Akshay’s ‘Housefull 5’, Kartik’s ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3’ to clash at box office on Diwali next year
The festival of lights next year promises plenty of fireworks for moviegoers, as a clutch of much-awaited Bollywood films are lining up for release around that time.
Bollywood has seen several big box office clashes and moviegoers are set for another mega clash between Akshay Kumar’s ‘Housefull 5’ and Kartik Aaryan’s ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3’.
The makers of the fifth instalment of the hit comedy franchise, ‘Housefull’, starring Akshay Kumar, on Thursday unveiled the official release date of their film. Helmed by Tarun Mansukhani, the film is all set to hit the theatres on Diwali 2024.
‘Housefull 5’ marks the first-ever franchise film in Indian Cinema to have 5 instalments.
Taking to Instagram, Akshay shared a poster of ‘Housefull 5’ which he captioned, “Get ready for FIVE times the madness!. Bringing to y’all #SajidNadiadwala’s #Housefull5 Directed by @tarun_mansukhani. See you in cinemas on Diwali 2024!”
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Akshay and Riteish Deshmukh are set to reunite for the fifth instalment of this franchise.
Sharing the film’s poster, Riteish wrote, “We’re back! And this time, we’re surely going to make your Diwali brighter! Presenting our next one in the franchise!.”
Mansukhani is known for films like ‘Dostana’, which starred Priyanka Chopra, John Abraham, Abhishek Bachchan and Bobby Deol and was declared a hit.
Apart from that, he also directed Sushant Singh Rajput’s action-thriller ‘Drive’ which premiered on the OTT platform Netflix.
The first instalment ‘Housefull’ was released in the year 2010 and starred Akshay, Riteish, Lara Dutta, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Rampal and Boman Irani. The film was declared a hit, followed by another hit sequel ‘Housefull 2’ which was released in the year 2012 and included a stellar cast of Akshay, Ritiesh, John Abraham, Shreyas Talpade, Jacqueline Fernandez, Rishi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty and Asin. Both of the parts were helmed by director Sajid Khan.
Sajid was replaced in the third instalment of the film by director duo Sajid Samji and Farhad Samji. The film was released in 2016.
Director Farhad Samji helmed the fourth part of the franchise which was a reincarnation comedy film.
