , the retired policeman Thakur Baldev Singh ( Sanjeev Kumar ) summons a pair of small @-@ time thieves that he had once arrested . Thakur feels that the duo — Veeru ( Dharmendra ) and Jai ( Amitabh Bachchan ) — would be ideal to help him capture Gabbar Singh ( Amjad Khan ) , a dacoit wanted by the authorities for a ₹ 50 @,@ 000 reward . Thakur tells them to surrender Gabbar to him , alive , for an additional ₹ 20 @,@ 000 reward . 
 In the small village of Ramgarh , the retired policeman Thakur Baldev Singh ( Sanjeev Kumar ) <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>summons</mark></a> a pair of small @-@ time thieves that he <a href='been_done' title='2'><mark>had</mark></a> once arrested . Thakur <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>feels</mark></a> that the duo — Veeru ( Dharmendra ) and Jai ( Amitabh Bachchan ) — would be ideal to help him capture Gabbar Singh ( Amjad Khan ) , a dacoit wanted by the authorities for a ₹ 50 @,@ 000 reward . Thakur <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>tells</mark></a> them to surrender Gabbar to him , alive , for an additional ₹ 20 @,@ 000 reward . 
In the small village of Ramgarh , da retired policeman Thakur Baldev Singh ( Sanjeev Kumar ) summon a pair of small @-@ time thieves that he done once arrested . Thakur feel that tdaduo — Veeru ( Dharmendra ) and Jai ( Amitabh Bachchan ) — would b ideal to help him capture Gabbar Singh ( Amjad Khan ) , a dacoit wanted by thdauthorities for a ₹ 50 @,@ 000 reward . Thakur tell em to surrender Gabbar to him , alive , for an additional ₹ 20 @,@ 000 reward .