Golmaal 3
2010 film by Rohit Shetty
Golmaal 3 (transl. Chaos 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 Mithun Chakraborty, Ratna Pathak Shah Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, Kareena Kapoor, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Kunal Khemu 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 4 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 became blockbuster at the box office and was the fourth film to enter the 100 Crore Club in India, eventually nearing a final worldwide total of ₹167 crore (US$17 million). 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 (2014). A fourth film in the series, Golmaal Again was released in 2017.
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