/> They are both lords of the ring-tones. Bappi Lahiri and Anu Malik entered the film industry at the same time...and carved very different places in the charts for themselves.

Today after more than three decades in the film industry the two composing wizards from the 1980s have been brought together for the first time in Satish Kaushik's Tere Sang, though they're both quick to explain they're not collaborating.

Huh?

Over to director Satish Kaushik. "We were keen to have Bappi- da do the background score for Tere Sang. He had done a superb job of the background in my co-producer Anupam Kher's Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara. But Bappida has nothing to do with the songs. They're all Anu Malik's songs."

But Anu is under the impression that Bappi-da has no songs to compose in Tere Sang.

Says Anu, "Bappi-da is just doing the film's background score. All the seven songs of Tere Sang have been composed and recorded by me. So the question of sharing the composing credits with Bappi-da doesn't arise.

It just happens nowadays that sometimes due to time constraints the original composer doesn't get time to do the background, hence somebody else is roped in.

Also, for your knowledge the songs are generally composed and then recorded. In this case the director Satishji requested that he'll use certain songs and background music created by me for Tere Sang as part of the background score and I readily agreed because I respect Satishji and also because my daughter Anmol has sung all the songs of the film."

So according to Anu even the background which Bappi Lahiri has done has got elements created by Anu.

Bappida has another story to tell. "I'd never share composing credits with anyone. The other day I was passing the hoardings of Darling and I saw both Himesh Reshammiya and Pritam's name. I'd never be part of a partnerhip like that. In Tere Sang we're very clear that I'm doing the background score. I've also composed a song."

But Anu seems to think all the vocals are strictly by him.

"Bappi-da's song will be played with the opening and end titles," explains director Satish Kaushik.