Maa Tujhhe Salaam

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Maa Tujhhe Salaam

Credits
Producer/s:	Mahendra Dhariwal
Director:	Tinu Verma
Cast:	Sunny Deol, Tinu Verma, Arbaaz Khan, Tabu, Rajat Bedi, Prithvi, Avtar Gill, Rana Jung Bahadur, Anang Desai, Deep Dhillon, Razzak Khan, Anil Nagrath, Sheela Sharma, Jeetu Verma, Sharat Saxena, Ali Khan and Sudesh Berry
Music:	Sajid-Wajid
Lyrics:	Sameer, Tejpal Kaur & Vicky Nagar

Tinu Verma makes his directorial debut with 'Maa Tujhhe Salaam', a film, which tries to make full use of India, Pakistan's current war like situation. Also, the fact that Sunny Deol's recent films were all based on national flavour helped Tinu Varma market the film as a patroitic one.

As for the plot, which is set in the beautiful valleys and ravines of Kashmir - Sunny Deol, who plays Major Pratap Singh, is a brave and fearless Indian Military officer who successfully aborts a terrorist infiltration attempt into India by the neighbouring enemy country.

Tinu Verma himself plays the bad man as Lala, who is an agent of the enemy country, helps infiltration of terrorists and ammunition into India.

Arbaaz Khan plays Albaksh, an illiterate, who works like a slave for Lala, unaware of Lala's anti-national activities. Captain Sonia (Tabu), who also is Major Pratap Singh's lady love in the movie, plays a military intelligence officer. Sonia gets to know of Lala's anti-national activities and she informs the military of it. The military authorities order Major Pratap to go to Zhonabad (where Lala is based) and keep an eye on Lala.

Does Albaksh find out about Lala's dishonourable activities? What does Lala do to help the enemy country? How does Major Pratap Singh save the day? What role does Albaksh play in all this? The movie is all about this.

As a director Tinu Verma's does an average job of it. Action seens are his forte and it shows through out the film. If the scripts was any good, I guess he could have done a better job.

One surprise of the film is Arbaaz Khan who shows a fresh intensity playing Albaksh. Besides his finely worked-out beefcake physique that makes him a good choice for the role, Arbaaz’s emotive range seems to have broadened considerably.

Sunny lives up to his 'rave and rant' Indian image. Tabu takes a break from histrionics and even does an 'item' number for the terrorists. Arbaaz as Albaksh delivers a sincere performance. All in all, yet another celluloid attempt to capitalise on the Indo-Pak problem.