The Disco Dancer of Bollywood, Mithun Chakraborty is an Indian film actor, singer, and producer. He made his Bollywood debut in the movie Mrigayaa in the year 1976, and for this movie, he won his first National Film Award. He is known for the role of Jimmy in the film Disco Dancer in the year 1982. A comic book named Jimmy Zhingchak has been made, based on Chakraborty. He got married to Yogita Bali in the year 1979. He has 4 children.
He did many Bollywood movies and has achieved many awards for his hard work. He has a great fan following and people love him for his acting. He has also worked in regional movies such as Bengali movies. He made his Bengali cinema debut with Arabinda Mukhopadhyay’s film Nadi Theke Sagare in the year 1978.
He then entered into television and after the success of the Bengali competitive dance reality show Dance Bangla Dance, Chakraborty developed the concept of Dance India Dance, an Indian dance competition show on ZEE TV. It was India’s largest dance-based reality show. This show gave a platform to all the dancers to get a chance to perform. The judges of the show were Terence Lewis, Remo D’souza and Geeta Kapoor. Mithun Chakraborty was the head judge of this show. Later on, many seasons of this show came up and Chakraborty was also the Grandmaster of Dance India Dance Little Masters.
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