This film broke Sholay’s record
In today’s time, it has become common for films to collect Rs 100 crore at the box office. Many such films have been released in the last few years, which collected 100-200 crores or more at the box office. But do you know the name of the first Indian film that touched this figure? This is a matter of that era, when films earn only 10-20 crores, they used to fall under the category of blockbuster. Whenever there is talk of 100 crores films, the names of films like ‘Ghajini’ and ‘3 Idiots’ have come in the 2000s. These films touched this figure at the domestic box office, but you will be surprised to know that the first 100 crore film was released in the 80s.
The first Indian film to cross the 100 crore mark
The film was none other than the ‘Disco Dancer’ directed by Babbar Subhash, which crossed the 100 crore mark internationally. It was the first Bollywood film to achieve this feat. It was a musical drama, which proved to be a blockbuster and broke all the box office records.
Mithun Chakraborty got special identity
Along with this, Mithun Chakraborty also got a special identity. Gemini with a disco dancer is such that he is still known as ‘Jimmy’. The story of this film revolves around a road impression singer who becomes a disco superstar. After release, disco dancer earned more than Rs 6 crore at the Indian box office, but broke the records in foreign earnings.
Records in foreign earnings
The film overtook all films in terms of foreign earnings, especially in the Soviet Union, it received tremendous response. On release, it collected about 60 million rubles (about Rs 94.28 crore) in Russia in 1984. The popularity of the disco dancer can be gauged from the fact that 12 crore tickets were sold. With this, the world wide earnings of disco dancer reached about Rs 100.68 crore.
Disco dancer made a big record
Sholay’s records were also left behind
Earlier, ‘Sholay’ was the highest grossing film. Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Jaya Bachchan Star film grossed Rs 35 crore worldwide. The disco dancer collected three times more than this figure and no film could break this record for almost a decade. Then released in 1994, ‘Hum Aapke Hain Kaun’ broke the record of the disco dancer.
These stars were also seen in a disco dancer
Talking about ‘Disco Dancer’, it had artists like Kalpana Iyer, Rajesh Khanna, Kim Yashpal and Om Puri besides Mithun Chakraborty. Mithun was then the new Bollywood actor, despite this, disco dancer became a stunning blockbuster and with this Mithun’s popularity also increased.
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