धन पिशाची

Dhana Pisaachi is the villain's leitmotif in Jatadhara (November 7, 2025), a mythological thriller set at the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala. Composed and written by Samira Koppikar and sung by Madhubanti Bagchi — known for her classical-adjacent Bengali singing — the song characterises Dhanapisachini, the supernatural entity of greed played by Sonakshi Sinha. At 3:58, it is the darkest, most atmospheric track on the soundtrack, deploying strings and synthesizer to create a sense of seductive menace.

Samira Koppikar builds Dhana Pisaachi around a string motif that repeats and evolves, suggesting obsession — the defining quality of Dhanapisachini. Madhubanti Bagchi's voice has a quality rare in contemporary film music: a classical depth that makes the ornamental passages feel earned rather than decorative. The synthesizer underpinning keeps the track rooted in the supernatural register, preventing it from becoming purely classical.

Samira Koppikar's lyric personifies wealth as a possessing spirit — Dhanapisachini is not a villain who chose greed but a spirit who IS greed. The song speaks in the first person from this entity's perspective, making it seductively self-justifying.

Director Venkat Kalyan and co-director Abhishek Jaiswal cast Sonakshi Sinha as Dhanapisachini specifically because her screen presence — formidable and magnetic — suited a character who must be both terrifying and alluring. Samira Koppikar's score for the character runs through the entire film as a motif.

Dhana Pisaachi is among the rare 2025 villain songs to use a classically trained vocalist. Madhubanti Bagchi's contribution elevates the song beyond the typical supernatural thriller leitmotif.