perhaps the best bollywood cover ever

Classic Bollywood liked to copy American songs with reckless abandon. (Today, they just copy pathetic Casio keyboard beats and rap in “muscle” shirts.) Indeed, I probably heard “Mere Jaisi Hasseena” (Armaan, 1981—so hot) before I heard the song it covered (“When You’re In Love With a Beautiful Woman”, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, 1978).

But this is definitely one of my favorite Bollywood covers: “Tumse Hai Dil Ko”, from Janwaar (1965):

(And that’s only half the actual song. I don’t expect anything less than 6m from Bollywood, and neither should you.)

Comments