Bollywood action drama, Zakhm, written and directed by Mahesh Bhatt was released on December 15, 1998. The movie starred Ajay Devgan and Pooja Bhatt in lead roles while Sonali Bendre, Kunal Khemu, Nagarjuna, Namrata Dhamija, Ashutosh rana, Sharat Saxena, Akshay Anand and Avtar Gill also played significant characters in the film. The melodious music of the movie was composed by the music director M. M. Khan while the songs were rendered by Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan, K. S. Chitra, Alka Yagnik and M. M. Kareem.

The movie starts with a famous singer named Ajay Desai ( Ajay Devgan ), who lives alongwith his widowed mother, Mrs. Desai ( Pooja Bhatt ), his wife, Sonia ( Sonali Bendre ) and a younger brother, Anand ( Akshay Anand ). Anand works in an organization run by guy named Subodh Malgaonkar ( Ashutosh Rana ). Ajay and his family’s life gets upturned when some militants demolish the Babri Masjid. This incident enrages the muslim comuunity that leads to riots everywhere.

Ajay’s wife Sonia wants to leave India immediately as she is pregnant with his child and does not wants to give birth to her child in these conditions. Ajay’s mother is attacked by the rioters and ends up killing her alongwith some other persons. This enrages Anand and he starts attacking the muslim guys he meets. Condition becomes even worse, when Subodh Malgaonkar puts pressure on Ajay for cremating his mother according to Hindu rites. But there is a secret about Ajay’s mother which only he knows?

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Hum yahan tum taha dil jawaan yeh sama lekin kahan
2. Tum aaye to aaya mujhe yaad gali mein aaj chand nikla
3. Maa ne kaha
4. Raat saari bekarari mein guzari
5. Padh likh le