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Mithun Chakraborty, Kim, Kalpana Iyer, Om Puri, Gita Siddharth

Directed by B. Subhash, Disco Dancer revolves around Jimmy (Mithun Chakravarti), who entertained the streets of Bombay with his musical performances from boyhood. When he was badly beaten by the fathe... read more read more...r of one of his female fans, Jimmy vows that vengeance will be his if he becomes the best disco dancer in India. Fifteen years later, Jimmy finds himself on the heels of Sam, the premier dancer of the time. Just as it looks that he will be taking Sam's crown, a plot to kill him threatens to cramp his style, and Jimmy responds in the only way he knows how -- with disco. Disco Dancer features supporting performances from Rajesh Khanna, Kalpana Iyyar, and Om Puri. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

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Directed by: Babbar Subhash

Release Date: December 10, 1983

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DVD Release Date: September 28, 1999

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  • lurple
    August 24, 2008
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    Disco was already all about excess and poor taste, so when Bollywood does disco you'd better be prepared for a double-barreled blast of dance inferno madness.

    It would be easy to dismiss Disco Dancer as pure junk if you haven't seen it. Fortunately (like many Bollywood movies) i... read moret possesses such infectious enthusiasm that the movie is enjoyable even though the pieces it's crafted from are so patently ridiculous. Mixing sappy melodrama, kung fu fights with gangsters straight out of an of Indian West Side Story, Bollywood-style disco song and dance numbers (some of which have bizarre adaptions of American tunes like Video Killed the Radio Star), romance, and borderline cartoon-esque villains; it shouldn't work.

    Somehow it kind of does. The movie is off in its own weird, alternate world where disco was and always will be cool, the villains are vile, and for some reason people who are really good at disco are also experts at poorly choreographed kung fu. The film is rife with sparkling candy-colored scenes, some of which look like they were shot through a kaleidecope. Some of the dance numbers are pretty cool and a some of the bizarre tunes are catchy. The fight scenes are pretty damn funny, too. For the right kind of viewer it's a small piece of glittering disco gold.

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  • I've been a disco dancer, a cab driver, a woman, and my worst enemy. Who am I?  Answer »
  • I was a witch who conned a lawyer into thinking I was a victim and had him killed so that my cult could continue on; I met a famous baseball pitcher just off the freeway near New York City; I'm married to a disco dancer; and I made passionate but funny whoopie with a sports agent. Who am I?  Answer »
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