Housefull

Films and overview

Housefull (2010 film)

Aarush, is a jinxed loser who stays with his friend, Bob and his wife, Hetal, both working at a casino owned by Mr. Kishore Samtani. 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. After the marriage, on their honeymoon in Italy, Devika leaves him for her long-time American boyfriend Benny. Dejected, Aarush tries to commit suicide by drowning in the sea but is saved by a girl Sandy.

Sandy originally thinks Aarush is a pervert, but when Aakhri Pasta, 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 does not know, is that Aakhri Pasta was only joking. She then finds out his wife is alive and leaves him, but he tells her the whole truth to make her understand and she accepts him.

The only way Aarush can marry Sandy is by convincing her elder brother, Major Krishna Rao, a strict Indian Military Intelligence officer who loves and is over-protective of Sandy. Meanwhile, Hetal, in an attempt to reconcile, lies to her father, Batuk Patel, 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 and 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 two workers meanwhile stop the gas from spreading – everyone comes back to their senses. Aarush tells everyone the truth and states all his life he had felt like an unlucky loser and has had the most horrible luck. leaves the altar in tears. However Krishna stops him and tells him that he lied, saying he was cursed, stating no man that his sister loves is cursed. In the end, Hetal and Bob live together with Batuk Patel, and Aarush's luck changes for the better.

Housefull 2 (2012 film)

The two cousins Heena and Bobby, daughters of the Kapoor family, hate each other very much. They start quarrelling over something relating to their duties of Animals' Law Authority. Their fathers, Chintu and Dabboo, 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, a marriage counsellor, is ordered by both Chintu and Dabboo to find the best son-in-law. Aakhri Pasta brings Mr. Babani 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 learns of this, is angered, then vows revenge, telling his friend Jolly/Jwala, who is the son of billionaire J.D., 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, 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, does not know what to do and Jolly suggests another former sleazy college mate, Sunny. 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 on a cruise, they accidentally end up on an island. Max and Sunny become friends again, while Heena and Bobby become friends. 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 marrying 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 fiancé (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.

Housefull 3 (2016 film)

Six years ago in London, three robbers attempted to steal jewels from a building, but were stopped by the police and arrested. In the present, Batook Patel is a wealthy and successful businessman with three beautiful daughters: Ganga, Jamuna, and Saraswati. However, he does not want his daughters to marry, as he claims that all the women in his family are cursed if they marry.

One night, at a friend's bachelorette party, the girls reveal to their friend that secretly, they each have a boyfriend. Jamuna's boyfriend is Teddy, who is a race car driver. Saraswati's boyfriend is Bunty, who is a rapper. Ganga's boyfriend is Sandy, who wants to be a professional football/soccer player. Sandy learns that he is suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder and his 'Sundi' comes out whenever he hears the word "Indian". His disorder comes from being depressed about not having enough money to make a living. Sandy sees Batook's success in the paper, and decides to date his doctor who is Batook's daughter, Ganga. When the girls tell their dad that they each have a boyfriend, Batook goes to his friend, Aakhri Pasta, who owns an Italian restaurant. Batook convinces Pasta to dress up as the family's fortune teller, Aakhri Aasta. Aasta claims that when Ganga's boyfriend first steps foot into Batook's house, Jamuna's boyfriend first sees Batook, or when Saraswati's boyfriend first speaks to Batook, then Batook will have a heart attack, and die. The girls, wanting to keep their boyfriends, have them fake disabilities. Sandy rides around in a motorised wheelchair, and claims he cannot use his feet. Teddy wears sunglasses and uses a cane, and claims he is blind. Bunty uses sign language, and claims that he is mute. Batook decides to test the boys to make sure if they are really disabled, by putting ants in Sandy's pants, having Teddy jump in an empty pool, and injuring Bunty to see if he screams. When Batook is out of the house, the boys reveal themselves to each other as not being disabled. Since they all want Batook's money, they decide not to tell on each other, as they each have a recording of the other. At Pasta's restaurant, Batook reveals to Pasta that his daughters are actually the daughters of Urja Nagre, an underworld crime lord. Nagre was caught when someone informed the police. While in jail, Nagre requested Batook take care of his daughters in London, but make sure that they never found out that Nagre was their father. Batook also reveals that he was the one who informed the police, and did not want the girls to marry until his sons (the robbers in the beginning of the film) got out of prison. Unbeknownst to him, Nagre is out of prison, and has arrived in London.

The boys go into town, where they encounter Nagre. The boys claim interchangeably of their disabilities in front of him. Bunty as crippled. Sandy as blind, and Teddy as mute. Later, Nagre goes to Batook's office, and ask him about his daughters's future husbands. Batook says that while the girls' future husbands are disabled, he knows three normal men who are suitable for the daughters. Batook takes Nagre to a Gurdwara to see his sons, Rishi, Rohan, and Rajeev, claiming they are orphans who do community service. Nagre decides that the three are suitable for his daughters. They make a plan.

Housefull 4 (2019 film)

Harry is a barber who frequently has bizarre flashes of a past era. He runs a barber shop in London with his brothers Roy and Max. The three brothers had misplaced a bag of 5 million pounds which belonged to gangster Michael Bhai. His henchman Big Bhai constantly demands the money. To fulfil this demand, the three brothers get engaged to the three daughters of London's rich business tycoon Thakral (Ranjeet): Harry is dating Pooja, Roy is dating Neha and Max is dating Kriti. Mysterious circumstances cause the destination wedding to take place in Sitamgarh, India. On arriving in Sitamgarh, Aakhri Pasta, a bellboy at their hotel, recognises them as reincarnations of people that lived 600 years ago, i.e. in 1419. Harry realises that the flashes he sees have something to do with what Pasta was talking about and drives to the nearby town of Madhavgarh, where he starts to see the flashes clearly.

In 1419, Rajkumar Bala Dev Singh of Madhavgarh was banished by his father, Maharaj Parikshitap, since Bala tried to kill him to become King. Bala's servant Pehla Pasta informs him of Sitamgarh - a nearby kingdom whose King, Maharaj Surya Singh Rana, is looking for grooms for his three daughters: Rajkumari Madhu, Rajkumari Mala and Rajkumari Meena. Bala plans to marry Rajkumari Madhu, the eldest Princess, so that he becomes the King of Sitamgarh.

Bala meets Bangdu Maharaj, an effeminate dance teacher who has an affair with Mala. Meena is secretly in love with the brave bodyguard of the three princesses, Dharamputra. Bala helps the two couples get together and enlists their help for uniting him with Madhu. The plan works and Maharaj Surya Singh Rana announces the wedding of Madhu with Bala, Mala with Bangdu Maharaj, and Meena with Dharamputra. However, Suryabhan, Surya Singh Rana's nephew, wants the throne for himself. He kills the brother of Sitamgarh's enemy clan's leader, Gama and frames the three couples for it. On the day of the wedding, Gama storms into the fort and fights them to avenge his brother. During the fight, Bala realises that he now truly loves Madhu, even though initially she was just the path to the throne for him. During the fight, the wedding mandap (altar) collapses and kills the three couples along with Gama.

Back in the present, Harry realises that the grooms are about to marry the wrong brides. Pasta helps Harry remind Roy and Max of their lives as Bangdu Maharaj and Dharamputra, respectively. Just then, they are introduced to Pappu Rangeela, a qawwali singer and a family friend of the girls. He is the reincarnation of Gama but has no recollection of his past life. Meanwhile, Pasta finds a painting of their past lives' wedding day which shows Bala with Madhu, Bangdu with Mala, and Dharamputra with Meena. Before they can show this painting to the girls to remind them of their past lives, it gets in the hands of Pappu Rangeela and he remembers his life as Gama.

Housefull 5 (A&B) (2025 film)

On his 100th birthday, billionaire Ranjeet Dobriyal hosts a lavish party on a luxury cruise ship. Attending are his son Dev, adopted son Shiraz, loyal bodyguard Batuk, CFO Maya, the cunning and enigmatic COO Bedi, the ship's captain Sameer, and other guests. During the celebration, as the ship sets sail, Ranjeet suddenly dies of a heart attack.

Fearing the news will cause Ranjeet group's stock to plummet, Dev and the board decide to keep his death a secret. However, Ranjeet's lawyer Lucy activates his holographic will, revealing that his entire £69 billion fortune is left to his son Jolly from his first marriage to Shakuntala Devi. The will specifies bizarre identifiers for Jolly: he is left-handed, married to a foreigner, and has a very distinctive scar on his butt.

Soon, three men—Jalabuddin, Jalbushan, and Julius—arrive with their wives, each claiming to be Jolly and providing identical proof. Unable to determine the true heir, Dev suggests a DNA test. Chaos erupts when the ship's clown, Aakhri Pasta, attempts to drug Batuk by spiking his drink, but the drink is accidentally mixed into the communal punch, causing everyone to lose consciousness.

The next morning, the three men wake up in the wrong cabins, with the wrong wives, and no memory of the previous night. The situation worsens when the doctor assigned to perform the DNA test is found murdered. Suspicion falls on the three men and their wives, and Dev orders them all locked in the ship's jail until Interpol arrives.

The men confess to each other that they are all impostors and none of the women are their real wives. It is then revealed that Julius is a private detective hired by Ranjeet to find his son, the real Jolly. However, when Julius learned about Jolly's characteristics, he decided to take Jolly's identity. He then told his plan to his wife Kanchi, who was secretly the girlfriend of Jalabuddin. However, since Kanchi was going with Julius, he decided to take Zara with him and told Zara about the plan. However, Zara is Jalbhushan's girlfriend, who informs him of this. But since Zara is going with Jalabuddin, Jalbhushan informs Sasikala about the plan.

They plan an escape, and the women crawl through air vents to destroy DNA evidence. While in the lab—converted into a morgue—they notice Bedi acting suspiciously.

Cast

Akshay Kumar and Riteish Deshmukh have starred in all five of the films, as does Chunky Panday in a supporting role.

Housefull

Akshay Kumar as Aarush Awasthi

Riteish Deshmukh as Boman "Bob" Rao

Deepika Padukone as Saundarya "Sandy" Bhagayalaxmi Venkateshwari Basapa Rao, Arush's ex-half-sister-in-law, then girlfriend; Krishna's sister

Arjun Rampal as Major Krishna Rao, Sandy's brother; Aarush's ex-half-brother-in-law and then brother-in-law

Lara Dutta as Hetal Patel Bob's wife & Batook's daughter

Jiah Khan as Devika Aarush's ex-wife then half-sister-in-law;Kishore's daughter

Boman Irani as Batook Patel, Hetal's father & Bob's father-in-law

Chunky Panday as Aakhri Pasta

Malaika Arora Khan as Pooja

Randhir Kapoor as Kishore Samtani Devika's father

Jacqueline Fernandez as Dhanno (Special appearance in song "Aapka Kya Hoga")

Daisy Irani as Batuk Patel's mother

Lillete Dubey as Zulekha Bano

Vindu Dara Singh as security guard

Suresh Menon as Santa Singh

Manoj Pahwa as Banta Singh

Housefull 2

Akshay Kumar as Sunil "Sunny" Pujari

Asin as Heena Kapoor-Pujari; Chintu and Sweety's daughter, Sunny's wife

John Abraham as Max Mehrotkar

Jacqueline Fernandez as Bobby Kapoor-Mehrotkar; Dabboo and Dolly's daughter, Max's wife

Ritesh Deshmukh as Jwala "Jolly" Kanojia

Zareen Khan as Jayshree "Jaina/J-Lo" Loganathan-Kanojia; Jolly's wife

Shreyas Talpade as Jai Babani

Shazahn Padamsee as Parul Patel-Babani; Batuk's daughter, Jai's wife

Rishi Kapoor as Chintu Kapoor; Sweety's husband, Heena's father, Sunny's father in-law

Suparna Marwah as Sweety Kapoor; Chintu's wife, Heena's mother, Sunny's mother in-law

Randhir Kapoor as Dabboo Kapoor; Dolly's husband, Bobby's father, Max's father in-law

Neelu Kohli as Dolly Kapoor; Dabboo's wife, Bobby's mother, Max's mother in-law

Mithun Chakraborty as Jagga "JD" Kanojia (Jagga Daaku); Jolly's father, Jelo's father in-law

Johnny Lever as Mithai Patil; JD's right-hand

Boman Irani as Batook Patel; Parul's father, Jai's father in-law

Virendra Saxena as Mr. Babani; Jai's father, Parul's father in-law

Housefull 3

Akshay Kumar as Sanket "Sandy/Sundi" Sehgal

Riteish Deshmukh as Tukaram "Teddy" Chaugule

Abhishek Bachchan as Bunty Malhotra

Jacqueline Fernandez as Ganga "Gracy" Nagre

Lisa Haydon as Jamuna "Jenny" Nagre

Nargis Fakhri as Saraswati "Sara" Nagre

Boman Irani as Batook Patel

Jackie Shroff as Urja Nagre

Chunky Panday as Aakhri Pasta/Aakhri Aastha

Samir Kochhar as Rishi Patel

Nikitin Dheer as Rohan Patel

Arav Chowdharry as Rajeev Patel

Housefull 4

Akshay Kumar as Harry/Rajkumar Bala Dev Singh

Riteish Deshmukh as Roy/Bangdu Maharaj

Bobby Deol as Max/Dharamputra

Kriti Sanon as Kriti/Rajkumari Madhu

Pooja Hegde as Pooja/Rajkumari Mala

Kriti Kharbanda as Neha/Rajkumari Meena

Chunky Panday as Aakhri Pasta/Pehla Pasta

Rana Daggubati as Pappu Rangeela/Gama

Ranjeet as Manraj Thakral/Maharaja Surya Singh Rana

Sharad Kelkar as Michael Bhai/Suryabhan

Johnny Lever as Winston Churchgate

Jamie Lever as Giggly

Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Ramsey Baba

Manoj Pahwa as Big Bhai

Parikshit Sahni as Maharaja Parikshitap

Archana Puran Singh as Harry, Roy, and Max's mother (photo only)

Shakti Kapoor as Harry, Roy, and Max's father (photo only)

Sham Mashalkar as Darbari

Prithvi Zutshi as Siskeria

Saurabh Srivastava as Lakhan

Housefull 5 (A&B)

Akshay Kumar as Julius (Jolly 3)

Riteish Deshmukh as Jalabuddin (Jolly 1)

Abhishek Bachchan as Jalbhushan (Jolly 2), partner of the killer (in both version A&B)

Jacqueline Fernandez as Sasikala, Jalbhushan's fake wife and later Julius wife

Sonam Bajwa as Zara Akhtar, Jalabuddin's fake wife and later the original Jolly's wife.

Nargis Fakhri as Kaanchi, Julius' fake wife & Jalabuddin's real wife

Sanjay Dutt as Chief inspector Bhidu (later Baba)

Jackie Shroff as Chief inspector Baba (later Bhidu)

Nana Patekar as Superintendent Dhagdu Hulgund, Bhidu and Baba's senior police officer

Chitrangda Singh as Maya, Baba's ex-wife, Killer (in version B)

Fardeen Khan as Dev Dobriyal, Ranjeet Dobriyal's second son, CEO of board of directors, Killer (in version A)

Chunky Panday as Aakhri Pasta

Johnny Lever as Batuk Patel

Shreyas Talpade as Shiraz Shabuddin Siliguriwale, CMO of board of directors

Dino Morea as Bedi, COO of board of directors

Soundarya Sharma as Lucy, Baba's girlfriend and Ranjeet Dobriyal's lawyer

Reception

Box office

Critical reception

Music

The music was composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy in the first film and Sajid-Wajid in the second instalment. In the third film, songs were composed by Sharib-Toshi, Sohail Sen, Mika Singh, Tanishk Bagchi and Millind Gaba. In the fourth instalment, music was composed by Sohail Sen, Farhad Samji and Sandeep Shirodkar. In the fifth instalment, music was composed by Yo Yo Honey Singh, White Noise Collectives, Tanishk Bagchi, Kratex, Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, Sajid–Wajid and Julius Packiam.

The whole movies soundtrack rights are by T-Series due to Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment's lifetime contract with Bhushan Kumar.

Awards and nominations

Housefull

6th Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards

Nominated

Best Performance in Comic Role – Riteish Deshmukh

2011 Zee Cine Awards

Nominated

Best Director – Sajid Khan

Best Actor – Akshay Kumar

Best Music – Shankar Ehsaan Loy

Best Supporting Actress – Lara Dutta

Best Comedian – Riteish Deshmukh

Zee Cine Award for Best Track of the Year – "Aapka Kya Hoga (Dhanno)"

IIFA Awards

Won

Best Performance in a Comic Role – Riteish Deshmukh

Stardust Awards

Won

Star of the Year – Male – Akshay Kumar

Best Supporting Actor – Arjun Rampal

Housefull 2

IIFA Awards

Nominated

IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress - Jacqueline Fernandez

Housefull 3

Stardust Awards

Nominated

Best Actress Female - Jacqueline Fernandez