There are so many layers to the Mithun oeuvre - the hysteria he generates in Russia over Disco Dancer, starring in as many as 25 releases in 1999, winning the National Award three times, playing everything from a spy to sexual predator, dancer to godman, embracing absurdity with a vengeance or the other way around in one B-film after another - it is natural to feel overwhelmed and exhausted at once.Įven his ghastliest is stuff is so bad, it's good.
To understand it, you need to see his movies, hear his fans.
No, we think of his fans whose love, loyalty and excitement for his erratic, eclectic cinema, going the whole hog between terrific to trashy, led to the cult of Mithun Chakraborty, the people's hero. 'All the light boys and spot boys rushed to take pictures and autographs,' she stated in its 'making of' video.īut when we think of Mithun Chakraborty, we rarely think of his collaborators.
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Director Mrinal Sen was attracted to his 'shamelessness' when he first laid eyes on a young aspiring actor at the Film and Television Institute of India.īappi Lahiri was the first to applaud in the trial room on witnessing his electric dance moves in Disco Dancer.Īmitabh Bachchan fondly recalled his co-star running around 'enthusiastically ready to carry my bags for me' while filming a blink-and-miss scene for his first film.Ĭhoreographer-turned-director Farah Khan revealed how Mithun's entry on the sets of Om Shanti Om, where he pitches in an appearance along with 30 other Bollywood stars, caused a near stampede.
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