His earlier offerings, Dilruba and Alibaba don’t really merit mention. The 1992 album Thanda Thanda Paani put him on the map so to speak. The title track was a copy of Vanilla Ice’s Ice Ice Baby, which we, of course, know as a copy of the iconic Under Pressure from Queen and David Bowie. In the early days of MTV, it was this song – Dil Dhadke (an anthem to stalking and harassment we now recognise) that we had to endure feasted our senses on.
Clearly, this was the creepy stalker phase of his career – the song has lyrics like aage aage ladki peechhe main hoon dewana and some seriously disturbing visuals of a voyeuristic creep peeking into a woman’s bedroom and bathroom through a TV. This was from the inexplicably named album Main Bhi Madonna.
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