Tell Me O Kkhuda

About the film

Tell Me O Kkhuda (transl. Tell Me, Oh God) is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film written, directed, and produced by Hema Malini, starring Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Farooq Sheikh, Hema Malini, Esha Deol, and Arjan Bajwa. Salman Khan makes a guest appearance. The film was released on 27 October 2011 coinciding with Diwali. It received mixed reviews from critics and was a box-office failure. The music was composed by Pritam with lyrics written 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 American film Mamma Mia!.

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 where Tanya was born. Tanya helps her regain her memory of the incident and to accept her daughter's death. A heartbroken Tanya returns to India to her foster parents.

Box office

Box Office India declared the film a "disaster".

Soundtrack

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

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