Taal is a 1999 Hindi film directed by Subhash Ghai. Taal was an official selection by Roger Ebert for his 2005 Overlooked Film Festival. The film stars Anil Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna, Aishwarya Rai, Amrish Puri and Alok Nath. It was also dubbed in Tamil as Thaalam. It was quite successful overseas, becoming the first Indian film to reach the top 20 on Variety's box office list. Anil Kapoor, A.R. Rahman, and Anand Bakshi each won a Filmfare Award for their work in the film. Manav comes to visit India with his wealthy father Jagmohan Mehta , his aunt and uncle, and his father's employees. In... Chamba he meets Mansi , the beautiful daughter of a spiritual singer named Tara Babu ; 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.
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