Golmaal (film series)

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Golmaal Film Series
Created by Neeraj Vora
Original work Golmaal (2006)
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Golmaal is an Indian comedy film series directed by Rohit Shetty, with four installments to date, the first three produced by Dhilin Mehta, the fourth by Shetty and Sangeeta Ahir and the fifth which is a spin off is produced by Shetty with Bhushan Kumar. The first film Golmaal: Fun Unlimited released in 2006 and was followed by 3 direct sequels: Golmaal Returns (2008), Golmaal 3 (2010) and Golmaal Again (2017). All four films starred Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, Sanjay Mishra, Vrajesh Hirjee and Mukesh Tiwari, with Shreyas Talpade, Ashwini Kalsekar and Murali Sharma appearing in three and Kareena Kapoor, Kunal Khemu and Johnny Lever appearing in two. [1] [2] [3] The series also has a spin-off named Cirkus was released on 23 December 2022.

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Golmaal is now the ninth-highest-grossing film series in Bollywood. The film series has been described as a screwball comedy franchise. [4] [5]

An animated version of the film series named Golmaal Jr. was released for with three central characters: Madhav, Gopal and Lucky. [6]

Films

FilmRelease dateDirectorScreenwriter(s)StoryProducer(s)
Golmaal: Fun Unlimited 14 July 2006 Rohit Shetty Neeraj Vora Ghar Ghar by Harsh Shivsharan Dhilin Mehta, Parag Sanghvi
Golmaal Returns 29 October 2008Yunus SajawalPheka Pheki by Bipin Varti Dhilin Mehta
Golmaal 3 5 November 2010 Yours, Mine and Ours by Melville Shavelson
Golmaal Again 20 October 2017Rohit ShettySangeeta Sachin Ahir, Rohit Shetty, Shivashish Sarkar

Golmaal: Fun Unlimited (2006)

Friends Gopal, Lucky, Madhav and Laxman often dupe gullible people out of their money. Hilarity ensues when they target an elderly couple and simultaneously try wooing their beautiful neighbour.

Golmaal Returns (2008)

Gopal, who lives with his ever suspecting wife, Ekta, gets stuck in a yacht for a night after he saves an attractive young woman from a bunch of hooligans. Ekta suspects him of having an affair and decides to uncover the truth.

Golmaal 3 (2010)

Cupid strikes when Pritam, a single father, comes across his college sweetheart, Geeta, in Goa. However, when their respective children go at war with each other, the two find it difficult to reunite.

Golmaal Again (2017)

Five orphan men return to the orphanage they grew up in to attend their mentor's funeral. However, they encounter the ghost of their childhood friend, Khushi, and help her attain salvation.

Cirkus (2022)

A scientist separates two sets of identical twins to find the conflict between nature vs nurture. However, years later the twins come close and creates confusion and hilarious situations.

It was revealed in the upcoming film Cirkus trailer released in December 2022, that film is set in 1960's and it would be a prequel to the fourth film of Golmaal series. In the trailer five kids was standing in front of "Jamnadas Orphanage" and telling their names - Gopal, Madhav and Laxman (2 kids), while the fifth kid is mute and trying to tell his name is Lucky. [7] [8] [9] [10] However, the film failed massively at the box-office.

Golmaal 5 (TBA)

After the release of the fourth installment, Rohit Shetty expressed interest in making a fifth part of the franchise. [11] He said, after getting a right script there will definitely be another installment. [12] [13] Ajay Devgn also showed interest to return in the next part. [14] It was also reported that Kareena Kapoor may return for the next installment. [15] After the release of the "Aankh Marey" music video from Ranveer Singh and Sara Ali Khan's Simmba , speculations of a fifth installment of the Golmaal franchise further strengthened. In the video, the four main actors, including Arshad Warsi and Tusshar Kapoor, are seen at the end of the holding up their hands to denote the number "5." Finally, on November 7, 2021, Rohit announced that the fifth film of Golmaal series would be titled Golmaal 5.

Cast and characters

This table lists the main characters who appear in the Golmaal Franchise.

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This section includes characters who have appeared in two or more installments in the series.

  • An empty grey cell indicates the character was not in the film.
  •  C indicates a cameo role.
  •  V indicates a voice-only role.
  •  Y indicates a younger version of the character.
ActorFilm
Golmaal:
Fun Unlimited
(2006)		 Golmaal Returns
(2008)		 Golmaal 3
(2010)		 Golmaal Again
(2017)
Ajay Devgn Gopal
Tusshar Kapoor Lucky
Arshad Warsi Madhav
Sharman Joshi Laxman Prasad
Shreyas Talpade Laxman
Kunal Khemu Laxman
Sanjay Mishra BubblySubodh MehraDaggaBubbly
Mukesh Tiwari Vasooli
Vrajesh Hirjee PandurangAnthony GonsalvesTejaPandurang
Ashwini Kalsekar MunniChintuDamini
Murali Sharma M.D. SawantInspector Dhande
Johnny Lever Puppy
Siddarth Jadhav Sattu SupariLucky's Assistant
Paresh Rawal Somnath
Rimi Sen Nirali
Sushmita Mukherjee Mangala
Manoj Joshi Harishchandra 'HaRaMi' Ramchandra Mirchandani
Kareena Kapoor EktaDivya "Dabbo" Kalamkar
Amrita Arora Esha
Celina Jaitley Meera Mena
Anjana Sukhani Daisy Paschisia
Vijay Patkar Constable Gandhari
Mithun Chakraborty Pritam "Pappu"
Ratna Pathak Shah Geeta "Guddi" Patnaik
Parineeti Chopra Khushi Bansal
Neil Nitin Mukesh Nikhil
Tabu Anna Mathew
Prakash Raj Vasu Reddy
Sachin Khedekar Colonel Chouhan
Nana Patekar Ghost V
Uday Tikekar Joy Jamnadas

Additional crew and production details

OccupationFilm
Golmaal:
Fun Unlimited
(2006)		 Golmaal Returns
(2008)		 Golmaal 3
(2010)		 Golmaal Again
(2017)		 Cirkus
(2022)
Director Rohit Shetty
Producer(s) Dhillin Mehta Rohit Shetty
Sangeeta Ahir		 Rohit Shetty
Bhushan Kumar
Screenplay Neeraj Vora Yunus Sajawal
Story Sajid-Farhad Rohit Shetty
Composer(s) Vishal–Shekhar Pritam
Ashish Pandit		 Pritam Amaal Mallik
S. Thaman
Lijo George-DJ Chetas
Abhishek Arora		 Devi Sri Prasad
Lijo George-DJ Chetas
Background Score Sanjoy Chowdhury Amar Mohile
Director of photographyAseem Bajaj Natty Subramaniam Dudley Jomon T. John
Editor(s)Steven H. BernardBunty Nagi
Production Companies Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd
K Sera Sera Private Limited 		Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd Rohit Shetty Pictures, Mangal Murti Films, Reliance Entertainment Rohit Shetty Pictures
T-Series Films
Distributing Companies Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd
Eros International 		Shemaroo Entertainment Eros International Reliance Entertainment
Running Time150 minutes135 minutes140 minutes152 minutes139 minutes

Release and revenue

Film
Golmaal: Fun Unlimited
(2006)		 Golmaal Returns
(2008)		 Golmaal 3
(2010)		 Golmaal Again
(2017)		 Cirkus
(2022)
Budget₹15 crore [16] ₹35 crore [17] ₹50 crore [18] ₹80 crore₹150 crore
Domestic gross₹41.49 crore₹70.89 crore₹149.12 crore₹264.89 crore₹38.21 crore
Overseas gross₹9.18 crore₹14.91 crore₹37.86 crore₹59.09 crore₹1.88 crore
Total gross₹46.72 crore₹80 crore₹169.56 crore₹311.04 crore₹58.24 crore
Franchise gross₹664.58 crore (US$80 million)

Animated series

An animated series Golmaal Jr. based on the characters from film series premiered on Sonic Nickelodeon on 13 May 2019 with 5 main characters. [19] [20]

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