Golmaal Again is a 2017 Indian Hindi supernatural comedy film, directed and co-produced by Rohit Shetty, and written by Sajid-Farhad and Yunus Sajawal. It stars Ajay Devgn, Parineeti Chopra, Tabu, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Kunal Khemu, Prakash Raj, Johny Lever, Sirshak Shrestha, Sanjai Mishra and Neil Nitin Mukesh. Golmaal Again is the fourth installment of the Golmaal film franchise. The film marks Devgn's tenth film collaboration with Rohit Shetty. The production of the film began in July 2016 and principal photography commenced in March 2017 in Mumbai. The film released on 20 October 2017.
The film broke several records upon its release. With a box office gross of over INR 3.11 billion, it is the third-highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2017 and one of the highest-grossing Indian films of all time.
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Plot
The story starts with Anna Matthew (Tabu) explaining that she can see ghosts and spiritual spirits due to a special power given to her by the Gods and believes she has been chosen to help ghosts and fulfill their last wishes so that their spirits can achieve salvation. The story continues with Anna narrating one such incident of her life.
The story revolves around Gopal (Ajay Devgn), Madhav (Arshad Warsi), Lucky (Tusshar Kapoor), Laxman 1 (Shreyas Talpade) and Laxman 2 (Kunal Khemu), who are orphans living in an orphanage located in the picturesque Ooty, managed by the kind businessman Jamnadas (Uday Tikekar).
One night, Gopal, Madhav, Lucky and the two Laxmans find a baby girl at the gate of the orphanage. They name her Khushi and take care of her. The five boys also know Anna, who works in a library nearby. The boys are aware of Anna's power to see spirits from the other world. One day, Madhav pranks and scares the easily frightened Gopal in an empty bungalow, which leads to a fight between the two then young boys. Gopal gets punished and the five boys decide to leave the orphanage. Khushi is extremely upset with this as she is left behind. Khushi later gets adopted by a loving colonel and his wife.
Years later, Gopal and Laxman 1 are estranged from Madhav, Laxman 2 and Lucky. The five, however, are once again reunited when the news of Jamnadas's death comes and they are invited to an event to be held to honour him. They return to the orphanage after 25 years, finding that nothing much has changed. The five enter the old bungalow where Madhav had scared Gopal. There, they meet the colonel; they are also reunited with Anna Matthew, and Pappi (Johnny Lever), another orphan from the orphanage. They also meet with Damini (Parineeti Chopra) whom Anna introduces as the bunglow's caretaker. Anna reacts strangely when she sees the boys acknowledging Damini's presence.
At the special event for Jamnadas, businessman Vasu Reddy (Prakash Raj) reveals that the orphanage's kids will be shifted somewhere else, while the orphanage in Ooty will be demolished. Soon, one by one, the boys get possessed by a ghost that talks in Nana Patekar's voice. This scares Gopal, so Anna suggests they stay in Colonel's house.
Madhav, Laxman 2 and Lucky are also staying in the Colonel's house, as they are handed over the job of getting Gopal and Laxman 1 out of the house by Vasooli (Mukesh Tiwari) and Vasu Reddy. The five of them fight daily, exasperating Anna. The boys finally make amends after Lucky gets possessed. They push Gopal, who has fallen for Damini, to express his love to her. Just then, Pappi tells that the girl who they thought was Damini is actually dead and the real Damini is alive and is Pappi's girlfriend. Terrified, they try to flee but Anna stops them and reveals that the ghost is of none other than their own Khushi, their childhood friend.
Khushi then tells her tale that how she had met a young businessman, Nikhil (Neil Nitin Mukesh), and fell in love with him. Their marriage was fixed. One night, however, she witnessed Nikhil killing Jamnadas as Jamnadas confronted Nikhil about the latter's conspiracy of obtaining the orphanage in his name on the pretext of benefitting the orphans, and instead, demolishing the orphanage and building a construction site for his personal gain. Khushi then confronted Nikhil and threatens to go to the police and calls him a murderer. Nikhil then strangled Khushi to death. With Vasu Reddy's help, Nikhil proved Jamnadas' and Khushi's death as accidents. Khushi came to Anna as a spirit, asking for help. Anna was surprised that the boys could see Khushi and took it as God's sign, which is why she brought the boys to the house to help her.
The boys plan to scare Vasu into confessing the truth but their plan is ruined when Nikhil returns and mocks that they don't have any evidence to prosecute him for the alleged crime. This infuriates Khushi, who brutally attacks Nikhil and almost kills him. Anna calms her down and Vasu Reddy convinces Nikhil to confess. In the end, the orphanage is saved and Khushi's spirit, now content, departs happily to heaven after bidding goodbye to the boys.
During the credits, the five dance with Khushi on a song.
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Cast
- Ajay Devgn as Gopal
- Parineeti Chopra as Khushi / Spirit/ Damini(fake name)
- Tabu as Anna Mathew
- Arshad Warsi as Madhav
- Shreyas Talpade as Laxman 1
- Kunal Khemu as Laxman 2
- Tushar Kapoor as Lucky
- Neil Nitin Mukesh as Nikhil
- Prakash Raj as Vasu Reddy
- Sachin Khedekar as Colonel
- Rohit KaduDeshmukh as Nikhil's business partner in Dubai
- Johnny Lever as Pappi
- Mukesh Tiwari as Vasooli
- Sanjay Mishra as Babli
- Murali Sharma as Inspector Dande
- Vijay Patkar as Constable Gandhari
- Uday Tikekar as Jamnadas
- Ashwini Kalsekar as Damini
- Vrajesh Hirjee as Pandurang
- Nana Patekar as himself (guest appearance) and the voice of ghost
Production
Development
In July 2016, Ajay Devgn and Rohit Shetty announced Golmaal 4, the fourth instalment of Golmaal marking the completion of ten years of the first Golmaal (2006).
Casting
Among the previous cast of the Golmaal series, actors Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, Shreyas Talpade, Tusshar Kapoor and Kunal Khemu were included in this installment. However, Kareena Kapoor was replaced by Parineeti Chopra in November 2016 after the former declined the part owing to her pregnancy. In late January 2017, Tabu was signed in for a crucial role. In February 2017, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Prakash Raj were signed for the film.
Filming
Principal photography commenced on 9 March 2017 in Mumbai at Yash Raj Studios. The Mumbai schedule was wrapped on 2 April 2017.
Themes
On 18 October, the theme song "Itna Sannata Kyu Hai" was released.
Reception
Critical response
The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Meena Iyer of The Times of India gave the film 3.5 stars and stated that the film is full of laughs with no substance. Raja Sen of NDTV gave the film 2 stars, stating that Golmaal Again is "a marginally better film than Golmaal 3 or Golmaal Returns" but felt the film was too long.
Box office
On its opening day, Golmaal Again grossed INR30.10 crore net, one of the highest openings for a Bollywood film in 2017. The film collected INR28.25 on the second day. The third day's collection was INR28.5 crore. On the fourth day, the film collected INR15.25 crore, taking the total collections to INR102.85 crore. On the fifth day, the film collected INR13.25 crore. The sixth day's collection of the film was INR10.5 crore.
By the end of the first week, the film grossed INR135 crore. The third week's gross was INR197.4 crore. Golmaal Again grossed INR200 crore after four weeks of its release in Indian box office. The film grossed US$3 million in its first weekend in overseas. The film grossed $160,000 in Nepal, and $400,000 in Pakistan in the first weekend. The worldwide collection of the film was INR300 crore in its fourth week. Also it is the highest-grossing Indian film in Fiji. The film became the highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2017. Golmaal Again ran in cinemas for more than 50 days in India.
Soundtrack
The music of the film have been composed by Amaal Mallik, S. Thaman, Lijo George-DJ Chetas and Abhishek Arora while the lyrics of the film have been penned by Kumaar. The first track of the film titled as "Golmaal (Title Track)" sung by Brijesh Shandilya and Aditi Singh Sharma was released on 23 September 2017. The second track of the film "Neend Churai Meri" from the 1997 film Ishq has been recreated to "Maine Tujhko Dekha" for this film in the voices of Neeraj Shridhar and Sukriti Kakar and was released on 29 September 2017. The soundtrack was released on 6 October 2017 by T-Series.
All lyrics written by Kumaar.
Release
20 October 2017 was announced as release date of the film, coinciding with Diwali.
See also
- List of Hindi comedy films
- List of Hindi horror films
References
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External links
- Golmaal Again on IMDb
- Golmaal Again at Bollywood Hungama
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