On 1999 movie Taal’s 23rd anniversary on Saturday, actor Anil Kapoor posted a few photographs from the movie’s set. The photographs featured him, Aishwarya Rai and director Subhash Ghai. Posting the photos, Anil recalled that it was his performance in Taal that got him a role in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire.
Posting the photos, Anil penned, “23 years of Taal! I will forever be grateful to have been a part of this iconic movie. In many ways, I was destined to do it, as my role was first offered to Govinda but ultimately came to me. It was Taal that Danny Boyle saw and my performance in it that made him offer me Slumdog Millionaire, I thank my lucky stars for the love and support of the phenomenally talented showman @subhashghai1 saab and for 4 hugely successful milestone films with him.”
Actor Raj Singh Chaudhary wrote, “What an amazing performance sir.” Actor Tisca Chopra commented, “Legend.” One fan says the movie is a ‘masterpiece’ and another commented, ‘best film of all times.’
Taal, musical drama featured Aishwarya, Anil, Akshaye in lead roles and Amrish Puri and Alok Nath in supporting roles. The movie was later dubbed in Tamil and was titled Thaalam. For the movie, Anil Kapoor, AR Rahman, Alka Yagnik and Anand Bakshi each got a Filmfare Award in the year 2000.