![]() Secondly, what has stayed with me is how tender it is. The music (both the songs and the background score) is amazing and it really gives the film a very special mood and style. ![]() The dance sequences, though very traditional, are head and shoulders over what you see in most 90s movies. The mountain scenery is practically one of the characters in the movie and it is stunning. Then again it’s the first Bollywood film ever to break into the top 20 in the US box office, so perhaps I should not have set my expectations so low! On top of that, there are the low budgets of that era, which really effect production quality.įortunately, Taal is a much better film than I anticipated. There’s always the worry that it’ll be too soppy, take itself too seriously or the conservative treatment of gender roles will annoy me too much. Whenever I consider watching a Bollywood film from the 90s I’m always a bit wary, even more so when it’s a straight out romance like this one is. ![]() Plot: A love story between a rich London-born Indian and a girl from a small Indian village in the mountains. Bechdel Test: I’m going with 2 out of 3, but you could try arguing 3 out of 3Ĭast: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Akshaye Khanna, Anil Kapoor, Amrish Puri, Alok Nath, Sushma Seth
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