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By Joginder Tuteja, October 31, 2001 - 14:59 IST

After Border, Gadar and Indian, Sunny paaji has become the latest epitome of a 'sachcha bharatwaasi'. Riding on the success of these movies, another movie 'Maa Tujhhe Salaam' (MTS) gets ready for release that speaks of Desh-prem. Tabbu plays the love interest of Sunny here that also stars Arbaaz Khan, Ashish Vidyarthi,Sudesh Berry and Mohan Joshi. Action director Tinnu Verma gets behind the camera with MTS which is produced by Mahendra Dhariwal, has music by Sajid Wajid and lyrics by Sameer. MTS is based on Kargil war between India and Pakistan and says something very much to the point in the promos:

"Doodh maangoge to kheer denge
Kashmir maangoge to cheer denge !!! "

Challenge couldn't have been more fierceful than this !!!!

But alas the music of MTS isn't even a fraction impressive as the caption above.

The sole track that one remembers after the album is over is 'Dekhne Ko Tujhko'. It is (yet again) set in a bhangra mode and considering 'Punjab da Puttar' Sunny Deol playing the lead role in the movie, the song will be popular, at least in Punjab, Delhi and UP belt. This song appears twice in the album, where Sonu Nigam once pairs with Bhairvi and then with Sunidhi Chauhan. Both Bhairavi and Sunidhi give their best and Sonu Nigam entertains as always.

'Chhodh Ke Na Jaa Ooh Piya' is a weak song which has an-oft repeated composition depicting 'dard-e-judaai' kind of emotions. In fact the song's style is straight out of T-Series school of music of early 90's when there used to be musicals like 'Lal Dupatta Malmal Ka', 'Aayi Milan Ki Raat' and 'Jeena Teri Gali Mein'. The song is repeated twice, once with Alka Yagnik and once in male version by the new comer Harvinder. Harvinder does have a smooth voice and conveys sorrow and dejection but fails to rise over the weak music.

'Chham Chham' is another dull composition that fails to impress.Even it conveys that 'HEARD BEFORE' feeling, having the shades of 'Subah Se Leke Shaam Tak' from Mohra. Udit Narayan and Kavita Krishnamurthy too do not seem to be much interested in the proceedings around them. 'Oye Ranjhana' is a breezy number by Sunidhi Chauhan with lyrics by Tejpal Kaur and is set in the same mode as Sunidhi's first super hit that established her with a bang in Bollywood - 'Mehboob Mere' from Fiza. By the feel of it, it seems like an item number. Good publicity of this number will be able to decide it's popularity in a more definite manner.

Well there is still someone in the industry who inspite of being 60 plus can still give the likes of Alka Yagnik and Sunidhi Chauhan a good run for their money. Yes, we are talking about Asha Ji who can still exude enough oomph through her vocals even at this age. In fact with 'Kambakth Ishq' from Pyar Tune Kya Kiya, she is a hot contender for most of the popular awards for the best female playback singer. And now she sings 'Sone Ke Jaisi' which is primarily aimed at the front benchers. Although the song isn't great, yet Asha ji's vocals bring it to passable level at least.

The title song 'Maa Tujhhe Salaam' is a full throated song by Shankar Mahadevan and has lyrics by Vicky Sagar. It is a patriotic number and would be able to cause some effect only with the movie. There are dialogues by Sunny talking about 'Deshbhakti' in this song and are delivered in his trademark style. Chants of 'Vande Mataram' begin the song and it ends with the cheers of 'Wahe Guru'.

The duo of Sajid- Wajid have given some real good music for T-Series albums before. Probably a hard core patriotic actioner like 'Maa Tujhhe Salaam' was not the right stage for them where they could display their prime forte i.e romantic soulful numbers.

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