The lilting title song, Tu meri mehbooba is the only track that connects immediately – but it abounds in extended phrases of ‘boob’s and ‘doob’s, quite unfortunately, while Khwabon ki rani and Yaar tera shukriya merely rehash the Laxmikant Pyarelal sound with limited Ismail Darbar flourishes. Kuchh kar lo, Achcha to and Dilruba are surprisingly disjoint and dissonant. Babuji shamelessly dips into the composer’s own chartbuster Nimbuda, displaying complete lack of range, even as the qawali, Deewana, is an unnecessary and conventional blast from the past. Mehbooba’s soundtrack is nothing but a mistimed relic – a once promising composer’s once composed soundtrack.
Keywords: Ajay Devgan, Manisha Koirala, Sanjay Dutt
