Mumbai: Ramesh Sippy‘s Sholay is expected to hit theatres again, albeit in a new avatar. This time, the film will be released in 3D.

Producer-director Ketan Mehta’s high tech effects from Maya Digital Studios is working on the conversion of Sholay in 3D. The senior director at the studio Frank Foster is heading the project. It has been decided that due to technical restraints, most of the action sequences will be in 3D.

Foster has confessed that transforming this 35-year-old movie that is not colour corrected from 2D to 3D was a very thought-provoking task. When movies normally have 2000 shots, Sholay has about 5000 shots that need to be boosted for better visual effects.

The film, which is over three hours in length, is the longest to be converted into 3D. Sholay is expected to release next year.