Total Dhamaal

Total Dhamaal (also known as Dhamaal 3) ( Total fun) is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Indra Kumar. It is the third installment of the Dhamaal film series. It is a sequel to 2011's Double Dhamaal. The film stars Ajay Devgn, Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor, Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi and Javed Jaffrey in leading roles, and Esha Gupta in a guest appearance. The film was released on 22 February 2019. The film is a slapstick comedy loosely borrowed from 1963 Hollywood film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. The film grossed inr 2260000000 worldwide thus becoming the 3rd highest grossing Bollywood film of 2019.

Plot
Total Dhamaal starts with a different storyline from Dhamaal and Double Dhamaal. Guddu (Ajay Devgan) and his partner Johnny (Sanjay Mishra) steals ₹500 million of black money from the Police commissioner of Mumbai (Boman Irani). As they put the suitcases containing ty the money in car, Pintoo (Manoj Pahwa), driving the car runs with the money double crossing Guddu and Johnny. After that we are introduced with the other characters of the movie – Bindu Patel (Madhuri Dixit), Avinash Patel (Anil Kapoor), Lallan (Riteish Deshmukh), Aditya Shrivastav (Arshad Warsi), and Manav Shrivastav (Jaaved Jaffrey). Adi and Manav are the only characters same as the prequels.

1 month later, Pintoo plans to leave the country but Guddu and Johney catch him. While running from them, Pintoo gets onto a private plane but the plane crashes as the pilot of the plane was a cleaner. The plane crashes and Guddu-Johnny, Avinaash-Bindu, Lallan-Jhingur and Adi-Manav meet Pintoo at the spot of crashing. Pintoo tells them that he has kept the money at Janakpur zoo under an 'OK'. The four groups start their journey for Janakpur and after lot of troubles finally reach Janakpur zoo. Guddu falls in love with the zoo supervisor Prachi (Esha Gupta). When they are searching for the OK, a goon Chinnappa Swami (Mahesh Manjrekar) comes and tries to kill all the animals by poison but the money seekers save them and overpower the goon. Finally the commissioner also comes there and they decide to distribute the money by 6 parts as 1 part will be used for the animals of the zoo.

Cast

 * Anil Kapoor as Avinash Patel
 * Madhuri Dixit as Bindu Patel
 * Ajay Devgn as Guddu
 * Riteish Deshmukh as Lallan Bhai
 * Arshad Warsi as Aditya "Adi" Shrivastav
 * Javed Jaffrey as Manav Shrivastav Ji
 * Sanjay Mishra as Jonny
 * Pitobash Tripathy as Jhingur
 * Esha Gupta as Pricholota, A bengali zoo supervisor
 * Johnny Lever as Pilot of Auto Choper
 * Boman Irani as a Police Commissioner
 * Vijay Patkar as Inspector Patkar
 * Manoj Pahwa as Pinku Choksey
 * Mahesh Manjrekar as Chinappa Swamy
 * Crystal the Monkey as Prachi's friend
 * Ali as the Tamilian guide
 * Sudesh Lehri as Altaaf
 * Niharica Raizada as Adi’s love interest
 * Jackie Shroff (Voice only)
 * Sonakshi Sinha (special appearance in song "Mungda")

Development
Besides Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi and Javed Jaffrey, director Indra Kumar signed Ajay Devgn for the third part of his Dhamaal film series in late May 2017. Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit were also signed in mid-November 2017 marking their collaboration after seventeen years when they acted together in the film Beta. Esha Gupta was signed in June 2018.

In late December 2017, Ajay Devgn FFilms collaborated with Fox Star Studios to produce the film. Pen India Limited and Mangl Murti Films came on board as co-producers.

Filming
Principal photography commenced in Mumbai on 9 January 2018.

Soundtrack
Music for the film is composed by Gourov-Roshin, with lyrics by Kumaar and Kunwar Juneja.

Marketing
The first teaser look of the film is released on 14 January 2019. The first look theatrical poster was released on 18 January 2019. The second look poster released on 19 January 2019 with trailer release date announcement on 21 January 2019. Third official theatrical poster of the film is unveiled on 20 January 2019. It is promising "The wildest adventure ever!"

Two theatrical fresh look posters of the film are made public on 21 January 2019. These have pictures of main cast on it.

The official trailer of film was released on 21 January 2019. To boost their marketing efforts Fox Star Hindi has released the spoof trailers of the film in different Indian languages.

The Video Song from film titled as "Paisa Paisa" was premiered on 29 January 2019.

The film was set to release worldwide on 7 December 2018 but due to extended VFX work the release date has been pushed back to February 22, 2019. The film has been certified with runtime of 127 mins by British Board of Film Classification and all set to release on schedule. The film was released on 22 February 2019 on 3700 screens in India and on 786 screens in overseas market making worldwide count of 4486 screens.

After Pulwama attack, Ajay Devgn and Total Dhamaal makers have decided not to release Total Dhamaal in Pakistan. The makers of the film including the entire crew, actors and makers have donated ₹50 lakhs to families of soldiers who died in the Pulwama attack.

Home media
The film became available as VOD on Hotstar on 20 April 2019.

Critical response
Going by Rotten Tomatoes, the film has scored 43% based on 7 reviews. Taran Adarsh rated the film with three stars and found it entertaining and loaded with clean humour. Himesh Mankad from Koimoi gives 3 star out of 5 says "Total Dhamaal is a fair clean entertainer that can be enjoyed with the entire family. It's definitely an improvement over previous installment Double Dhamaal" Trade analyst Sumit M kadel stated that "Total Dhamaal is funny specially in Ist half. Its a no brainer fast paced family entertainer, lavishly shot & well performed by Ajay Devgn, Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor, Riteish Deshmukh & the entire cast. 2nd half is moderate & it could have been better. Overall Good film." Rating- 3 out of 5 Ronak Kotecha writing for The Times of India gave two stars out of five and feels that in the ensemble cast, the film had the potential to be a comic roller coaster ride. He concluded saying "However, the fact that the film is slapstick is not a problem, what brings it down is poor writing and execution." Raja Sen writing for Hindustan Times rated the film with one star out of five.

Box office
The opening day (non-holiday) collection of the film from Indian market was ₹16.50 crore. Its lifetime domestic gross collection was ₹182.09 crore and from overseas markets it was ₹44.19 crore. The worldwide gross collection of the film was ₹226.28 crore and domestic nett collection was ₹154.23 crore. The film grossed inr 1000000000 worldwide in three days of release. In opening week the film grossed inr 1500000000. In 12 days of its release the film crossed inr 2000000000 mark in gross collection.