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->''Rise in love!''

''Taal'' is a 1999 Bollywood musical starring Creator/AishwaryaRai, Creator/AkshayeKhanna, and Creator/AnilKapoor.

Mansi (Rai) is the daughter of Tarababu, a poor but influential singer and musician. Manav (Khanna) is the eldest son and heir of the Mehtas, a wealthy and Westernized family. After seeing Mansi while photographing India, which he is visiting for the first time, Manav [[StalkingIsLove follows her around and photographs her.]] When Manav is caught and Tarababu confronts the Mehtas, they take the opportunity to use his influence on the local politicians to help them secure a land deal, buttering him up while secretly looking down on him for being poor.

After Mansi and her father are horribly snubbed while paying them a visit, Mansi [[ItMakesSenseInContext becomes a famous pop star]] and starts a relationship with her agent (Kapoor). Will she choose her first love or her newfound fame and fortune?

Was chosen by Creator/RogerEbert as one of his top Overlooked Films, and was the first Hindi film to make the top 20 on Variety's box office list. Its soundtrack, of course, mainly comprises FilmiMusic.
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!!This film provides examples of:

* AlmostKiss: During a yoga lesson.
* AntiVillain: Vikrant. He's motivated more by money than anything else, but he does genuinely love Mansi, and [[spoiler: is willing to let her go if it makes her happy.]]
* CoolOldLady: Manav's grandma.
* CountryMouse: Mansi and her entire family.
* DaddysGirl: Mansi. "Every norm of society I will break, but I will never leave my father's house."
* DarkReprise: Kapoor's remixes of Tarababu's music.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Mansi, to Manav. Later re-frosts [[spoiler: during the confrontation between their families.]]
* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Averted. Kapoor "remixes" Tarababu's music and makes a profit off selling it to a Western audience, but he hires Tarababu legitimately to write music for him and hires Mansi as a singer.
* DramaticNecklaceRemoval: When Mansi breaks up with Manav.
* DramaticShattering: Deconstructed and lampshaded - Manav's point is seven times more valid than his uncle's because he broke seven glasses compared to his one.
* DramaticThunder: When Mansi [[spoiler: accepts Vikrant's bangle as an offer of marriage.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: ''Manav.'' [[spoiler: The guy gets ''burned in a fire'' trying to save a scarf.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Vikrant is duplicitous, makes a fortune off of selling other people's music, doesn't believe in charity work, and has ridiculous stipulations in his contracts... but he turns down a lucrative offer for Mansi to be the face for a bra ad campaign, [[MyGirlIsNotASlut because it would hurt her reputation.]]
* EvilMatriarch: Not the female head of the family (that honor goes to Manav's grandma), but his aunt Shakuntala fits the rest of the bill.
* [[spoiler: [[FirstGirlWins First Guy Wins]]]]
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When the priest of Shiva comes to bless Mansi's wedding, you can distinctly see several mascots dancing in the background, including (bizarrely) [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Michelangelo.]]
* GratuitousEnglish: Averted. Manav and his family alternate between English and Hindi, and Manav specifically is mentioned to have been born and raised in London.
* IndirectKiss: Possibly the only way drinking Coke can be erotic.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler: Vikrant.]]
* IWillWaitForYou: Manav.
* {{Jerkass}}: Manav's father. Becomes JerkWithAHeartOfGold by the end of the movie.
** Vikrant tries ''hard'' to be this. But he is also JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Manav sees her silhouette in a photograph and falls in love with her.
* LoveTriangle: Mansi definitely is in love with Manav, and he's in love with her, but she puts him aside after his family insults hers and starts a relationship with Vikrant.
* PairTheSpares: Mansi's aunt and Bannerjee.
* PapaWolf: Tarababu. You do ''not'' stalk or insult his little girl. And conversely...
* ParentsInDistress: ...you do not insult Mansi's dad.
* PortmanteauCoupleName: InUniverse, it is Manavsi.
* ProductPlacement: It is very obvious Coca-Cola sponsored the movie.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Manav's father and grandma.
* RescueRomance: Mansi and her cousins try to rescue Manav while he's falling off a cliff, and then Manav saves Mansi when she falls down after him.
* RichBitch: All of Manav's aunts.
* SadBollywoodWedding: [[spoiler: Averted - Mansi isn't in love with Vikrant, but she isn't sad, she's just apathetic.]]
* StalkingIsLove: Manav and Mansi's relationship starts with him taking photos of her in different public places, including while she bathes [[WetSariScene dressed in a sari]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Inverted. Vikrant tells Mansi [[spoiler: why she should go to Manav]] by listing all the things he despises about himself.
* ThisIsReality: Manav tells Mansi that yes, [[TypeCaste their situation]] is indeed like that of a Hindi film, but this is real life, and he would never leave her.
* TypeCaste: Not as obvious, since it's more about economic standing and Westernization rather than caste specifically, but it's subtly there.
* WetSariScene: During the eponymous song "Taal Se Taal."
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