# Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice (1989)

Released 1989-05-26

Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice is a 1989 film. Julian Sands and Suresh Oberoi appear in it.

Cast: Julian Sands as Father Daniel Mahoney, Suresh Oberoi as Ranjit

## Storyline
In this unusual feature, Manika is a girl born in a Catholic family in a south Indian fishing village is convinced that she has recently had a former life as a Brahman wife in Nepal. Her parish priest, Father Daniel is under orders to convince her otherwise, as reincarnation does not accord with official Catholic doctrine. Instead, he agrees to journey with her to the site of her dreams of a previous life. Once there, they discover that all is just as she had dreamed it, and her former husband has remarried despite promising not to. Her arrival on the scene does not disturb the man, but it really upsets his new wife, who departs with her baby. Manika decides that it helps no one for her to remain there in Nepal, and returns to her home in the south. However, all this has caused a genuine crisis of faith for the priest who, witnessing all this, has had to grapple with some irreconcilable issues.

## Common questions

### When was Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice released?
Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice was released on 26 May 1989.

### Who stars in Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice?
Julian Sands and Suresh Oberoi star in Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice.

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