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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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