Disco! - Throwback Thursday

A #ThrowbackThursday section is the best place to recap on disco dancing – the Holy Grail of coolness in the 1980s that have fallen out of favour with the twerking generation. <insert rant about collapse of moral fibre>

Here is a handy guide of the Disco Essentials of 1980s Bollywood... Just the thing you need to have a disco party anytime soon!

Disco Lights

The most important part of disco dancing are the cool lights that spread around like you like a halo and make you look better than you actually are.  

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Jazzy Floor

Before you tell people to ‘get on the dance floor’, you have to ensure the floor is something else. Cool dudes like Monty ‘Karz’ Oberoi shook a leg on a rotating record while poorer souls had to make do with flashing lights under the floor!

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Flamboyant Entry Mechanism

If you attended even a single Delhi wedding, you know the game is won or lost with the ‘entry’. Disco heroes use elaborate cantilever cranes to maaro such entriyaan that your hearts will ring the ghantiyan!

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Backup dancers

Drums and guitars, bongos and congos, or even hands and legs – all are operated by anonymous Shakiras in lycra, people who dance better than the hero but are willing not to show it!

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Optional extra: Colour-coordinated backup dancers

Badass Set

Need I say more?

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Badass sets are a must, even if it looks like a railway station. You can always call it Disco Station!

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Cool Name

Marketing is everything, boss. Just as Janardhan Jakhar got kicked about all over DU while Jordan kicked ass all over Europe, you are nothing without your Avengers.  

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Errr... Better than this, partner!

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'Most importantly, you must have Mithun Chakraborty in your heart. Without him, there is no disco. Or at least, no disco in Bollywood.

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