Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! (2005)

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Director:

Mahesh Manjrekar

Writers:

Mahesh Manjrekar (story)
Kiran Kotrial (dialogue)

Release Date:

23 December 2005 (India)

Genre:

Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance

Tagline:

Christmas is a time for friends and family And unexpected visitors

Plot:

Adi Chachu faces a dilemma - and it's a big one! What if YOU were told by the God of Death himself you had only 15 minutes of life left? What would YOU do?!

Plot Keywords:

Ghost | Afterlife | Supernatural Power | Invisibility | Cloud

Cast

Shahid Kapoor	...	Aditya "Adi Chachu"
Amrita Rao	...	Priya
Sanjay Dutt	...	Yamaraj M.A.
Arshad Warsi	...	Fakira B.P.C.M.
Satya Manjrekar
Suhasini Mulay	...	Dadi
Prem Chopra
Sharat Saxena	...	Hirachand
Mohnish Bahl	...	Sunil (as Mohnish Behl)
Ektaa Bahl	...	Sunita (as Ektaa Behl)
Vivek Shaq	...	Mr. . Vishal Sharma (as Vishal Shauq)
Upasna Singh	...	Mrs. . Sharma
Rajat Bedi	...	Punky
Shweta Prasad
Ishaan Khattar	...	Ishaan
Parth Dave	...	Parth
Tanvi Hegde
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Radhika Apte	...	Anjali
Adil Badshah	...	Shakti
Smita Jaykar	...	Priya's mother
Sagar Kabbur	...	Vikram
Aman Verma	...	Magic Show presenter

Directed by
Mahesh Manjrekar

Writing credits
Mahesh Manjrekar		(story and screenplay)
Kiran Kotrial		(dialogue)

Produced by
Sangeetha Ahir	....	producer

Original Music by
Salim Merchant
Suleiman Merchant
Himesh Reshammiya

Cinematography by
Vijay Kumar Arora		(as Vijay Arora)
Dennys Ilic

Film Editing by
Merzin Tavaria

Art Direction by
Nitish Roy

Art Department
Udai Prakash Singh	....	assistant art director

Sound Department
Leslie Fernandes	....	sound mixer
Jayant Haldar	....	assistant sound mixing engineer
Rajendra Hegde	....	sound mixer
Nabiulla Khan	....	boom operator

Visual Effects by
Arumugam Aravindan	....	motion control camera operator
Mahesh Baria	....	digital compositor
Vishal Bengare	....	digital compositor: prime focus
Goolzar Buchia	....	3d artist: generalist
Chetan Gaur	....	digital compositor
Vivek Gaur	....	compositor: prime focus
Bhaskar Joyoti Goswami	....	digital compositor
Gaurav Gupta	....	visual effects
Rohinton Irani	....	visual effects
Pankaj Kalbende	....	digital compositor
Sandeep Kamal	....	visual effects supervisor
Anand Nayak	....	3D artist
Prasad Patel	....	roto artist
Bharat Patil	....	digital compositor
Susheel Peris	....	digital compositor
Reupal D. Rawal	....	lead compositor
Suryapal Rawat	....	smoke artist
Ranadheer Reddy	....	digital compositor
Kaushal Shah	....	digital compositor
Tushar Shah	....	3D sequence lead
Tushar Shah	....	lead artist
Tushar Shah	....	senior 3D artist
Deepak Shrivastav	....	digital compositor
Raghvendra Shrivastava	....	digital compositor
Yatin Tamhane	....	digital compositor (visual effects)
Merzin Tavaria	....	visual effects supervisor
Prashant Thakur	....	digital compositor
Jitendra Vaghani	....	digital compositor

Stunts
Mahendra Verma	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Asit Biswas	....	assistant camera
Dennys Ilic	....	camera operator
Rajeev Shrivastava	....	director of photography: second unit (as Rajeev Shrivastav)

Editorial Department
Rohan Desai	....	digital intermediate supervisor
Srinivas Mamidi	....	digital intermediate colorist

Music Department
John Stewart Eduri	....	engineer: score (as John Stewart)
Kunal Ganjawala	....	playback singer
Aamir Shaikh	....	music recordist
Sandeep Shirodkar	....	additional background music

Other crew
Suleman Mobhani	....	consultant: internet

Other Companies

• IndiaFM.com  official website design
• Seek Red  publicity creatives
• Tips Cassettes & Records Co.  soundtrack

Also Known As:

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

UK:PG

Trivia:

This is the first Indian film to be shot on a high definition (HD) format.

Quotes:

Yamaraj M.A.:[explaining his makeover] Times have changed... it's 2005!

Movie Connections:

References Ghost (1990)

Soundtrack:

Teri Yaad Yaad

What was Mahesh Manjaraker doing?

I like Mahesh Manjaraker's movies. Viruddh for example was so well made, I went expecting at least a decent movie. But for me this was a terrible waste of time. This movie was torturous at best.

But of course, if you have liked Main Hoon Na, you probably would like this one too. There are some nice visual effects but they are used out of context. The story is confused. It has got elements copied from Sound of Music, Ghost, Bruce Almighty and also from Hindi movies like: Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke and Brahmchari. But there is no blend.Characters doing anything at times and the story going in every direction.

This movie, had some interesting parts and if it was properly edited, could have saved us from a lot of torture.