In today’s era, 100 crores is not a big deal for films and people’s target is set to 500 crores. If small budget films earn two or three times more than their cost, then they are a hit but when it comes to big budget and there are big stars in it, then there is a debate on crossing 500 or thousand crores. But about 42 years ago, the first such film of Indian cinema came out which grossed 100 crores.
The film we are talking about came in 1982 in which the lead actor was Mithun Chakraborty and the film proved to be a blockbuster. The name of this film was ‘Disco Dancer’ and it proved to be the most successful film of that year. Let us tell you about its box office collection.
First Hindi film to earn 100 crores
Mithun Chakraborty gained a lot of popularity in the film Disco Dancer, released on 10 December 1982 and this became the ‘grandfather’ of Bollywood. In this film, directed and produced by Babbar Subhash, Bappi Lahiri had a music music and sang some songs of the film. If we talk about earning, then this film had collected 100 crores and this was the first film to do so. According to Sacnilk, the film disco dancer had a budget of 2 crores while the film collected 100.70 crores at the worldwide box office. The songs of this film were super hit and even today people listen to them.
A scene of the film disco dancer
Mithun Chakraborty was in the lead role in the film Disco Dancer and apart from Kalpana Iyer, Geeta Siddharth, Om Puri, Master Chhotu, Bob Christo, Om Shivpuri. You can watch this film on the prime video on OTT. People still listen to the songs of the film on YouTube with great fervor. Songs like ‘I am a disco dancer’, ‘Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy’, ‘Remember Hai Hai’ and ‘Goras Na Kal Ki Ki’ are still superhit in the film.