Like his films, the music from Mahesh Manjrekar`s cinema flows fast and furious. To be honest, this gifted filmmaker does not really need songs in his films. Music is more often than not, thrust into this cinema. When he made a musical like Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rehta Hai, he extracted a rather cute music score from Anand Raaj Anand.

But Mr Anand seems to be out of sorts doing tunes for this film about a man`s love for his sibling stricken with cerebral palsy. Going by the sincerity that Manjrekar has invested into the telling of his story, the tunes appear utterly filmi, in more ways than one.

Perhaps life in the chawl of Mumbai, where Tera Mera... is set, is more filmi than our films. That is why we have two Maharashtrian singers, Atul Kale and Bela Shinde pitching in with a boisterous medley of chartbusters in Dum dum diga. Kale returns with a humour-sunnyboy ditty entitled Jumbo jet. This fun song and the Hariharan-Alka Yagnik love ballad Main sochoon have been composed by Manjrekar favourite Rahul Ranade, who did a rather commendable job of creating mood music for the director`s best film to date, Astitva.

Restrain does make a belated entry with two back-to-back love ballads Dil wahi beqaraar hota hai and Tadpati hai tarsati hai. Both are rendered by Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik with the cool and crisp confidence of a chart-friendly duo which knows it can`t go wrong. Don`t let the third Udit-Alka duet Haathon ke lakeeron mein on Side B fool you. It is actually another version of the title song with a new mukhda.

Consumers get hugely turned on by the quantity-for-money theory. When a potential buyer picks up this tape, he or she will see 11 titles on the backflap. But there is no safety in numbers. This album proves it.Apart from the interestingly worded and resourcefully tuned Hariharan-Alka duet Main sochoon, there is nothing remotely fresh about this album.