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This Week, That Year: How a Disco Dancer wooed India and won the world
This Week, That Year: How a Disco Dancer wooed India and won the world
ByRoshmila BhattacharyaRoshmila Bhattacharya / Updated: Dec 11, 2020, 06:00 IST
Almost four decades ago, director B Subhash while trying to boost the confidence of his hero,
Mithun Chakraborty, who had hit a professional low, assured him that he would make a film titled
Disco Dancer which would make him an overnight superstar. While he managed to put a spark in the actor’s eyes, his writer, the erudite
Dr Rahi Masoom Reza, was not impressed. “No one has heard of a Disco Dancer in India. How do you expect to forge a connection with the audience? Call the film Qawwal and we will take the story forward,” he suggested. But Subhashji was adamant that his first production would be titled Disco Dancer. Period.