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Released
2005 · FILM

Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!

“Christmas is a time for friends and family and unexpected visitors.”

Directed by
Mahesh Manjrekar
Written by
Mahesh Manjrekar, Kiran Kotrial
Runtime
132 min
Language
HI
ComedyDramaFamily

Synopsis

Aditya Singh, a compassionate mechanic and the sole employed member of a large family, works diligently to support his siblings, grandmother, and numerous nieces and nephews. When he dies suddenly in a car accident, his family faces an uncertain future. Concerned for their well-being, Aditya persuades Yamraj, the Hindu god of death, to allow him to return—as a ghost—to complete the unfinished matters of his life.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Merzin TavariaShot by Vijay Kumar AroraScored by Himesh Reshammiya

Box Office

2005 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$4.3M

Budget$2.7M
Worldwide gross$4.3M
break-even (2.5×)

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