Taal (1999)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Subhash Ghai

Writers:

Sachin Bhowmick (screenplay)
Subhash Ghai (dialogue)

Release Date:

13 August 1999 (India)

Genre:

Musical | Romance

Tagline:

Don't fall .. rise in love.

Plot:

On a sight-seeing road trip of India, U.K. based Manav Mehta meets Mansi, the daughter of a singer, Tarababu...

Plot Keywords:

Showbiz | Product Placement | Rip Off | Beautiful Woman | MTV

Awards:

15 wins

Cast

Anil Kapoor	...	Vikrant Kapoor
Akshaye Khanna	...	Manav Mehta
Aishwarya Rai	...	Mansi
Alok Nath	...	Tara Babu
Amrish Puri	...	Jagmohan Mehta
Sushma Seth	...	Mrs. Mehta
Mita Vasisht	...	Prabha Shankar (as Meeta Vashist)
Saurabh Shukla	...	Bannerjee (as Saurab Shukla)
Jividna Sharma	...	Illa
Tanya Mukherjee	...	Shanam
Supriya Karnik	...	Shakuntala (Shaku)
Prithvi Zutshi	...	Deep Mohan Mehta
Manoj Pahwa
Rajesh Khera	...	Brij Mohan Mehta
Mithilesh Chaturvedi

Also Known As:

Thaalam (India: Tamil title)

Runtime:

UK:179 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi | Tamil

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:U | India:U | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario)

Filming Locations:

CN Tower - 301 Front Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Trivia:

This was the second out of a trilogy of films that Subhash Ghai made which focusing on the Indian NRI abroad, the other two being Pardes (1997) and Yaadein... (2001).

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Bollywood Bound (2001)

Soundtrack:

Ishq Bina

Good Music and Good-looking girl

Early in the film, Akshaye Khanna is shown basically stalking Aishwaria Rai and secretly taking photos of her while she's bathing and undressing, and then hangs all the photos on his wall and sits there and looks at them. So I thought this movie was going to be a "psycho-stalking" movie. But then my wife explained to me that in Indian movies, the standard way of developing a romantic story is to show the man stalking the woman and obsessing over her in a fashion which might, in other cultures, be considered criminal behavior. Armed with this new found knowledge, I was able to enjoy the movie. The music of A.R. Rahman, who appears to carry the burden of creating the music for every one of the 400 movies to come out of Bombay every year, is catchy and the stars look good.