Tell Me O Kkhuda
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHema Malini
Produced byMadan Paliwal[1]
Hema Malini
StarringEsha Deol
Arjan Bajwa
Dharmendra
Vinod Khanna
Rishi Kapoor
Farooq Sheikh
Deepti Naval
Chandan Roy Sanyal
Richa Pallod
Salman Khan (Guest appearance)
CinematographyTribhuvan Babu Sadineni
Music byPritam
Abhijeet Hegdepatil
Production
company
Miraj Entertainment Ltd
Distributed byHema Malini Creations
Release date
  • 27 October 2011 (2011-10-27)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Tell Me O Kkhuda (transl.Tell me, oh god) is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Hema Malini, starring Esha Deol, Arjan Bajwa, Sudhanshu Pandey, Vinod Khanna, Dharmendra, Rishi Kapoor, Farooq Sheikh, Deepti Naval and Chandan Roy Sanyal. Salman Khan makes a guest appearance. It released on 27 October 2011 coinciding with the Diwali festival to mixed reviews at the box office. The music was composed by Pritam and lyrics were by Mayur Puri.

The film bears a resemblance to Malini's first directoral venture Dil Aashna Hai (1992) and is an unofficial remake of the 2008 Hollywood hit Mamma Mia!.[2]

Plot

The film tells the story of a girl named Tanya (Deol) who learns that she was adopted by Colonel Ravi Kapoor and his wife when he rescued her from a burning hospital. This leads Tanya to go on a journey in search of her biological parents.

The first man she visits is the ruler of a patriarchal district in Rajasthan, Abhay Rana Pratap Singh (Khanna), where female infanticide is common. However, it is revealed that Manjuri, brought up as Singh's niece, is his actual daughter. Her nanny had hidden the truth from everyone and even Rana Pratap had not known that his wife had given birth to a baby girl before dying in a fire.

Tanya then travels to Turkey to meet Altaf Zardari (Kapoor). Zardari and his non-Indian wife live a peaceful life, but the wife does not remember losing her baby girl in the fire that demolished the hospital Tanya was born in. Tanya helps her regain her memory about the incident and to accept her daughter's death. A heartbroken Tanya returns to India to her foster parents.

She then embarks on one last mission to find her father, this time to see Tony Castello (Dharmendra), a mafia leader. Initially doubtful of her, he meets up with his ex-flame, Susan (Malini), who is now a nun. Eventually, after a gang fight, Tony accepts Tanya as his daughter and the movie ends with her and her best friend (Bajwa) marrying in a church, with all four of Tanya's fathers walking her down the aisle.

Cast

Production

The film was shot in Mehboob Studio. Most of it was filmed in Turkey, with the Turkish star Meltem Cumbul making a guest appearance. It was promoted by Videocon on the posters. Though the film was to be released on 30 September 2011, it was postponed by a month due to personal incidents of the crew.

Box office

BoxOffice India declared the film a "disaster".[3] The film had poor box office receipts due to its clash with the mega budget Ra.One (another Diwali release).

Soundtrack

Tell Me O Kkhuda
Soundtrack album by
Released10 October 2011 (2011-10-10)
GenreFeature film soundtrack
LabelJunglee Music
Pritam chronology
Mausam
(2011)
Tell Me O Kkhuda
(2011)
Desi Boyz
(2011)

The music of the film was composed by Pritam and the lyrics were written by Mayur Puri.

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsArtist(s)Length
1."Someone Somebody"Mayur PuriSunidhi Chauhan4:24
2."Love You Dad"Mayur PuriAnupam Amod, Aditi Banerjee4:17
3."Morchang"Mayur PuriRajasthani Folk Artists, Shweta Pandit4:20
4."Tell Me O Kkhuda" Sunidhi Chauhan4:54
5."Mile Na Tu" Sunidhi Chauhan, Anupam Amod4:22
6."Janasheen"Mayur PuriShreya Ghoshal5:00
7."Someone Somebody" (Remix)Mayur PuriAnushka Manchanda3:42

References

  1. Nahta, Komal (22 July 2016). "Tell Me O Kkhuda Review". koimoi.com. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  2. Taran Adarsh. "Tell Me O Kkhuda - Movie Review". Bollywood Hungama. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
    - "Hema remaking Mama Mia?". The Times of India. 6 October 2009. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013.
    - "Tell Me Oh Khuda's preview". Bollywood Hungama. 15 July 2011. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
    - "Tell Me O Khuda: Oh for God's sake..." Rediff. 27 October 2011. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  3. "Ra.One Scores Big In Week One New Releases Dull". BoxOffice India. 5 November 2011. Archived from the original on 28 April 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
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