Disco Dancer still a HIT.

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Despite being clearly dated, "Disco Dancer," a 1982 film, makes the cash registers ring more than 20 years later in Ouagadougou, which hosts a pan-African film festival every two years.

The hero, actor Mithun Chakravarty, now a fading star, sports bell bottoms and gyrates his way through the film.

The majority of younger Indians today have not seen it -- it is too passe, too garish, too disco-era. But that's not a problem here.

Ousmane, an 18-year-old, said vintage Indian stars like Shashi Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan, whom French director Francois Truffaut once dubbed a "one-man industry", are very popular along with the newer crop of screen stars, such as Aishwarya Rai.

All will be in attendance at the Bollywood Oscars ceremony in the South African resort town of Sun City this Saturday.

"In this capital city of African cinema, Indian films are king," said Traore Arouna, who runs a video film parlour in Ouagadougou's popular Dapoya quarter.

"Without these films, I would have been forced to close shop much earlier," he said.


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Mithun Da has always been the poor man's superstar.

Mithun da zindabaad.

He is th greatest.

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