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to her (especially considering I haven't thought very much of her acting in roles she's taken on recent years).

I hadn't seen Akshay Khanna in many films before I saw him in this and found him to carry his role off quite plausibly. I found I disliked his character through much of the film as his behavior towards the woman he supposedly loved so much was rather incredible to say the least; insulting her father and her and then pining because he lost the girl he loves. I know he was just following the script but it was quite difficult to stomach that one minute you insult the father of the woman you love without knowing the full situation and the next minute you spend what seems like eternity yearning for the loss of your love. I felt like slapping his character and telling him to grow up. But that just shows he played the part very credibly to me. One thing which was difficult to believe was that he was supposed to be playing a 21 year old although he was about 24 at the time, he looked much older!

Anil Kapoor plays the arrogant musical director/producer who takes Mansi under his wing and makes her a star with zest. I've been a fan of Kapoor for quite a while, I really enjoy the way he handles roles generally and his role in Taal was no disappointment one sees his character taking on this nave young girl and slowly turning her into a star but not suffering fools gladly he scolds her when she goes wrong but you see him gradually falling in love with her and it seems a natural progression for his character without seeming seedy or casting couch behavior. Akok Nath was very believable in his role as Mansi's gentle and spiritual father who is worried about the influence these city folk will have on his daughter and rightly so. Alok Nath generally plays quite similar roles and I guess he's been typecast in recent years. He just has that nice face. I can't go without mentioning Supriya Karnik who plays Manav's vampy aunt a role that I've seen her in quite a few films now. Poor woman she just comes across as the eternal nasty piece of work aunt or mother; e.g. she played Shilpa Shetty's ghastly mother in Shaadi Karke Phas Gaya Yaar and it was pretty much the same role as she played in Taal and a very similar role in Khel too.

Amrish Puri just thrives on roles like the one he played in Taal the arrogant father of a rather childish but also arrogant in his own way young man and again shows that in India people who have money think they're better than

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