Housefull 3

About the film

Housefull 3 is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language comedy film co-written and directed by Sajid-Farhad and produced by Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. It is the third installment of the Housefull series and stars an ensemble cast consisting of Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez, Nargis Fakhri, Lisa Haydon, Chunky Panday and Jackie Shroff. The film was released on 3 June 2016 and was a commercial success grossing ₹195 crore worldwide.

A sequel Housefull 4 was released on 25 October 2019. A fifth installment titled Housefull 5 with two prints Housefull 5A and Housefull 5B was released on 6 June 2025.

Plot

Three robbers attempt to steal jewels from a building in London, but are captured by the police.

Six years later, Batuk Patel, a wealthy and successful businessman, disapproves marriage of his three daughters, Ganga, Jamuna, and Saraswati, as he believes that the previous ladies in his family were doomed because of marriage of his own family members. One night, at a friend's party, the girls reveal to their friend that secretly, they each have a boyfriend. Ganga, Jamuna, and Saraswati are respectively smitten with Sandy (who wants his own football club and is currently a rookie), Teddy (a wannabe racer), and Bunty (a wannabe rapper). Sandy has a self-destructive split personality named "Sundy", who stems from the racism faced by Sandy, awakening whenever he hears the word "Indian". Unbeknownst to the girls, the boys are only marrying them for Batuk's fortune.

When the girls tell their father about them, Batuk takes help of restaurant owner Aakhri Pasta, who dresses up as a fortune teller who claims that when the girl's husbands first see, speak to, or set foot into Batuk's house, Batuk will die. The girls, wanting to keep their boyfriends, exploit what Pasta said by making them pretend to be disabled. Sandy pretends to be crippled, Teddy blind and Bunty mute. Batuk tests them to see if they're lying, but to no avail. The boys learn of each other's charade and decide to split Batuk's fortune among themselves. At Pasta's restaurant, Batuk reveals to Pasta that his daughters are actually the daughters of Urja Nagre, an underworld crime lord. Batuk, a former associate of Nagre's, takes care of the girls while Nagre is in jail. Batuk had lied about his belief of bad luck from marriages and orchestrated Nagre's imprisonment just so he could secretly marry the girls to his three sons, Rishi, Rohan, and Rajeev, the robbers who tried to steal the jewels, to gain Nagre's fortune. Unbeknownst to him, Nagre has immigrated in London.

Reception

The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews and criticism for the portrayal of the disabilities and ethnic humor. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 23% of 13 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4/10.

Anupama Chopra of Hindustan Times called the film, "racist, sexist and willfully rude about the differently abled." Namrata Joshi of The Hindu wrote, "One can't quite go looking for political correctness in such a film. But Housefull3, doesn't know where it wants to stand on issues. No wonder after cracking many a joke at the physically challenged its attempt to redeem itself in the end seems half baked and forced. The film’s stand on racism is also just as confused. Initially Indians and the blacks are seen at the same end of the racial slurs yet you have the Gujju empire of Batook Patel populated entirely by black maids and distasteful references made to their wombs. And not to forget the play with maa and behen in the lyrics. What are these songs trying to say?"

Amongst positive reviews, Bollywood Hungama gave the film 3 out of 5, writing, "On the whole, HOUSEFULL 3 has all the constituents of an archetypal Hindi masala movie with hilarity, absurdity, humour, gags and punches in abundance. The film is a madcap entertainer which delivers guffaws, belly laughs and over-the-top slapstick humour in gigantic proportion. The film however is bound to get diverse reactions from the audiences. If you admire and relish these entertainers, and are passionate about cinema of this variety, then HOUSEFULL 3 is definitely a stress buster for you. Else, you can stay away from this."

Music

The music for Housefull 3 is composed by Sohail Sen, Mika Singh, Shaarib-Toshi and Tanishk Bagchi while the lyrics were written by Sameer Sen, Farhad-Sajid, Sanjeev Chaturvedi, Mamta Sharma, Arafat Mehmood, Rani Malik, Manoj Yadav and Danish Sabri. The background score is given by Julius Packiam. The music rights are acquired by T-Series. The first song of the film "Pyar Ki" was released on 24 April 2016. The full music album was released on 10 May 2016.

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