Tarak

<p>Tarak meets Meera who falls for him. Later he too, reciprocates it. But one day, she challenges him to live without her for two months – while no one should learn about them. If he doesn’t fall for others in that time, she will rebelieve him. He goes back to India to meet his grandfather, also Tarakram. Surprisingly his family fixes his marriage with Sneha who lives with them. Tarak must accept this because his grandfather would die soon. He tells Sneha about Meera and she accepts his decision. They then visit Meera. There they see that Meera is affected with cancer and will be dying soon. She had challenged him so that he would not know about her disease. She also gets her father remarried so that after her death, he would not feel lonely. Tarak and Sneha get emotional at this. Meera dies in the arms of Tarak. Tarak and Sneha return to India. Tarak says that he cannot marry her. So his family plans that Tarak will act like tying the Mangalsutra and Sneha’s mother would tie it. While tying Tarak remembers Meera’s words, “Other’s happiness is important than ours”. He feels a drop of tear fall on his hand, which is from the eyes of Sneha’s mother. To everybody’s surprise, Tarak himself ties the knot. Everybody is happy upon seeing this. The film ends with Tarak, Sneha and Meera (Tarak’s daughter) visiting Meera’s burial place and making a video call to the family; his grandfather is alive because of his desire to see his great-granddaughter’s wedding. In November 2016, it was reported that the official launch for the Darshan’s 49th venture with director Prakash would begin on 9 December 2016. Prakash, who was busy in the pre-production work, had already finalised the main technicians for the film. His brother-in-law Dushyanth who had earlier produced and was roped in to produce the film. Since Darshan was involved in the shoot for his previous venture, , the team made the elaborate arrangements for the film to officially begin. The second schedule of the shoot took place in Malaysia. Following this, for some of the songs shoot, the unit moved to Switzerland and Italy. After having worked with successful stars like , and , Prakash had planned to work with Darshan and approached him with a new family entertainer script for which the actor readily agreed. His brother-in-law, K. S. Dushyanth, was ready to finance the project for the third time after and . Actress was approached to play one of the two female leads in the project. Newcomer was selected to play the second female lead role even before the release of her debut film, . Citing dates issues, Rashmika opted out from the project and was replaced in her place. Veteran actors and were selected to play the parent roles. has composed the songs and the soundtrack. Soundtrack consists of 6 songs. , and Hari Santhosh have penned the lyrics. The first look of the film was released on 30 March 2017 and the film was released on 29 September 2017. A. Sharadhaa of rated the film 3.5/5 stars and wrote, “The film is slow in parts and the second half is where the drama sets in. This moving story is well told but the comedy could have been better handled. There are times when a director tailors a film for a star but, in Tarak, Darshan remains a director’s actor.” Sunayana Suresh of gave the film 3/5 stars and wrote, “This film might not be the regular masala fare that Darshan fans are used to, but the sentiments and story are something different for them, which is definitely worth a watch. It could have had some deft editing to make it a more crisp tale, but that can be pardoned since there is no excessive jingoism”. Shyam Prasad S. of gave it 2.5/5 stars and wrote, ” could have been a much better film with the same story only if the scenes were crafted and presented convincingly. Except for a scene in the first half and a few towards the end of the film, it does not happen. There are also some unnecessary and silly scenes stuffed into the film. Each of these involves Kuri Pratap. The comedy track is unfit in any film.” Shashiprasad S. M. of wrote, “The first half of is just an ‘International show’ which barely takes off until post interval. Further, there is hardly any excitement in it […] Nothing great or new but a watchable family drama.” Karthik Keramalu of wrote, ” works well in parts because of the grandfather-grandson story, but should ideally have been edited to cut out all the unnecessary bits around this.”</p>