Disco Dancer (1982)
Movie Overview
Release date: 1982
Runtime: N/A
Genre: Action, Drama, Musical, Romance
Starring: Mithun Chakraborty, Kim, Rajesh Khanna, Danny Denzongpa, Om Puri, Kalpana Iyer, Yunus Parvez, Gita Siddharth, Bob Christo,
Director: B Subhash, Irfan Khan
Produced by: B Subhash
Critics (1)
Users (3)
My Rating
Master Raju and Anil about eight years old use to sing & dance on streets for their livelihood. Master Raju receives a letter of his mothers sickness & goes to his village.
Anil has a widowed mother, who accompanies him now for street singing. One day while they are singing before Mr.Oberoi bungalow, his daughter calls them inside the bungalow and both sing and dance together. Meantime oberoi comes home and finding the onlookers climbing the walls of his bungalow gets angry. He abuses Anil & he gets a good bashing from Mr. Oberoi's servants. Police comes, Oberoi puts a false charge of a guitar theft on Anil & his mother. When they return form the lock up, the whole Basti calls them, "Thieves! Thieves!" Seeing this Anil's mother takes him away from the city of Bombay to Goa. Anil grows up, & earns his livelihood by dancing on marriage parties but he has not forgotten the insult done to his mother by Mr.Oberoi. Oberoi's son Sam is a Superstar dancer. He comes across Anil. On the very first show Rita and her friends try to hoot Anil's singing and dancing but Anil is successful. Anil scolds Rita for trying to make his show unsuccessful. Anil, who is now Jimmy becomes a big star. The life goes on with success kissing his feet as one day Jimmy comes across Oberoi in a party. Rita who is none else but daughter of Oberoi and childhood play mate of Jimmy, falls in love with Jimmy. One day Oberoi comes to know about their affair, he prepares a plan to kill him by infusing 5000 volts electric currents in the guitar he is going to play. All is set for his death that his mother comes to know about the plan. She saves her son by giving her own life. It is a shock and jolts Jimmy suffers a guitar phobia. He starts loosing his popularity, Rita manages to bring him back on the stage but he is unable to sing and dance. Crowd gets furious, they hit him with stone and at that point a voice in the form of song is heard.
Critics Reviews
Desicritics.org, India | 2007-06-10
Admittedly this is only delightful because I can look back and see their movie histories behind me - Don and Disco Dancer together!
One memory loss might be standard filmi or soap-opera goodness; two seems beyond excessive, especially because they're seen in quick succession at the beginning of the movie, leaving most of the film to be a flashback, and because the major plot elements could have worked without either.
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User Reviews
Corny Bollywood nonsense that should be a cult classic
Damian Bridgeman@imdb | 2004-07-05
Hi All,This is a breath taking piece of work as it is probably the strangest and funniest film I have ever seen. Although I suspect this was not the intention of the film. This is late night after the pub... Read more at imdb.com
Entertainingly Silly
David Austin@imdb | 2003-05-26
This is the incredibly silly story of a heroic Disco Dancer and his mother trying to restore their good name and defeat the evil Disco Dancer and his rich, evil father. The evil Disco Dancer has a goofy Freddy Mercury... Read more at imdb.com
Mithun's Best Film....Classic Stuff...Great Songs
Liakot Ali@imdb | 2006-06-18
Mithun is well known for his Classic movie Disco Dancer. Mithun delivers a superb performance in a great role. The actresses are long forgotten girls of the past. The villain is a little cartoonic, Om shiv Puri does a good... Read more at imdb.com
Naff classic
rl400@imdb | 2005-01-22
There's plenty of silly Bollywood films out there but this is the best of the lot! At times its hard to believe its not some genius spoof. There are some real 'I cant believe that just happened!' moments... whats the... Read more at imdb.com
Ultimate relaxant
Stanislav Ostachevski@imdb | 2005-03-07
Turn off your brains, sit back and relax - that's the slogan for most Indian movies. I consider this one to be a masterpiece. "Jimmy, jimmy - acha acha acha!" - this song is still remembered throughout the former Soviet... Read more at imdb.com
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