Pagalpanti

<p>Raj Kishore is plagued by bad luck, which also follows his longtime friends Jagmohan aka “Junky” and Chandrakanth alias “Chandu”. Any venture the trio engage in results in losses or setbacks; even their fire-cracker shop burns down on its inaugural day. The trio fool Sanjana by making her fall in love with Raj and getting them a bank loan to start a new package delivery business. Having similarly been fooled by them before, her uncle catches wind of them and demands their money back. The trio escapes and inadvertently ends up making their first delivery: an expensive sports car for Janhvi, the daughter of a gangster Raja Sahab, and the niece of WiFi Bhai, Raja’s brother-in-law. They deliver the car in a destroyed condition for which Raja Sahab and his goons torture them. They offer their services as servants, a suggestion which WiFi Bhai accepts; he convinces Raja Sahab to hire them against the wishes of their astrologer, who is aware of Kishore’s lousy luck. They get employed as disposable servants; Junky and Chandu are used for testing food that Raja Sahab’s and WiFi Bhai’s enemies may have poisoned, while Raj serves as their decoy during travel. In the process, Chandu and Janhvi fall for each other. During one of their traveling assignments, old enemies Tulli and Bulli Seth attack their convoy, revealing that WiFi Bhai is a coward. Fed up with their constant rivalry, businessman-turned-don Niraj Modi, who absconded India after taking huge loans, proposes to end their conflict by offering each party ₹700 crores to invest. By their continued stroke of lousy luck, Raj, Junky and Chandu end up causing a fire that burns the whole stack of money. In a bid to save what’s left of their money, Raja Sahab and WiFi Bhai send the trio to bet on their lucky horse. They instead overhear a conversation about another horse and bet on it, which instead loses the race. Unable to pay Raja Sahab and WiFi Bhai, the trio escape with Janhvi and Sanjana and her uncle following them. The group ends up on a glue truck where Janhvi’s lips get stuck to Chandu’s cheeks, and Sanjana and her uncle get stuck on their backs. They arrive in an abandoned house where they meet Kavya, staying there posing as a ghost after facing rejection in her acting career. There, Raj accidentally discovers a basement where Niraj keeps his stockpiles of cash. The trio steals the money and arrives at Raja Sahab and WiFi Bhai’s house just when they are about to be executed by Niraj for not paying them. They settle the money and buy out Niraj’s properties. Eventually, Niraj discovers that the trio pulled a fast one on him by stealing his own money to buy his properties. He arrives at Raja Sahab’s house and threatens to kill them all. Raj reminds him that his money is not his own but stolen from and Raj himself is an ex-employee of one of the banks Niraj took loans from and thus was one of many people who lost jobs because of Niraj. Raj also goads Niraj’s henchmen into keeping the money for themselves. A skirmish ensues involving three escaped lions and concludes with detectives arriving to take Niraj into custody. Raj, Junky and Chandu reconcile their differences with Raja Sahab and WiFi Bhai. They live happily ever after. was announced on 21 September 2018. In April 2019, Bazmee shared his experience of shooting in London. In a statement he said, “Shooting in London was not less than a roller-coaster ride. We had a few difficulties considering the weather conditions there.” Principal photography began in February 2019 in London. The London schedule lasted two months and ended in the final week of April 2019, wrapping up principal photography. John Abraham was injured while filming an action scene for the film in Mumbai. The production filmed scenes in , where Market Street doubled as a busy market and Guild Hall was converted into a fireworks shop. Chatham was used for a car chase scene along Slip 5, Museum Square, Ropery Street and Anchor Wharf. Ahead of the release of the film a sequel has been planned. Kumar Mangat, the producer said “It is going to be a big franchise, and our team has started work on the script for part two….” The first teaser poster was released on 18 October 2019. On the same day the character posters of the ensemble cast were released. The release date of the film was advanced and was released on 22 November 2019. received generally negative reviews from critics. gave it 2.5 stars out of 5 and praised the background score, cinematography, production design and costumes but criticized the writing, direction, music and VFX. Ronak Kotecha from gave it 3 stars out of 5, praising the action sequences and cinematography, writing, placement of songs and the characterization of heroines. Priyanka Sinha Jha from gave the film 2 stars out of 5 and praised Arshad Warsi and Brijendra Kala but criticized the writing, heroines and clichéd humor. A reviewer from similarly gave it 2 stars out 5 and praised the performances, a few jokes, cinematography and production values. The criticism was aimed at the length, writing and editing. The Magic PR Gave It A 4 out of 5 praising songs, writing, the interval and said “johny par paisa laga do, Join the Pagalpanti gang for a full laughter riot.” Vinamra Mathur from gave the film 1.5 stars out of 5 and found it unintentionally funny. from gave it 1 star out of 5 and criticized the humor, VFX, labelled the script as a “stuff of pre-schooler dreams” and found the performances to be “better suited for a school play.” Jyoti Sharma Bawa from criticized the humor, writing, dialogues, music, heroines and forced patriotism. The music of the film is composed by , , and Nayeem-Shabir, with lyrics written by , Arafat Mehmood, Yo Yo Honey Singh and Danish Sabri. The song “Tum Par Hum Hai Aatke” from the film which was originally composed by , lyrics by Sudhakar Sharma and sung by and , was recreated by Tanishk Bagchi. The song “Bimar Dil” from the film which was originally composed by , lyrics by and sung by and , was also recreated by Bagchi. The title track, “Pagalpanti”, composed by , has its theme music sampled from the title track of Bazmee’s 2007 film . s opening day domestic collection was 4.75 crore. On the second day, the film collected ₹6.50 crore. On the third day, the film collected ₹8.25 crore, taking total opening weekend collection to ₹19.50 crore. As of 23 December 2019 , with a gross of 39.3 crore in India and 9.87 crore overseas, the film has a worldwide gross collection of 49.17 crore.</p>