![]() However, these texts serve as an appropriate departure point to explore the role of amateur online media in contemporary post-Soviet culture. The reappearance of Disco Dancer songs is by no means a uniquely Russian phenomenon. Uploading his performances on media-streaming hosts under the name Tajik Jimmy, Allaberiev achieved notoriety, parlaying his online success into live concert performances in Moscow and St Petersburg. More than twenty years later, Baimurat Allaberiev, a guest worker from Tajikistan, has enacted this plot by performing film songs from Disco Dancer. Anil moves to the city, is discovered by an agent, and is branded as the disco star Jimmy. ![]() The Indian film Disco Dancer (Subhash, 1982), which was wildly popular in the Soviet Union in 1984, tells the success story of Anil, a destitute child who dreams of fame. ![]()
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