Mithun Chakraborty’s ‘Disco Dancer’ first Indian film to enter the Rs 100 cr- club, claims biography
Produced and directed by Babbar Subhash, “Disco Dancer” is a fictional rags-to-riches story of road performer Jimmy (performed by Mithun) who scaled dizzying heights as a disco singer and dancer. The movie was a musical blockbuster with its songs gaining recognition overseas, too.
“The movie launched India to the world of disco and the viewers simply went berserk. The movie was a roaring success abroad too, together with Central Asia, Jap Europe, Russia, China, the Center East, Turkey, and West and East Africa,” Mukherjee writes in one of many chapters devoted to the cult movie.
“The truth is, ‘Disco Dancer’ was the primary Indian movie to gross Rs 100 crore worldwide. The music of the film was an enormous hit and received many an accolade. ‘Disco Dancer’ additionally noticed the delivery of the well-known Mithun-Bappi Lahiri collaboration and the 2 labored collectively in an astonishing variety of movies, a lot of which turned out to be superhits over time together with ‘Dance Dance’ (1987), ‘Guru’ (1989), ‘Prem Pratigya’ (1989), ‘Dalaal’ (1993), and quite a few others,” the journalist-turned-filmmaker writes.
Introduced out by Rupa Publications, the biography attracts closely from Mithun’s print and video interviews over time and the writer’s interactions with the 71-year-old actor’s members of the family, private employees and trade friends.
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Mukherjee, who has been a cinema journalist, leaves no vital level of Mithun’s life untouched as he navigates the story of his life from his humble beginnings in Bengal, college and faculty life and the way he needed to depart his homeland to flee an “inevitable demise or jail” due to his brush with “Naxalism”.
Operating round 200 pages, the e book additionally traces the struggles of the younger Gourang (Mithun’s actual title) when he reached Bombay and tried to seek out work as an actor whereas participating in menial jobs with a purpose to safe every day meals earlier than turning into a driving power within the Hindi movie trade that he finally did and earned three nationwide movie awards for his performing.
“The story of Mithun Chakraborty stays a compelling story of wrestle and success, of a middle-class boy making it large on this planet of excessive glamour. No much less dramatic than probably the most vibrant and dramatic Bollywood films,” Mukherjee says.
“Mithun has confirmed Hindi cinema {that a} tall, darkish man with a captivating smile and a fantastic physique can take the world on…,” he provides, referring to the struggles the veteran actor and a rank outsider in Bollywood needed to undergo due to his pores and skin complexion.
“Mithun Chakraborty: The Dada of Bollywood” additionally touches on the previous Rajya Sabha member’s affinity with the Communist Occasion of India (Marxist), the Congress, the Shiv Sena, the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Occasion and private ties with politicians a minimum of Jyoti Basu and Balasaheb Thackeray.
The e book, amongst different points, takes up Mithun’s embroilment within the Saradha chit fund rip-off, romantic hyperlink ups with co-actors through the Eighties in addition to his selection of doing ‘B-grade’ movies for a substantial interval extending until Nineties.
