I want to thank my brother, Dan, for buying me one of the best gifts ever: the compilation CD Bollywood Bloodbath. The disc features twenty-two songs from Hindi horror films, mostly from the ’80s and mostly written by Bappi Lahiri. Presently, my favorite is Lahiri’s schizophrenic “Mere Jaan” from the movie Dahshat:
…although it’s hard to resist the dopey charms of Rajesh Roshan’s “Superman, Superman.”
Since you know you need to own a copy of Bollywood Bloodbath for yourself, here’s where you can purchase it from Amazon.
one of the reasons why 80s is considered the worst decade of indian cinema…
You sure you didn’t mean to write “best”, Shrey? 😉
My favorite horror movie song is “Who beete din yaad hai” from Purana Mandir.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo0yfWNpy2s
The movie song was unknown but in 90’s the remix pop version came and it became sensation.
here’s the remix song.
The camera work in the original video is hilarious. Closeup on a fire; pan the camera five feet to the right to show a woman posing seductively; wait five seconds, then pan back to the fire. OMG, it’s so funny.