Welcome (film series)

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Welcome
Directed by
Screenplay by
  • Anees Bazmee
  • Rajiv Kaul
  • Praful Parekh
  • Rajan Aggarwal
  • (Welcome Back)
Story by
  • Anees Bazmee
  • Rajiv Kaul
Produced byFiroz Nadiadwala
Starring
Cinematography
  • Sanjay Gupta (Welcome)
  • Kabir Lal (Welcome Back)
Edited by
  • Ashfaque Makrani (Welcome)
  • Stevan Bernard (Welcome Back)
Music by
Production
companies
  • Base Industries Group
  • Swiss Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. (Welcome Back)
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 1 : 21 December 2007 (2007-12-21)
  • 2 : 4 September 2015 (2015-09-04)
  • 3 : 27 December 2024 (2024-12-27)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget
  • 130 crore (US$16 million)
  • (Two films)
Box office
  • 285 crore (US$34 million)
  • (Two films)

Welcome is an Indian comedy film series, produced by Firoz Nadiadwala and directed by Anees Bazmee. The first part Welcome [1] released in 2007 and the second part Welcome Back [2] released in 2015. A third part named Welcome to the Jungle is scheduled to hit the theatres on December 27, 2024. [3]

Contents

Overview

Welcome (2007)

Uday (Nana Patekar), a criminal don, decides to find a husband for his kindhearted sister Sanjana (Katrina Kaif), but he is unsuccessful since no one wants to be associated with a crime family. Dr. Ghunghroo (Paresh Rawal) has also been trying to get his nephew, Rajiv (Akshay Kumar), married but due to his condition—the alliance must be with a purely decent family—he is also unsuccessful.

When Rajiv jumps into a burning building to save Sanjana, he is smitten by her. Uday and Majnu (Anil Kapoor), Uday's brother gangster hatch a plan for an alliance with Dr. Ghunghroo. The plan works and Dr. Ghunghroo confirms the alliance, thinking that Uday is a very decent man. But when he is later told that Uday and Majnu are mobsters, he quickly takes his family and flees to Sun City, South Africa to escape. However, Majnu and Sanjana have come to Sun City as well. Rajiv meets Sanjana again and the two fall in love.

Dr. Ghunghroo reconciles with Uday and Majnu and finally agrees to the alliance. Uday and Majnu invite a powerful don of the underworld, RDX (Feroz Khan) to the engagement. At the party, a girl named Ishika (Malika Sherawat) arrives, claiming to be Rajiv's childhood betrothed. Ishika is actually the sister-in-law of Dr.Ghunghroo whom Dr. Ghunghroo asked to come and try to break off the engagement. Ishika manages to do so, leaving Rajiv and Sanjana heartbroken. Dr. Ghunghroo reveals that he did this for Rajiv's mother, who had married into a crime family and was harassed and tortured, thus telling Dr. Ghunghroo to raise Rajiv away from crime when he was born. Dr. Ghunghroo decides he will agree to the marriage only if Uday and Majnu give up their life of crime. Rajiv and Sanjana do this by reawakening Uday's love for acting and encouraging Majnu to pursue his love for painting. With these things keeping them busy, Uday and Majnu have no time for crime any more.

Rajiv's actions anger RDX's son, Lucky, who attempts to shoot Rajiv. Sanjana gets hold of the gun and fires a shot that hits Lucky, causing him to go unconscious. RDX is informed of his son's death and comes to attend the cremation. However Lucky, who is still alive, escapes, trying to show his father that he's actually alive. RDX sets the pile of wood on fire, believing he is cremating his son's body. However Lucky, who had been hiding under the wood, jumps out upon realising the wood is on fire, and the truth is revealed to RDX. Rajiv, Ghunghroo, his wife, Ishika, Uday, Majnu and Sanjana are captured by RDX and brought to a cabin set next to a cliff. The frightened group is forced to play Passing the Parcel (Hot Potato) with a globe—but the one who ends up with the globe must jump off the cliff. When Rajiv refuses to pass the globe to Sanjana, Lucky angrily yanks it out of his hands, just as the music stops. Now that his son has the globe, RDX figures the only way he can maintain his image is by killing everyone. Before he can, several government brokers sneak up and cut the footings of the cabin, causing the house to start falling over the cliff, with everyone trapped inside. However, the cabin is suspended by only one column. Hilarious chaos ensues as the group tries to balance the cabin together and keep it from falling off the cliff. Rajiv finds a rope and the group uses it to get back onto stable ground. But to everyone's shock, the floor breaks and Lucky is found hanging on the edge of the cabin. While Rajiv is trying to rescue him, Sanjana reveals the truth to everyone that she was the one who shot Lucky, but Rajiv blamed himself so that Sanjana wouldn't get in trouble. After Rajiv rescues Lucky, the cabin he is standing on falls off into the cliff. Sanjana keeps crying for him thinking he is dead. However, Rajiv survives the event and is reunited with Sanjana and his family. Lucky and RDX are grateful to Rajiv for saving their lives and RDX gives up his life of crime, allowing Rajiv and Sanjana to finally get married.

Welcome Back (2015)

Uday Shetty (Nana Patekar) and Majnu Bhai (Anil Kapoor) end a life of crime and become honest businessmen, settling in Dubai. Two conwomen from India, Poonam (Dimple Kapadia) and Babita (Ankita Shrivastava), present themselves as Maharani Padmavati and Rajkumari Chandini of Najafgarh to con Uday and Majnu of their money. Babita causes the two men to fall in love with her, thus getting them to finance herself and Poonam's luxurious lifestyle. Later, it is revealed that Uday has another sister Ranjana (Shruti Haasan) from his father's third marriage and Majnu and Uday are emotionally blackmailed by Uday's father into arranging the marriage of Ranjana and are also forced to do so as Poonam makes that one of her conditions for getting Babita married to either one of them.

The movie then shifts to Dr. Ghunguroo (Paresh Rawal), who has found out that he has a step son from his wife's previous marriage, Ajju a.k.a. Ajay (John Abraham). Ajju is a local goon of Mumbai, where Ranjana studies. Through a chain of hilarious events, they both fall in love with each other. Meanwhile, Majnu and Uday arrange the marriage of Ranjana with the step-son of Doctor Ghunguroo, not knowing that he is a goon. However, at the engagement ceremony, Majnu reveals the truth of Ajju, to which Ajju resists with a fight, threatening to marry Ranjana without any of the brothers' consent.

In order to keep Ajju at bay, Uday and Majnu visit Wanted Bhai, (Naseeruddin Shah), who is an infamous blind don. The brothers are shocked to find that Wanted's son Honey (Shiney Ahuja) likes Ranjana and would like to marry her. They decide to arrange the marriage of Ranjana to some other decent man, in order to sidestep Ajju as well as Wanted's son. However, due to Ajju and Dr. Ghunguroo, who are in league with Babita and Poonam, they are caught by Wanted Bhai, who summons them to his island.

There, Ajju and Dr. Ghunguroo try to convince Honey that he no longer loves Ranjana and that Babita is his true love. Meanwhile, Uday and Majnu try to kill Ajju, but are frightened at the graveyard in a ghost act planned by Dr. Ghunguroo, Ajju and Ranjana. Unbeknownst to all of them, their activities have been recorded by closed-circuit television, causing Wanted Bhai and Honey to plan to finish them off. However, in a hilarious climax scene, Honey is kidnapped by all of them and they escape towards the desert where they are chased by Wanted Bhai. In the midst of saving himself, Dr. Ghunguroo pushes Wanted Bhai, causing him to faint. Meanwhile, a group of camels heavily march there. Ajju is successful in saving Wanted Bhai from the stampede of camels, and restoring his sight. Wanted Bhai himself, as a form of gratitude, arranges the marriage of Ajju with Ranjana, calling Ajju his 'second son'.

Welcome to the Jungle (2024)

Welcome to the Jungle is scheduled to be released on 27 December 2024. [4] The film is directed by Ahmed Khan and written by Farhad Samji. The cast consists of Akshay Kumar, Sal Dhumadia, Shah Rukh Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Govinda, Suniel Shetty, Bobby Deol, Aftab Shivdasani, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Raveena Tandon, Lara Dutta, Jacqueline Fernandez, Disha Patani, Vrihi Kodvara, Paresh Rawal, Johnny Lever, Rajpal Yadav, Krushna Abhishek, Kiku Sharda, Daler Mehndi, Mika Singh, Rahul Dev, Mukesh Tiwari, Sharib Hashmi, Inaamulhaq, Zakir Hussain, Yashpal Sharma and Rani Mukerji. [5] [6] Unlike earlier films in the franchise, Welcome to the Jungle will be a standalone feature.

Cast and characters

CharacterFilm
Sagar "Majnu Bhai" Pandey Anil Kapoor
Uday Shetty "Uday Bhai" Nana Patekar
Dr. Dayal Ghunghroo Paresh Rawal
Mrs. Payal Ghunghroo Supriya Karnik
Uday Shetty’s lawyer Adi Irani
Uday Shetty’s bodyguardHarry Josh
Majnu's goon Snehal Dabi
Baljeet "Ballu" Rawat Mushtaq Khan
Mr. Rakesh Kapoor / Vikrant Kapoor / Amar Kapoor Ranjeet
Rajiv Saini Akshay Kumar
Ranvir Dhanraj Xaka
RDX
Feroz Khan Feroz Khan
(archive footage)
Sanjana Shetty Katrina Kaif Katrina Kaif
(archive footage)
Ishika Kanojia Mallika Sherawat
Lucky Xaka Shereveer Vakil
Purushottam Paresh Ganatra
Municipal worker Charlie
Pandit Manilal Shastri Sanjay Mishra
Dhanesh Varman Vijay Raaz
Akhilendra Chandel Asrani
Ajay Barsi "Ajju Bhai" John Abraham
Ranjana Shetty Shruti Hassan
Shankar ShettyNana Patekar
Poonam / Maharani Padmavati Dimple Kapadia
Babita / Rajkumari ChandiniAnkita Shrivastav
Mansoor Sharif (Wanted Bhai) Naseeruddin Shah
Honey Sharif Shiney Ahuja
Baadshah Bhai Neeraj Vora
Tailor Rajpal Yadav
Himself Suniel Shetty

Special appearances and narrators

CharacterFilm
Narrator Om Puri Vijay Raaz
Suneil Shetty Himself
Special appearance
in songs
Malaika Arora
(in "Honth Rasiley")
Radhika Bangia
(in "20-20")
Sakshi Maggo
(in "20-20")
Lauren Gottlieb
(in "20-20")
Reema Debnath
(in "20-20")
Surveen Chawla
(in "Tutti Bole Wedding Di")
Snigdha Gupta Mehta
(in "Tutti Bole Wedding Di")

Crew

OccupationFilm
Welcome
(2007)
Welcome Back
(2015)
Welcome to the Jungle
(2024)
Director Anees Bazmee Ahmed Khan
Producer(s)Firoz A. NadiadwalaFiroz A. Nadiadwala, Jyoti Deshpande
Screenplay Anees Bazmee, Rajiv Kaul, Praful Parekh Anees Bazmee, Rajiv Kaul, Rajan Aggarwal, Praful ParekhTBA
Story Anees Bazmee, Rajiv Kaul
CinematographySanjay F. GuptaKabir Lal
EditorAshfaque MakraniSteven BernardNitin FCP
Composer(s) Meet Bros. Anjjan, Anu Malik, Abhishek Ray Anand Raj Anand, Himesh Reshammiya, Sajid–Wajid Meet Bros
Background score Sajid–Wajid Aadesh Shrivastava TBA

Release and revenue

FilmRelease dateBudgetBox office revenue
Welcome 21 December 2007500 million (US$6.0 million) [7] 1.16 billion (US$14 million) [8]
Welcome Back 4 September 2015800 million (US$9.6 million) [9] 1.69 billion (US$20 million) [10]
Welcome to the Jungle TBA150 crore (US$18 million)TBA
Total1.3 billion (US$16 million)Three films2.85 billion (US$34 million)Two films

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