Disco Dancer

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Disco Dancer
Directed by Babbar Subhash
Produced by Babbar Subhash
Tilotima Babbar Subhash
Written by Dr. Rahi Masoom Reza
Balraj Deepak Vij
Starring Mithun Chakraborty
Kim
Om Puri
Rajesh Khanna
Gita Siddharth
Music by Bappi Lahiri
Release date(s) 1982
Running time 135 min.
Language Hindi
IMDb profile

Disco Dancer is a 1983 Bollywood movie starring Mithun Chakraborty. It is notable for having been popular in both India and the Soviet Union during the 1980s. The film tells the rags-to-riches story of a young street performer. Today, the movie has become a cult phenomenon among many generations of Indians who grew up in the 80s and remember the classic I am a Disco Dancer song. The movie was a musical blockbuster and cemented music director Bappi Lahiri's talents in Bollywood.

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[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Anil (Mithun Chakraborty), a street performer and wedding singer, is scarred by the memory of the rich P.N. Oberoi (Om Shivpuri) beating his mother (Gita Siddharth) in an incident during his childhood. When the manager (Om Puri) of current Indian disco champion Sam (Karan Razdan) is fed up and looks for some new talent, he happens across Anil who is dance-walking down a street. Rebranded as "Jimmy", the rising disco star must take the throne from Sam and win the heart of Rita (Kim), P.N. Oberoi's daughter. All seems to be going well until Oberoi hires men to connect Jimmy's electric guitar to 5,000 volts of electricity, causing Jimmy's mother to die in a tragic accident. With his legs broken by Oberoi's goons and guitar phobia from the incident with his mother, Jimmy must claim first place for Team India at the International Disco Dancing Competition amidst strong competition from Team Africa and Team Paris. Will he succeed?

Jimmy chops a guitar in half during the International Disco Dancing Competition.
Jimmy chops a guitar in half during the International Disco Dancing Competition.
Spoilers end here.

[edit] Disco Dancer Parody

With its popularity, there has been numerous parody of the film. One of the more famous spoofs can be seen on websites like youtube(The Rebirth of Disco Dancer - in New York City 2006).

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hYdYJSZvaSY

[edit] Memorable quotes

  • "Don't you know the difference between green room and bedroom?" - David Brown, Sam's manager, later Jimmy's manager
  • "He's got guitar phobia. A guitar killed his mother." - P.N. Oberoi
  • "Thirty six managers like you would appear upon just one of Sam's dance movements, but a star like Sam is born only once every two or four centuries." - Sam Oberoi to manager David Brown
  • "Sam is the heartbeat of millions of girls. Now get out!" - Sam Oberoi
  • "You ba-a-a-a-astard!" - P.N. Oberoi, Sam Oberoi
  • "You dirty son of a gun!" - Sam Oberoi
  • "Mr. Oberoi, this is the man. The bastard's killed seven people in London. And there was a very famous singer... I don't know his name, but he murdered him too. The bastard's a top class criminal." - Vasco, to P.N. Oberoi
  • "These are the tears of a popular famous artist." - Jimmy
  • "Come, sing, and conquer!" - David Brown
  • "Mother, I have my music. I will sharpen this music like a sword and stab the city's heart with it." - Jimmy

[edit] Songs

(one of the earliest songs on racism, before Michael Jackson's Black or White)

  • Krishna Dharti Pe Aaja Tu - Nandu Bhende
  • I Am A Disco Dancer - Vijay Benedict

[edit] External links

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