Golmaal 3
Golmaal 3 () is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty and the third film in the Golmaal series. The film contains an ensemble cast starring Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, Mithun Chakraborty, Kareena Kapoor, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Kunal Khemu, Ratna Pathak Shah, and Johnny Lever. The storyline is partially inspired by Basu Chatterjee's 1978 film Khatta Meetha which itself was based on the 1968 film Yours, Mine and Ours. Golmaal 3 was released on 5 November 2010, coinciding with Diwali. The film received mixed reviews, with praise for its humour and performances but criticism for its repetitive jokes and narrative. Nevertheless, the film was a blockbuster and became the fourth film to enter the 100 Crore Club in India, eventually nearing a final worldwide total of . The film was ranked as the second highest-grossing film of 2010 in India after Dabangg and third worldwide behind Dabangg and My Name Is Khan. Golmaal 3 was later remade in Telugu as Pandavulu Pandavulu Tummeda (2013). A fourth film in the series, Golmaal Again was released in 2017. Plot
The story follows Pritam, an elderly bus driver. His three good-for-nothing sons, Madhav, the group leader; Laxman, the poetic idiot; and Lucky, the innocent mute, are always up to trouble, mostly by scamming people. On the other hand, Geeta is an elderly woman whose two sons, Laxman, the stammerer; and Gopal, the strong but kind leader; own a water sports stall at the beach owned by . Gopal and Laxman's partner is Daboo, on whom Gopal has a crush but never shows it. Madhav, Laxman 2, and Lucky's don, Pappi, and his goons Daga and Teja rob the queen's necklace and are on the run from the police, they end up in Goa. Pappi, who suffers from short-term memory, hides the necklace in Pritam's house. Soon enough, both groups meet at a bar, and Pritam's sons open a water sports shack opposite Geeta's sons' stall, and a rivalry begins. Filled with mayhem, both groups try to take down each other's duplicate businesses but fail hilariously. In response to this, Pritam goes to meet Geeta (unaware that they are Geeta's sons) to sort out this rivalry and learns that Geeta is his college sweetheart. Daboo overhears their love story and decides to get the two married, without their sons' permission. After the marriage, the two families start living in one house, filled with non-stop laughter and mayhem. After being overheard by Lucky, it is also revealed to the five sons that they are not Pritam and Geeta's sons, but orphans. The boys vow not to tell the couple that they know they are orphans, and to hide that, they become friendly like brothers. They also open a large toy store with the help of Vasooli Bhai and Pappi for money. Upon meeting Pritam, Pappi eventually remembers where he hid the necklace and turns himself in, but accidentally makes everyone believe that Pritam was the one who stole the necklace, causing a long squabble and chase. Pritam finds the necklace after the mayhem and arrests Pappi and his goons after Gopal and Daboo trick him into revealing the location of the hidden necklace. Later, Pritam and Geeta go on their honeymoon while Gopal, Madhav, Lucky, and the two Laxmans end up brawling after an argument. During the argument, Daboo tries to stop them, but they don't. The film ends with Daboo pulling the director of the film, Rohit Shetty, and other crew members to stop their argument. The whole cast and crew enter the frame to stop them together, which itself creates chaos. 