Priyadarshan Opens Up On Challenges Of Making Hera Pheri 3, Shares Big Update
Updated on: 01 April, 2025 01:09 PM IST |Shweta Shah
Priyadarshan shares update on Hera Pheri 3
The Hera Pheri franchise has not only become a cult classic but also gained a massive fan base over the years. As fans excitedly wait for the third instalment of the comedy drama, director Priyadarshan has shared a major update about Hera Pheri 3.
Priyadarshan sat down for a candid chat with ETV Bharat and opened up on the popularity of the Hera Pheri franchise. He even spoke about the challenges he is facing while writing the third part of the film.
He said, “I was very confident that Hera Pheri would work, but I never expected it to become a cult film. It had decent humour and excellent performances. People never believed that Akshay, Suniel, and Paresh could pull off a comedy because those days they were doing different kinds of movies. But it surprised them, and the success of Hera Pheri was a turning point in their career.”
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"I enjoyed every bit of what I was shooting those days. The moment you start enjoying and executing something and you know you can see it is working, automatically, I think it is going well,” he continued.
Sharing a major update about Hera Pheri 3, Priyadarshan mentioned that he will start writing the movie in 2026.
“I plan to start work, start writing Hera Pheri 3 sometime next year. It is going to be very challenging to make the third part because there will be too many expectations. People are waiting to see Akshay, Paresh, and Suniel again, and we always say that it is easy to make people cry and it is easy to scare people, but to make them laugh is very difficult, and that too without using double entendre dialogues... You have to make humour so pure and identifiable," he mentioned.
The filmmaker further added, "Then, humour also changes, and the taste of the society changes. We have to catch up with that. Characters have gotten older, and accordingly, people should believe…these are important things. I am taking it as a challenge. Let’s see how it works.”
For the uninitiated, Hera Pheri is a remake of the blockbuster Malayalam comedy Ramjo Rao Speaking. The director also spoke about how he tried his best to keep the essence of the original movie alive while remaking it in Hindi.
He said, “We have changed almost 30 per cent from the original to fit it into the Bollywood style, and it started the trend for comedy films. I made quite a few comedies after Hera Pheri, such as Hungama, Garam Masala, and Maalamaal Weekly. I always felt that families get drawn towards humorous films …it is the genre that attracts grandparents to grandchildren, something that they enjoy watching together, and that is why I attempt humour plus slapstick. It is something in the zone of Charlie Chaplin films, what you call `humour of poverty. I call Hera Pheri the humour of poverty”.
Hera Pheri was headlined by Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal, and Suniel Shetty as Raju, Babu Bhaiyya, and Shyam, respectively. The film also featured Tabu in the first instalment, with Rimi Sen and Bipasha Basu playing key roles in the second part.
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