Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!

Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!
File:Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! poster.jpg Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Mahesh Manjrekar
Produced by	Sangeetha Ahir
Written by	Mahesh Manjrekar Kiran Kotrial
Starring	Shahid Kapoor Amrita Rao Sanjay Dutt Arshad Warsi Mohnish Bahl Prem Chopra Sharat Saxena
Music by	Himesh Reshammiya Ajay-Atul
Cinematography	Vijay Arora Dennys Ilic
Edited by	Merzin Tavaria
Production company	Mangalmurti Films
Distributed by	Disney UTV
Release date	23 December 2005 (2005-12-23)
Running time	132 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹12 crore
Box office	₹19 crore

Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! (Wow! That's what life should be like!) is a 2005 Indian Hindi fantasy comedy-drama film written and directed by Mahesh Manjrekar and produced by Sangeetha Ahir, starring Shahid Kapoor, Amrita Rao, Sanjay Dutt, and Arshad Warsi in the lead roles. It was released on 23 December 2005. It is the first Indian film to be shot in high definition (HD).

This film draws inspiration from the films – Mudhal Thethi, It's a Wonderful Life, Naukri, Ghost and Bruce Almighty.

Plot

Aditya Verma, fondly called Adi Chachu or Adi Uncle (Shahid Kapoor) by the children of his brothers (Adi has two brothers, one died in a plane crash along with his wife), lives in a large mansion in Mumbai with his other brother (Mohnish Bahl), who has a drinking problem, sister-in-law, sister and grandmother. He is the only one working in the family. He falls in love with a tuition teacher, Priya (Amrita Rao). They confess their feelings to each other and plan to get married. However, while going to work to attend an important meeting, Adi is run over by a truck to save Parth (Parth Dave) and dies. In the afterlife, he meets the Hindu god of death, Yama (Sanjay Dutt), a kind-hearted, emotional deity with designer clothes and a red car. On the saying of Adi, Yamraj allows Adi to go back to Earth as a ghost to stop his evil uncle (Prem Chopra), who wants to sell Adi's mansion to industrialist Hirachand (Sharat Saxena). Adi enlists the aid of Shakti, a little boy who was being taken with Adi to heaven, to save his family home. They then reach Earth, but no one can listen, see and feel them. They then meet Fakira Bhai B.P.C.M (Arshad Warsi), who gives them the power to touch humans as before they were not able to, then for his family, Yamraj comes and gives him the ability to see his family for a couple of minutes before he takes the both of them back—Shakti and Adi. When Adi's family sees Adi, they ask Yamraj to take them as well, as they don't want to live without Adi. Yamraj gets emotional and leaves him to stay with his family and the little boy Shakti also. When the family members wake up, they think that this was a bad dream, but only Adi and Shakti know that they died and came back to life. A film actor and Yamraj's lookalike, Sanjay Dutt, offers to buy Adi's property, but Adi refuses to sell his property and lives happily with Priya and his family.

Cast

• Shahid Kapoor as Aditya Verma (Adi Chachu)
• Amrita Rao as Piya, Aditya’s love interest
• Sanjay Dutt as Yama and himself
• Arshad Warsi as Fakira B.P.C.M
• Prem Chopra as Harish
• Adil Badshah as Shakti
• Shweta Basu Prasad as Shweta
• Vivek Shauq as Vishal Sharma
• Upasna Singh as Kitty Sharma, Vishal’s wife
• Suhasini Mulay as Dadi
• Sharat Saxena as Hirachand
• Mohnish Bahl as Sunil Verma
• Rajat Bedi as Bunky
• Palak Jain as Palak
• Aman Verma as Magic show presenter
• Radhika Apte as Anjali
• Smita Jaykar as Piya's mother
• Parth Dave as Parth
• Ishaan Khatter as Ishaan
• Satya Manjrekar as Satya
• Ekta Sohini as Sunita
• Tanvi Hegde as Tanvi
• Syed Hussain Haider Abidi as Sunny
• Shivangi Kale as Shivangi
• Darshil Mashru as Chandu
• Sagar Kabbur as Vikram “Vicky”, Aditya’s friend
• Sanjeeda Sheikh as an item number in "Teri Yaad Yaad"
• Aamir Dalvi as Rohit, Anjali's fiancé.

Soundtrack

Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!
Soundtrack album by Himesh Reshammiya
Released	2005
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Language	Hindi
Label	Tips Music
Himesh Reshammiya chronology
Kyon Ki (2005) Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! (2005) Anjaane (2005)

#	Title	Singer(s)	Lyrics	Composer
1	"Chaahenge Tumhe"	Udit Narayan, Shreya Ghoshal	Sameer	Himesh Reshammiya
2	"Dil Ke Maare Hai"	Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik	Sameer	Himesh Reshammiya
3	"Koi Aap Jaisa"	Kunal Ganjawala, Madhushree	Sameer	Himesh Reshammiya
4	"Pyaar Mein Tere"	Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal	Sameer	Himesh Reshammiya
5	"Hanuman Chalisa"	Shankar Mahadevan, Ajay Gogavale	Sameer	Ajay Atul
6	"Teri Yaad Yaad"	K.K., Jayesh Gandhi	Sameer	Himesh Reshammiya

External links

• Vaah! Life Ho To Aisi on IMDb