Dance Dance

About the film

Dance Dance is a 1987 Indian Hindi-language dance film, directed and produced by Babbar Subhash. The film is a musical and stars Mithun Chakraborty, Smita Patil, and Mandakini . It also stars Amrish Puri, Shakti Kapoor, and Om Shivpuri in supporting roles. It is about a brother and sister who try to find success and become big singers.

Several scenes follow very closely those from the film Fast Forward, directed by Sidney Poitier.

Plot

Radha and Ramu are siblings. Their parents Shyam and Sita are singers. Once, Shyam and Sita go to perform in Jalpaiguri to earn some money, since they are in a poor status and they have to pay a monthly rent. While performing in Jalpaiguri wearing sexy and revealing clothes, Sita catches the eye of a rich and powerful man called A.M. Singh. He stops them mid-way home, kills Shyam and rapes Sita. Radha and Ramu are informed of their parents' deaths. The house proprietor banishes them and they become homeless. Years later, Radha and Ramu have achieved success and are popular singers now. Ramu falls in love with Janita and Radha marries Resham, who is their troupe member. They all sing and perform together. However, Resham becomes different and strange. He comes to abuse Radha. When Ramu discovers that, he tries to prevent him, but Radha does not allow him to do it. Radha finds out that she is pregnant. She comes to inform her husband and finds him with another woman in their bed. She reacts angrily and Resham beats her in such a cruel way, that she dies in the hospital. Ramu loses all interest in life, and even Janita, his new stage partner and lover, is not able to immediately pull him out of depression. In the name of Radha she succeeds. On the way to Jalpaiguri, where the next concert is to take place, Janita is attacked by Mr. Singh's minion, but she is saved by Sita. Having …

Soundtrack

The music for Dance Dance is inspired by the Italo disco style of the eighties and its well known artists such as Modern Talking. The main melody of "Zooby Zooby" copies that of the song "Brother Louie". The singer Alisha Chinai makes here one of her first playback singing steps in "Zooby Zooby". Themes from Chariots of Fire and Star Wars feature as incidental music. The song "Dil Mera Todo Na" is heavily derived by the English band UB40's "Don't Break My Heart".

The lyrics of all songs were written by Anjaan, and music of all songs were composed by Bappi Lahiri.

In 2009, the song Zooby Zooby remake by Sourabhee Debbarma on her first album "Meherbaan Sourabhee" the music was remake by Harpeet Singh and Ajay Singha under label Sony Music Entertainment India.

Release

The film was a hit at the box office and fourteenth highest-grossing movie of 1987. A Russian-dubbed version of Dance Dance was released all across the Soviet Union in 1989 by Soviet film company Gorki Film Studio

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