Paresh Rawal Confirms Hera Pheri 3, Kartik Aaryan To Join Akshay Kumar & Suniel Shetty

Actor Kartik Aaryan is set to join the team of the third instalment of the popular Hindi comedy film franchise Hera Pheri. Paresh Rawal, who plays the role of Baburao Ganpatrao Apte in both Hera Pheri and Phir Hera Pheri, took to Twitter to make the announcement.

In an answer to a Twitter user’s question “@SirPareshRawal sir is it true that kartik aryan is doing Hera Pheri 3 ??” Rawal answered, “Yes it’s true.”

Yes it’s true . https://t.co/JtdI4Yp2nb

— Paresh Rawal (@SirPareshRawal) November 11, 2022

However, there has been no clarity on if he is an additional cast in the film or he will be replacing any of the previous actors. In 2022 itself, Aaryan starred in the sequel of the Akshay Kumar starrer Bhool Bhulaiyaa and went on to make it one of the highest grossing films of the year.

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Though earlier, there were a few media reports that Akshay Kumar will reprise his iconic character Raju in the sequel of Hera Pheri 3, there have been more recent reports suggesting that he is backing out of the project allegedly due to no clarity in the script. There have been rumours that he is also retrieving from the upcoming sequels of Awara Pagal Deewana, where he was to reprise his role of Guru Gulab Khatri, and Welcome where he played the character of Rajeev .

The first instalment, Hera Pheri was directed by Priyadarshan, written by Neeraj Vora, and starred Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, and Paresh Rawal in the lead along with Tabu, Om Puri, and Gulshan Grover in pivotal roles, released in 2000. The film is a remake of the 1989 Malayalam film Ramji Rao Speaking, which was in tune inspired by the 1971 television film See The Man Run.

The story revolves around Raju (Kumar) and Shyam (Shetty), who live as tenants under the landlord Baburao. During a time of desperate need for money, the trio chance upon a ransom call via a cross-connection following which they hatch a plan to claim the ransom for themselves.

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The second instalment in the franchise, Phir Hera Pheri, released six years later in 2006, written and directed by Vora, where Shetty, Kumar, and Rawal reprised their roles as leads. In this sequel, Bipasha Basu, Rimi Sen, Johnny Lever, and Rajpal Yadav joined in. This was inspired by the 1998 British black comedy crime film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

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