Housefull (film series)

Housefull series
Directed by Sajid Khan
(Housefull , Housefull 2)
Sajid-Farhad
(Housefull 3)
Produced by Sajid Nadiadwala
Written by Sajid Nadiadwala
(Housefull) Tushar Hiranandani
(Housefull 2)
Sajid-Farhad
(Housefull 2, Housefull 3)
Screenplay by Milap Zaveri, Vibha Singh
(Housefull)
Sajid Khan
(Housefull, Housefull 2)
Sajid-Farhad
(Housefull 3)
Starring Akshay Kumar
Ritesh Deshmukh
Music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
(Housefull)
Sajid-Wajid
(Housefull 2)
Cinematography Vikas Sivaraman
(Housefull)
Manoj Soni
(Housefull 2)
Edited by Rameshwar S. Bhagat
Production
company
Distributed by ShowMan Pictures
(Housefull)
Eros International
(Housefull, Housefull 2)
UTV Motion Pictures
(Housefull, Housefull 2)
Release dates
 1: 30 April 2010 (2010-04-30)
2: 5 April 2012 (2012-04-05)
3: 3 June 2016 (2016-06-03)
Country India
Language Hindi
Budget ₹950 million (US$14 million)
(Two films)
Box office ₹3.01 billion (US$45 million)
(Two films)

Housefull is a series of Indian comedy films. The first two films Housefull and Housefull 2 is directed by Sajid Khan.[1][2] The music is composed by Sajid-Wajid.[3] The third film, Housefull 3, will be directed by Sajid-Farhad. The series is produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. The series stars Akshay Kumar and Ritesh Deshmukh as recurring cast.

Overview

Housefull (2010)

Main article: Housefull (2010 film)

The story follows Aarush, (Akshay Kumar), a jinxed loser who stays with his friend, Bob (Ritesh Deshmukh) and his wife, Hetal (Lara Dutta), both working at a casino owned by Mr.Kishore Samtani (Randhir Kapoor). Although at first Hetal is displeased with Aarush's presence, he proves to be a kind-hearted man looking for family. Bob and Hetal decide to get him married to their boss' daughter, Devika Samtani (Jiah Khan). After the marriage, on their honeymoon in Italy, Devika leaves him for her long-time American boyfriend Benny. Aarush decides to commit suicide by drowning in the sea but is saved by a Telugu girl Sandy (Deepika Padukone).

Sandy originally thinks Aarush is a pervert, but when Aakhri Pasta (Chunkey Pandey), the owner of Italy's biggest hotel where Aarush was spending his honeymoon with Devika, tells Sandy that Aarush is a widower, she befriends him and slowly falls in love with him. What she doesn't know, is that Aakhri Pasta was only joking. She then finds out his wife is alive and leaves him, but when he tries to make her understand, she accepts him.

The only way Aarush can get married to Sandy is by convincing her elder brother, Major Krishna Rao (Arjun Rampal), a strict Indian Military Intelligence officer who loves and is over-protective of Sandy. Meanwhile, Hetal lies to her father, Batuk Patel (Boman Irani), that Bob owns a mansion and they have a child. The four rent a mansion to make him believe that Bob owns it, but Batuk accidentally believes that Aarush is married to Hetal, and Bob is the cook. Then, Krishna turns up, much to Aarush's horror, leading to more lies.

For half of the term, the four must pretend that the mansion is owned by Bob, and the rest must pretend that Aarush owns it. An overly suspicious Krishna sees Bob and Hetal working at the casino and uses a lie detector to find the truth. After Sandy objects, Krishna apologises and agrees to Aarush & Sandy's marriage. The whole family is invited to the Royal Palace, to see Krishna get rewarded by the Queen of England. While this is happening, 2 workers are meant to be installing air conditioning gas for the place, however instead they accidentally supply the hall with laughing gas causing everyone to break into an outburst of laughter. During this laughter, the truth is let out but no one seems to be in the right state of mind.

The 2 workers meanwhile stop the gas from spreading – everyone comes back to their senses. Aarush is still telling Krishna the truth, leading Krishna to break off Sandy's engagement. However, after Sandy tearfully pleads with him, Krishna lets the two get married. In the end, Hetal and Bob live together with Batuk Patel, and Aarush's luck changes for the better.

Housefull 2 (2012)

Main article: Housefull 2

Film plot actually inspire from marathi film "Dam Dam Diga Diga" which released in 2008. The film opens with two cousins – Heena (Asin Thottumkal) and Bobby (Jacqueline Fernandez), the two daughters of the Kapoor family who hate each other very much – start quarrelling over something relating to their duties of Animals' Law Authority. Their fathers, Chintu (Rishi Kapoor) and Dabboo (Randhir Kapoor), are step-brothers who hate each other to the very core. Even their wives hate each other. Chintu wants the richest son-in law for his daughter, Heena, while Dabboo too wants the same for his daughter, Bobby. Aakhri Pasta (Chunky Pandey), a marriage counsellor, is ordered by both Chintu and Dabboo to find the best son-in-law. Aakhri Pasta brings Mr. Babani (Virendra Saxena) to discuss Babani's son Jai.

When Chintu misinterprets one of Aakhri's comments, he verbally abuses Babani while shouting. Babani suffers from a condition that affects his heart when he hears loud noises. Due to Chintu's shouting, Babani suffers a heart attack, landing him in a hospital. Babani's son Jai (Shreyas Talpade) comes to know of this and gets angry, then vows revenge, telling his friend Jolly/Jwala (Ritesh Deshmukh), who is the son of billionaire J.D. (Mithun Chakraborty), to go to Chintu, agree to marry his daughter and then break off the wedding at the last minute. Jolly is busy trying to introduce his girlfriend to his own father and does not want to get involved. He suggests Max (John Abraham), their former college mate and a thief, to do the job. Jay goes with Max as his driver but somehow, they end in the wrong house and go to Dabboo's house.

Jay and Max later find out their mistake. Jai, still wanting revenge, doesn't know what to do and Jolly suggests another former sleazy college mate, Sunny (Akshay Kumar). Jolly goes with Sunny as his bodyguard because Max and Sunny are sworn enemies and as Dabboo's house and Chintu's house are right next to each other, their plan may get destroyed. Sunny and Jolly encounter a crocodile and Max and Jay encounter a snake. They manage to survive the attack.

While Heena and Bobby are at a cruise, they accidentally end up on an island. Max and Sunny become friends again, While Heena and Bobby become friends also . They find a resort and go home. Dabboo gets Jolly (Max) engaged to Bobby and Chintu gets Jolly (Sunny) engaged to Heena.The day of the engagement, Chintu blindfolds Jolly, Sunny, Jai and Heena and takes them to J.D.'s house. After seeing the real Jolly holding Sunny's garland, J.D. believes that Jolly got engaged to Heena. Luckily, Sunny convinces him. Jolly calls them at midnight and reveals his father's secret of being Jagga Daaku . He also reveals that his real name is Jwala. After Sunny fools Chintu, Chintu calls Dabboo in excitement and tells him that his daughter, Heena, is getting married to Jolly, the son of J.D. Confused, and believing Max to be Jolly, Dabboo takes Max and Bobby to J.D.'s mansion. Sunny handles the situation well by fooling J.D. by taking the name of his religion and tells him that Max is Jolly's friend and Bobby is Max's fiance (though actually it is true) and Max's father is against his and Bobby's marriage. J.D. then welcomes Bobby, Max and her family to his house and tells them to stay there up to Bobby and Max's marriage.

Batuk Patel (Boman Irani) arrives with his daughter Parul (Shazahn Padamsee) to make things worse. Jay and Jwala come to receive them from the airport. But when they see Parul, Jay and Jwala lie that Jay is Jolly. Parul becomes happy hearing this as they secretly love each other. Jelo (Zarine Khan) gives Jwala the ultimatum  – take me to your house or forget me. To help Jwala, Sunny lies to J.D., saying that Jelo is his fiance, and J.D. again agrees to let her live there as Sunny takes the name of his religion. Sunny and Max lie to their respective fathers-in-law that the other guy is the son of J.D. and a maid servant in the mansion. This creates a lot of confusion.

When Sunny's father as well as Max's 'Guru' tells them never to break anyone's heart, Sunny and Max tell the truth to Heena and Bobby. Enraged, Bobby and Heena slap Max and Sunny respectively and tell them that they never want to see their faces again. But thinking that instead of telling the truth, Sunny and Max could have done more wrong with them, the two sisters pardon the two boys on the very next day. There Jay and Jolly also let off their plan of revenge on Kapoors on Jay's father's advice. Then Henna proposes Sunny in Sunny's style and Bobby proposes Max in Max's style.

On the day of the four couples' marriage, J.D. and the other brides' fathers learn the truth about the grooms and that they have been lying all this time. Finally Bobby and Heena convince their fathers to forget their enmity and live together as blood brothers. Chintu and Dabboo join hands and so do their wives. But J.D. was not convinced by them telling the truth, so he turns back into Jagga Daku and starts frightening the families with his gun. He tries to shoot Sunny with his gun as Sunny runs towards J.D. to save him from the falling chandelier and then he understands what was happening. In the end, all the grooms get married to their respective girlfriends.

Housefull 3 (2016)

Main article: Housefull 3

The sequel to Housefull 2 was confirmed by producer Sajid Nadiadwala in mid 2014. The filming started in January 2015. It will be directed by Sajid-Farhad a new director duo for Housefull series, previously directed 2014 film Entertainment and were the writers of previous two films of Housefull Series.[4] At the same time the film was confirmed it was revealed that actors Abhishek Bachchan, Nargis Fakhri and Lisa Haydon will be the part of this film.[5]

Cast

Housefull

Housefull 2

Cast and crew of Housefull 2

Housefull 3

Crew

Occupation Film
Housefull
(2010)		 Housefull 2
(2012)		 Housefull 3
(2016)
Director Sajid Khan Sajid-Farhad
Producer(s) Sajid Nadiadwala
Writer(s) Milap Zaveri
Sajid Khan
Vibha Singh
Sajid Nadiadwala		 Tushar Hiranandani
Sajid-Farhad		 Sajid-Farhad
Composer(s) Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Sajid-Wajid
Director of photography Vikas Sivaraman Manoj Soni
Editor(s) Rameshwar S. Bhagat

Release and revenue

Film Release date Budget Box office revenue
Housefull 30 April 2010 ₹450 million (US$6.7 million)[6] ₹1.15 billion (US$17 million)[7]
Housefull 2 5 April 2012 ₹500 million (US$7.4 million)[8] ₹1.86 billion (US$28 million).[9]
Housefull 3 3 June 2016 N/A N/A
Total ₹950 million (US$14 million)
Two films		 ₹3.01 billion (US$45 million)
Two films

Awards and nominations

6th Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards
2011 Zee Cine Awards

Nominated[11]

IIFA Awards

Won

Stardust Awards

Won

Housefull 2

IIFA Awards

Nominated

References

  1. ↑ ADESARA, HETAL (4 May 2010). "Box Office: Housefull holds on Monday with Rs 50 million net collections in India". Businessofcinema. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
  2. ↑ "Housefull 2 Cast and Crew". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  3. ↑ Parkar, Shaheen (5 April 2011). "Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy replaced by Sajid-Wajid". MiD DAY. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
  4. ↑ "HOUSEFULL 3".
  5. ↑ "Kriti Sanon To Star in Housefull 3".
  6. ↑ "Budget of Akshay Kumar's Housefull". Indicine.com. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
  7. ↑ "Top Worldwide Grossers ALL TIME: 37 Films Hit 100 Crore".
  8. ↑ Housefull 3 is on the cards: Sajid Nadiadwala. Hindustan Times (10 April 2012). Retrieved 21 June 2012.
  9. ↑ "Top Ten Worldwide Grossers 2012". Box Office India. 17 January 2013. Archived from the original on 20 January 2013.
  10. ↑ "Nominations for 6th Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards". Bollywood Hungama. Archived from the original on 9 January 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
  11. ↑ "Nominations for Zee Cine Awards 2011". Bollywood Hungama. Archived from the original on 16 January 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2011.

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