Taal (film)

Infobox_Film
name = Taal


image_size=150| imdb_id = 0152836
writer = Sachin Bhowmick (screenplay)
Subhash Ghai (Story)
starring = Aishwarya Rai
Anil Kapoor
Akshaye Khanna
Alok Nath
Amrish Puri | [Kajal!] director = Subhash Ghai
producer = Rajoo Farouqui, Subhash Ghai
distributor =
released = August 23, 1999
runtime = 179 min
language = Hindi
music = A. R. Rahman
budget = hi

"Taal" (Hindi: ताल, Urdu: تال) is a 1999 Hindi Bollywood film directed by Subhash Ghai. "Taal" was an official selection by Roger Ebert of his 2005 Most Under Appreciated Film Festival. The film stars Anil Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna, Aishwarya Rai, Amrish Puri and Alok Nath. It was also dubbed in Tamil as "Taalam".

Synopsis

Manav (Akshaye Khanna) comes to visit India with his wealthy, infamous father Jagmohan Mehta (Amrish Puri), his aunt and uncle, and his father's employees. In Chamba he meets Mansi (Aishwarya Rai), the beautiful daughter of a spiritual singer named Tara Babu (Alok Nath); their families meet, and Jagmohan and Tara Babu become acquainted and friendly toward each other. Manav and Mansi fall in love, but when Jagmohan learns of this he packs the family up and moves them to their house in Mumbai, with the excuse that Mansi and her father are of low social status. However, he is nice to Tara Babu's face and invites him to come and stay with him and Mumbai if he, Tara Babu, ever happens to be travelling there. Mansi is distressed by Manav's departure but he assures her that he will not abandon her and that everything will be fine. She gives Manav his scarf which she modified, making it say "Manavsi", a mixture of their names.

When Tara Babu learns of Manav and Mansi's affair he is at first angry but soon agrees to travel to Mumbai to visit his younger sister Prabha and to meet Manav's family. Instead they are insulted by Jagmohan's sister-in-law, brother, and the employees and endure hostile treatment. They were forced to sit and wait outside for 9 hours before being invited into the house, were forced to sit on a bench near a guard dog's cage, and were told that they should have made an appointment before coming to visit. When Jagmohan finally arrives at the scene, he too insults Tara Babu, which results in Tara Babu's slapping him across the face. Manav also arrives, and he rudely reprimands Tara Babu as well. Meanwhile Mansi, after witnessing Manav shout at her father, makes it clear to Manav that she wants nothing to do with him anymore. She and her father then leave the Mehta household deeply hurt and grieved.

Mansi soon meets Vikrant Kapoor (Anil Kapoor), a successful and famous music producer/director, who happens to be a fan of Tara Babu's work. With the encouragement of her aunt Pradha, she arranges a three-year contract with Vikrant, and Mansi performs dance numbers and remixes of Tara Babu's songs as well as some of Vikrant's productions. She wins awards and becomes a sensation in India. In the meantime Vikrant starts to fall in love with Mansi. Matters are further complicated when Manav arrives to apologize to Mansi for what he and his family did, as she rejects him out of grief for how he treated her father. However, he tells her that he knows she still loves him, and that he will wait for her. Vikrant learns of what happened between Manav and Mansi, but he chooses to ignore it. He has a few encounters with Manav but takes them lightly.

Vikrant proposes to Mansi soon afterwards, and her father and aunt encourage her to accept it, with the hope that it will help her forget about Manav. She accepts the proposal even though she is not in love with Vikrant. After winning an International MTV Award in Canada, she comes back to India to prepare for the marriage. In the meantime Jagmohan and Tara Babu patch things up after Jagmohan realizes his mistake.

On the day of the marriage Manav arrives and tells Mansi that by marrying Vikrant when she loves Manav she is deceiving both him and herself, and that marriage is not a contract but a union of two souls; he reminds her that he loves her and will never stop waiting for her. Jagmohan also comes to the wedding with Manav and Tara Babu. Vikrant soon realizes, after seeing Mansi's reaction to seeing Manav, that she loves Manav. He assures her that the three of them can still be friends, and urges her to run to Manav. Jagmohan and Tara Babu give their blessings, and Manav and Mansi embrace. One of the last scenes shows everyone taking a family picture at the Mehta household after the wedding.This was all kajal idea.

Cast

* Anil Kapoor ... Vikrant Singh
* Akshaye Khanna ... Manav
* Aishwarya Rai ... Mansi
* Amrish Puri ... Jagmohan Mehta
* Alok Nath ... Tara Babu
* Shahid Kapoor...Background Dancer
* Kajal ... Kajal

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Awards

* Anil Kapoor won many awards for his role as Vikrant Kapoor (the role went to him after Govinda) including Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award, IIFA Best Supporting Actor Award, Zee Cine Best Supporting Actor Award, and Star Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor Award.

Music

A highlight of the movie was the music, which some considered to be among the best ever composed for Indian cinema. The album covers the diverse genres embedded in the movie in a way that they do not seem arbitrary or extraneous. The music album sales broke all previous records and meant serious money for the first time.

Soundtrack listing:

Taal Se Taal Mila
Sung by Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik and Chorus
Composed by A. R. Rahman
Lyrics by Anand Bakshi

Taal Se Taal Mila
(Modern Remix)
Sung by Hariharan and Sukhwinder Singh
Composed by A. R. Rahman
Lyrics by Anand Bakshi

Kahin Aag Lage
Sung by Asha Bhosle, Aditya Narayan and Richa Sharma
Composed by A. R. Rahman
Lyrics by Anand Bakshi

Ramta Jogi
Sung by Sukhwinder Singh and Alka Yagnik
Composed by A. R. Rahman
Lyrics by Anand Bakshi

Ni Main Samajh Gayee
Sung by Richa Sharma and Sukhwinder Singh
Composed by A. R. Rahman
Lyrics by Anand Bakshi

Nahin Saamne Tu
Sung by Hariharan and Sukhwinder Singh
Composed by A. R. Rahman
Lyrics by Anand Bakshi

Ishq Bina
Sung by Sujatha Mohan, Anuradha Sriram, Sonu Nigam and A.R. Rahman
Composed by A. R. Rahman
Lyrics by Anand Bakshi

Kya Dekh Rahe Ho Tum
Sung by Madhushree and Vaishali
Composed by A. R. Rahman
Lyrics by Anand Bakshi

External links

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* [http://www.ebertfest.com/seven/taal.htm Roger Ebert on "Taal"]