Dance Dance (1987)

Orphaned as kids, Radha and her brother Ramu make their living by dancing and singing in small functions. Ramu makes it big in the music world.

Director:

Babbar Subhash

Writers:

Rahi Masoom Reza (dialogue), Babbar Subhash (screenplay),

Stars:

Mithun Chakraborty, Smita Patil, Mandakini

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Mithun Chakraborty	...	Ramu 'Romeo' (as Mithun Chakrobarty)
Smita Patil	...	Radha
Mandakini	...	Janita
Shakti Kapoor	...	Resham
Amrish Puri	...	Raja Bahadur A.M. Singh
Om Shivpuri	...	David Brown
Dalip Tahil	...	Brijmohan 'Binju'
Gita Siddharth	...	Mrs. Sangeeta Arora (as Geeta Sidharath)
Yunus Parvez	...	(as Yunus Pravez)
Chandrashekhar	...	S.K. Arora (as Chander Shekhar)
Sarla Yeolekar	...	Seeta
Raja Duggal	...	Duggal - Bartender (as Duggal)
Satish Kaul	...	Shyam
Sunil Dhawan
Manik Irani	...	Manek (as Manek Irani)

Storyline

Shyam and Sita belong to a song and dance troupe and live a poor lifestyle in Panjim with two small children, Radha and Ramu. They go to Jalpaiguri to perform to get some money, however, Sita's beauty catches the eye of trumpet-playing A.M. Singh, who decides to keep her, and kills the rest of the troupe members in an arranged bus accident. Radha and Ramu become homeless and destitute, they sing and dance on the roadside to make some money. Years later they have grown up and are quite popular. Radha gets married to one of the troupe members, Resham, while Ramu, who is now known as Romeo falls in love with Janita and inducts her in their group. With Radha pregnant, Ramu and Janita decide to perform in Jalpaiguri. A.M. Singh, who is still alive, and has forced Sita to live in the dense forests, now feasts his eye on Janita and plans deviously to to ensnare her all for himself. Then Radha suddenly passes away, and a distraught Ramu, suspecting Resham of killing her, takes to alcohol in a...

Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

15 May 1987 (India)

Company Credits

Production Co:

B. Subhash Movie Unit

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

"Dance Dance"
Music by Bappi Lahiri
Lyrics by Anjaan
Performed by Alisha Chinoi, Vijay Benedict, Chorus

User Reviews

Disco & high drama

Disclaimer first: I got this interesting piece only in a Russian-dubbed version,of which I understood an occasional word or two, so I can't comment on the dialogs.

As the title strongly indicates, you get a bigger share of song & dance items (mostly 1980s disco music) than usual in Bollies. But given that most protagonists do singing and dancing for a living, they fit in quite naturally, and add to humor (I liked the sabotage of a Lions' Club classical music event best, the Xmas party less so) or drama.

And drama there is aplenty. A mother abducted, and fleeing to the woods, brother and sister growing up as orphans, doing song & dance for a living. Both marry, and go through different fates, in which (stylized) alcoholism plays no small role.

Then there is the super-bad guy (who looks his role exceedingly well) and his motorcycle gang... All in all, a strong emotional piece, which in the end left me with a good feeling. Not a must-see, but certainly not a bad experience if you can get hold of it.