Disco Dancer
A poor street performer rises to fame as a disco singer while confronting childhood humiliation, violent rivals and a revenge plot that culminates in serious injury and the death of his mother.
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Credits and facts
Movie details
- Release date
- 17 December 1982
- Runtime
- 135 minutes
- Country
- India
- Languages
- Hindi
- Genres
- Drama, Action, Musical
- Director
- Babbar Subhash
- Writers
- Rahi Masoom Raza, Deepak Balraj Vij
- Cast
- Mithun Chakraborty, Kim, Om Puri, Rajesh Khanna, Gita Siddharth, Karan Razdan
- Producers
- Babbar Subhash
- Production company
- B. Subhash Movie Unit
Spoiler-free synopsis
A poor street performer rises to fame as a disco singer while confronting childhood humiliation, violent rivals and a revenge plot that culminates in serious injury and the death of his mother.
For families
Editorial guidance
Context for discussing the story and deciding whether it fits your household.
Positive messages
Constructive themes or examples.The film can support constructive discussion about empathy, responsibility, honesty and the consequences of personal choices. Families can also examine how relationships, authority and social expectations are portrayed, and distinguish behaviour that a story depicts from behaviour it approves. As a work from early-1980s Indian cinema, it can additionally prompt useful conversation about changing cultural norms and storytelling styles.
Negative behaviours
Conduct that may need context.Content needing context includes physical assault and revenge violence, electrocution death, serious injury, childhood trauma and poverty. Characters may face harmful, coercive, deceptive or emotionally difficult situations, and some consequences can be serious even when the presentation is not graphic by modern standards. Parents can help younger viewers separate dramatic convention from healthy real-world behaviour, especially around power, consent, family pressure, violence or other mature choices shown or discussed.
Topics to discuss
Conversation starters after viewing.Useful discussion topics include how characters respond to pressure, whether they respect other people’s choices, what fair alternatives were available, and whether consequences match the decisions made. Families can also compare the film’s treatment of gender roles, family duty, authority, romance and social reputation with present-day expectations, while remembering that historical representation is not the same as endorsement.
Final recommendation
Our family-viewing take
Suggested minimum age: 13+. The film is better suited to teenagers and mature pre-teens than to very young children. The strongest researched concerns are physical assault and revenge violence, electrocution death, serious injury, childhood trauma and poverty. For shared family viewing, use the six category ratings as a guide and preview if a child is sensitive to these themes. The recommendation is editorial, not a substitute for an official CBFC classification.
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