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Now, Disco Dancer is not a great film, for sure. Some might consider it an unintentional success. That said, there are many factors going for it. First, it's one of the many films starring Mithun Chakraborty, and it wholly rests on his presence, and it was quite a presence. Chakraborty, a talented, trained actor from Bengal, found a niche in countless Hindi romantic action films during the 1980s. He was perhaps the most prolific Indian actor of the decade. Most of these films were not considered of the highest order (not that mainstream Hindi cinema was very good in this era to begin with), but they were entertaining, and even though the skilled actor was not given true, challenging material in most of them, they let him exhibit his explosive charisma, distinctive dancing skills, which included some trademark moves, and a highly relatable screen persona which many young men identified with and imitated.

Disco Dancer, a sort of rags-to-riches dance film, where a young man from a poor neighbourhood becomes an overnight star, was one of the early films which shot him to fame and was followed by several films that followed a similar star fomula. The film did well not only in India but elsewhere, and became not only for Chakraborty's memorable turn but for its catchy music by Bappi Lahiri which was, by the way, not very original. The "Jimmy Jimmy" track is, for all its unoriginality, so catchy. My personal favourite is actually Lahiri's own rendition of "Yaad Aa Raha Hai". As a film, Disco Dancer is fun - it flows well and entertains and just as it might be a guilty pleasure for many, I wouldn't be surprised if some considered it one of their favourites. The film, despite some poor writing and some absurdities here and there, just works. It's twisted and a little cheesy but ultimately a nice watch, which must hold great nostalgic value today for many.

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 mustache and rips off the 80's song Video Killed the Radio Star. The good Disco Dancer snaps his fingers when he fights like an extra from West Side Story. The main bad guy employs that big goofy looking bearded white guy who was in so many Indian movies of the era as a heavy. The musical numbers are the reason to show up - they are frequent and hilarious.

I definitely recommend this movie. Very goofy stuff, great singing and dancing, mega-retarded plot. My girlfriend, who generally can't stand silly movies, had the "I am Disco Dancer" song stuck in her head for a week. Go crazy!

After 40 years still the songs of " Disco Dancer " are fantastic, but the script is awful and such a cliché. If you don't watch " Disco Dancer " you don't miss anything at all, but I recommend you listen to it songs.

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 midget wedding all about!? Our hero Jimmy avenges his mothers humiliation by badman Oberoi by becoming a disco dancing star. On the way he sees off rival disco dancer who happens to be Oberois son, kung-fu kicks Oberois goons, ruins Oberois business and not only that he bags his daughter.. what a guy!

If you have a stupid sense of humour and can appreciate the early 80s naffness it'll put a big fat silly smile on your face. The music isn't so great when compared to other disco films like Star or Qurbani but makes up for in the bonkers department. Having said all that its not a bad little film underneath and Mithun puts in a great performance as Jimmy. The end climax is just classic. Sing Jimmy, sing!!

Disco Dancer Directed By B. Subhash is A Musical Drama. Script is Below The Mark. Screenplay is Strictly Average. Direction Works Only in Parts. Music is Awesome. Dialogues Are Fine. Editing Could Have Been Better. Action is Less Effective.

Anil (Mithun Chakraborty), A Street Performer is Scarred By The Memory Of The Rich P.N. Oberoi (Om Shivpuri) Humiliating & Insulting His Mother (Gita Siddharth) in An Incident During His Childhood. When David Brown, The Manager (Om Puri) is Fed Up Of Indian Disco Champion's Tantrums Sam (Karan Razdan) And Looks For New Talent, He Happens To Watch Anil Dance-Walking Across The Street. Renamed as 'Jimmy', The Rising Disco Star Must Take The Throne From Sam, He Also Wins Heart Of Rita (Kim Yashpal), Oberoi's Daughter.

Acting Wise Mithun Chakraborty Excels In Dance As Well As in Emotional Scenes. Om Shivpuri is Good. Karan Rajdan & Kim Are Disappointing. Om Puri Does Well In His Limited Screen Time. Geeta Siddhart & Rajesh Khanna Are Just Fine.

Music By Bappi Lahiri is Awesome. Music is Best Part Of The Movie. Most Of The Songs Are Considered Classic Like "Goron Ki Na Kalo Ki" By Suresh Wadkar & Usha Mangeshkar,"Yaad Aa Raha Hai Tera Pyar" By Bappi Lahiri,"I Am A Disco Dancer" By Bappi Lahiri And "Koi Yahan Nache Nache" By Bappi Lahiri & Usha Uthup.

Disco Dancer Will Be Remembered For Mithun Chakraborty's Dance & Bappi Lahiri's Music. A Must Watch For Mithun Fans.

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 Union, though 20 years have passed since the film was #1 in national top. Indeed, Indian producers far outsmarted Walt Disney in silly-story-making, with far lower budget. Who knows what globalization issues will produce in the next few years? If Indians win the movie entertainment market, this film may hold the place of Casablanca. As a matter of fact, both Casablanca and Disco Dancers are full of clichés and national vision of the outer world, so in this point of view Disco Dancer is a masterpiece again.

These kind of movies are the reason why some people think all Bollywood movies are bad.

Added an extra star just for the appearance of the great Rajesh Khanna.

This movie earned Rs 113 .20 crore at the worldwide box office. The movie had some flaws like each and every movie. It has a good storyline. Great Songs , music and dance performances. Direction is good. The only problem is its editing. It had great climax scene. Acting wise Mithun, Om Puri and Om Shiv Puri were excellent and rest are good. It was the first Indian movie to enter into 100 crore club. A must watch movie before you die.

I gave this movie 10 out of 10 after strong and long consideration. The matter is - that I have seen it lately... again... I have laughed all my way through it, and the same time I felt very much nostalgic. I was about to give it 3 or 4 out of 10, but ... It was like I was laughing at my innocence or naiveness. By than, in 80-th, in USSR I watched this movie 12 times. I can not remember any other title I have seen so many times. I always cried. All the second part I was crying my heart out even when I watched it for 12-th time. Everything was so vivid, so alive... I believed in every word, every gesture, every move. And I was in love with the actor or it would be more precise to say with Jimmy. There is definitely something in that movie! And I feel so much pity that now I am too adolescent and cynic to see it any more.

Disco Dancer review :

1982 was the year of Asian Games. 1982 was year of Carlos the Jackal .... .... And most important, 1982 was the year of 'Disco Dancer'

A film which introduced pop culture to Bollywood, made Mithun Chakraborty an overnight dancing sensation and took Indian cinema international from south east Asia to Russia.

I kid you not!! I visited Russia recently and was pleasantly surprised to know that while the older generation Russians associate Raj Kapoor with India, their next gen know us as the land which produced Disco Dancer.

Prabhuji (which means God), as Mithunda is still referred to in the interiors of North India, started his illustrious career with the offbeat 'Mrigaya' (1976) for which he won his first National award but hit real box office gold with this B. Subhash directed musical.

Disco Dancer had some superlative tracks by Bappi Lahiri. 'Krishna dharti pe aaja', 'Koi Yahan Nache Nache' and of course the title song ' I am a disco dancer' is still potent enough to influence Rohit Shetty to do a parody of it with the older Mithunda in 'Golmaal 3' (2010). Superstar Rajesh Khanna was roped in a special appearance to hum 'Goron ki naa Kaalon ki, Duniya hai Dilwalon ki'. Remember this was almost a decade before Michael Jackson told the world that it doesn't matter if you are black or white.

The story was simple - a street urchin turns big when his talent is identified and groomed by a manager of a fading arrogant dancer. The rag to riches disco dancer manages to settle score with the baddie who had insulted his mother but loses a lot of his own in the bargain.

Today, the plot may appear clichéd; almost laughable but the movie hasn't lost its spirit and spunk.

Kim played the heroine to Prabhuji but I personally loved the sexy Kalpana Iyer who made her presence felt in the one song and few scenes she appeared in. The portly Om Shivpuri played an unconvincing villain while Karan Razdan was the unintentional comic relief.

I revisited 'Disco Dancer' on DVD last night. It brought back pleasant memories of an era best known for films of "so bad they are good" type. The great grand excessive 80's we know of. Sometimes I actually miss those unpretentious times.

Koi lauta de mere woh beete huye din...

Regards, Sumeet Nadkarni.

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 stuff. Just laugh your way through it. the big guitar disco dance number near the end is so absurd that you will wet yourself from laughing. The guy who reviewed it is absolutely on the money in his comments. But it is impossible to really relate how nuts it is. With extra mirror balls and disco dancers that spring up out of nowhere. A Killing guitar (literally it kills). Unhappy Indian disco dancing punters that take out their frustrations by throwing sandals- whats it all about?

Cheers

Damian

B Subhash's 1983 cult hit 'Disco Dancer' is an excellent, fantastic watch. A complete entertainer, gripping from start to end. 10 on 10 stars for this all-time cult classic!

Songs: Bappi Lahri's songs have been remembered and always will be. All the songs are awesome.

Performances: Mithun short to Superstardom after Disco Dancer. Mithun, he's so rightly regarded as a Dancing Legend. Rajesh Khanna is restrained in a cameo. Kim is good. Late actor Om Shiv Puri is axed. Karan Razdan makes no effort to leave any mark. Om Puri excels.

'Disco Dancer' is a cult classic in all respects.

It's such a unique moving that goes about in a very different way then you're used to from bollywood movies. This movie isn't a 10, it's flawed. But the reasons why i love this film so much is because of the well written characters, the amazing songs (this movie has the best songs of any movie in my opinion) and the very different tone and pacing of this movie compared to other movies. I also have a huge love for music and because the songs are so awesome it's a 10 for me. Like i said, objectively speaking this movie is a 7, but for me personally it's one of my favorite movies of all time. FAT 10

Whatever people of today think about it , we were those who were there to see its flares. Those who never saw it , can they judge it? No. The world has witnessed the success of the movie , in both box office and worldwide. The film was a worldwide success, with its popularity extending across Asia, the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa. Disco Dancer was also the second highest-grossing film ever in the Soviet Union and the highest-grossing foreign film. Disco Dancer established Mithun as a household name wherever the film went well, with Jimmy became a more popular name for Mithun Chakraborty. The soundtrack album was also a success, going Platinum in India and receiving a Gold Award in China. Adjusted for inflation, it is still one of the highest-grossing Indian films of all time.

Bengali duo Mithun and Bappi take an Indian film to International.An Indian film of early eighties make its step in Russia, China, entire Southern Asia, Middle East was not an ordinary thing when Indian film just started to take the taste of Hollywood commercial flicks.Story, Screen play, direction of Disco Dancer was nothing extraordinary. Even Director B.Subhash was not sure that Disco Bonanza made an extraordinary impact, so there was mixing of traditional typical Hindi films concept like Mother-Son emotional relationship, 'Deewar' type sentiment 'Mera BAAP/Ma Chor Hain'.Starcast was also ordinary, apart from friendly appearance of Rajesh Khanna and early venture of Om Puri, rest of the star cast was just arranged to make a film which was very much common on those days in any Mithun Film.A grade actresses were not willing to work with Mithun inspite of his success in Suraksha, Tarana, Hum Panch and Wardat. But what makes Disco Dancer, a cult classic.Two things, One is, Bappi Lahiri's Music and another is Mithun's Stepping.Dance is done with legs, not with eyes or faces(nachna paroae se hota hain aankhon se nahin). This concept was proved by Mithun, his stepping smashes out Rishi Kapoor's Choclet Dance or Jeetendra's Jumping.Mithun's stepping, pelvic movement makes him immortal Disco King in Indian Cinema. Even Mithun's action in this film simply aheads as compared to his contemporary heroes.Bappi's Composition touched the International Standerd.Bappi's Three minutes thirty seconds saga 'Jimmy Jimmy aaza' was undoubtedly the first International Hit from Indian Cinema.Rest of the songs including 'I am a Disco Dancer' with Mithun's signature style were all super Hits'.Dance and music of this film definitely ahead of its times.This film changed the journey of Bollywood Cinema.Mithun established himself as first Hollywood based Dancer and action Hero of Bollywood and Bappi another immortal king in Disco music in Indian Cinema.This film was not at all similar to Hindi films of that time. So Indian audience and critics were not happy initially with this film.So success of Disco Dancer was far more in Russia than in India.But Disco Dancer gave two eternal Disco King of Indian Cinema Mithun and Bappi. This film may have various heal and hop but it deserves a perfect 10 for Bappi's bit and Mithun's step.