"sholay" (1975), directed by ramesh sippy and written by salim-javed, also falls under the masala genre. it is sometimes called a "curry western", a play on the term spaghetti western. a more accurate genre label is the "dacoit western", as it combined the conventions of indian dacoit films such as "mother india" (1957) and "gunga jumna" (1961) with that of spaghetti westerns. "sholay" spawned a subgenre of "dacoit western" films in the 1970s.