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Jimmy begins planning for the future. He tells his mother that once he makes it big, that lousy town of theirs will honor and praise him. Mom asks him to let it go and move on, but Jimmy's got a score to settle. He tells her that he has his music, and will sharpen it like a sword. He will then stab the city's heart with it. With his Sharpened Sword of Disco, or SSD. From what I gather, these were all the rage in disco's prime.
We cut over to Oberoi's house where we see Sam (the reigning king of disco) saying goodbye to his father and heading out on a short tour. This leads us to our first major mind-numbing disco assault, "Koi Yahan Nache Nache." Brace yourself for the quick description: It's basically the Hindi disco version of The Buggle's hit single, "Video Killed the Radio Star" from The Age of Plastic album. I wish this was a joke, but it isn't. Go here and here for horrid examples of what I'm talking about.
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If these pictures look a little blurry, it's due to the lighting in the scene. There are many, many colored lights pointed right into the camera, as well as mirrors and other shiny surfaces all over the place. It's rather difficult to see many details, not that you'd really want to. Also, I'm not sure why Sam's the big star here, as the woman in the pair does most of the singing and dancing.
We see Sam making eyes at a particularly lovely lady in the crowd that is somehow not completely nauseated by his "performance" and indicates that she should meet him after the show. A jump cut to the backstage area shows a group of about a dozen or so frantic young ladies hurtling along the corridors to get into Sam's dressing room. They are stopped by a guard, but he allows David Brown, Sam's manager, into the room.
Sam
is in the middle of romancing his ladyfriend of the night, and is none too
pleased to have this interruption. Oddly David introduces himself as Sam's
manager, but I thought Sam might have known this already. Anyway, they trade
barbs for a while as David lectures Sam on being responsible and getting ready
for the next town's show. They need to get moving if they're to reach there in
time.
Sam, being the humble and understated musician that he is, tells David that if that town wants to hear his music so much, they can come to him instead. David tries to convince Sam that the fans are more important than making out with this groupie, but Sam isn't interested. He tells David that he's a star, and (sadly) that he's a king! He tells David to get out.
David pauses and tells Sam that he is no longer Sam's manager. Sam tells him that managers are a dime a dozen, but stars like himself are born once a century. David tells him that those stars will die out in a short time, which pushes Sam's angry button, and he throws David out.
David
goes home to see his family. His daughter, Nicky, is swimming in their pool. He
tells her that he's no longer working with Sam, and will instead groom a new
star to knock Sam out of the limelight. Nicky looks a bit distressed at this
news, but doesn't say much about it.
David goes for a walk down a street that is amazingly empty, and has all of the streetlights replaced with disco style spotlights. Down the street struts our hero, Jimmy. And I do mean "struts." He's jamming along to the song in his head, and looks like a lunatic to anyone that can't hear this tune. Between pumping his arms like a locomotive and jumping onto and off of the sidewalk, I'd assume that he was quite intoxicated. I guess he is though. Drunk on Disco!
Anyway, David sees this amazing spectacle of... walking, and decides then and there that this guy has what it takes.
We
jump cut from the inspirational walking scene to the interior of Jimmy's house.
David is there with someone else we've not met, and they're trying to talk Jimmy
into starting his grand disco career. Mom comes in with some tea and Jimmy
introduces everyone. Ah, the other guy is hosting a performance. It's all making
sense now.
David tells them all that he trusts Jimmy's talent so much that he's willing to cover any losses incurred should things not go well. This seems to reassure our promoter and our performer, so it looks like the show will go on!
We cut to the next day as Jimmy rehearses. He's dancing to a song about Jesus. Now, I've never heard a disco song about Jesus, but for all I know they're on the charts right now. Jimmy dances his heart out, getting sweatier and shinier as we see shots of churches and statues of various holy figures. By this time I was pretty sure I was hallucinating, but there were far stranger things to come.
