Dabangg 3

Dabangg 3
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Prabhu Deva
Written by	Dialogues: Dilip Shukla Aloke Upadhyaya
Screenplay by	Salman Khan Prabhu Deva Aloke Upadhyaya
Story by	Salman Khan
Produced by	Salman Khan Arbaaz Khan Nikhil Dwivedi
Starring	Salman Khan Sudeep Sonakshi Sinha Saiee Manjrekar Arbaaz Khan
Cinematography	Mahesh Limaye
Edited by	Ritesh Soni
Music by	Songs: Sajid–Wajid Score: Sandeep Shirodkar
Production companies	Salman Khan Films Arbaaz Khan Productions Saffron Broadcast & Media Limited
Distributed by	Salman Khan Films (North India) KJR Studios (Tamil Nadu) Yash Raj Films (International)[1]
Release date	20 December 2019 (2019-12-20)
Running time	141 minutes[2]
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹100 crore
Box office	est. ₹430.93 crore[3]

Dabangg 3 is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Prabhu Deva and produced by Salman Khan Films, Arbaaz Khan Productions and Saffron Broadcast & Media Limited.^[4] The third installment of the Dabangg franchise, it serves as a circumquel to Dabangg (2010) and Dabangg 2 (2012).^[5] The film features Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha and Arbaaz reprising their respective characters with Kannada actor Sudeep as the antagonist and Saiee Manjrekar in her debut role.^[6]

The story, written by Salman, is set in a fictional town in Uttar Pradesh after the events of Dabangg 2 and showcases Chulbul Pandey's origin as a police officer, after his encounter with an old rival, Bali Singh, refreshes his memory.^[7] Principal photography begun in April 2019 and shoot was completed in September 2019.^[8] It was distributed by Salman Khan Films in North India, KJR Studios in Tamil Nadu and Yash Raj Films in International.^[9]

Dabangg 3 was theatrically released worldwide on 20 December 2019, on the Pre-Christmas weekend.^[10] It opened to mixed reviews, who appreciated performance of Khan and Sudeep, but criticised for writing, music, script and screenplay.^[11] At the box office, the film's collections were further affected by the CAA protests, making it the second lowest-grossing film in the franchise. The movie was a commercial success at the box office but not as successful as the first two since they were blockbusters.^[12][13]

Plot[]

Starting again with a heroic antic, the story moves ahead from Dabangg 2 with the corrupt yet much-loved cop, ASP Chulbul Pandey, preventing a robbery at a wedding, and beating the goons and their leader, Gullu, black and blue. Gullu then agrees to return to his former part-time job as a wedding band trumpeter, and Chulbul is seen dealing with the everyday lives of his wife Rajjo, brother Makhanchand "Makkhi" Pandey, also a police officer, and his son, while his father Prajapati Pandey stays at home with Rajjo. Makkhi appears to be enjoying a lavish lifestyle most of the time. One fateful day, a despaired girl, probably injured, arrives in a hurry at Makkhi's station after escaping from somewhere and seeks help; Makkhi, expecting to punish her captors, who tried to sell her and other girls off, is joined by Chulbul, and after a scuffle, the brothers arrest Chinti Walia, who runs a prostitution racket.

While trying to force a confession out of Chinti at the police station, Chulbul intercepts a lawyer and some goons who have come over to release Chinti. Still, he tears off the court order, and in desperation, the goons leader keeps his video call going on even as Chulbul smiles into the screen. Minutes later, the leader shows the video call to Bali Singh, who sees Chulbul, who looks back into the phone camera to visit Bali. Shocked beyond words, he reminisces his younger days, recalling his fate with Bali.

Years ago, when he was still young, Chulbul, whose real name turns out to be Dhaakad Chand Pandey, fell in love with a girl, Khushi, who was initially being considered as a potential bride for Makkhi, after he noticed a photo of her in Makkhi's hand, and told his mother, Naini Devi, that he would be a good fit instead of Makkhi; a few days later, Khushi's maternal uncle Prabhat and maternal aunt Janki agreed to the match between Dhaakad and Khushi, and the two began courting each other. At the same time, Bali, a ruthless and violent goon, set his eyes on Khushi and started making arrangements for his marriage with her. However, when he saw Dhaakad with Khushi, he decided to kill Khushi and her family right in front of Dhaakad's eyes after luring him to the spot. Prabhat and Janki were both killed, and Khushi was thrown off a cliff to die. Consequently, Hariya and his daughter Rajjo, revealed to be Khushi's friend, were deeply affected; Hariya took to alcoholism, while Dhaakad, who was framed by Bali and spent much time in prison for the deaths, was taken in by Commissioner Satendar Singh after saving him from attackers, and transformed into an uptight cop, naming himself Chulbul, in Khushi's memory, forming the events of Dabangg.

At present, Chulbul, having relayed this entire episode to Prajapati and Rajjo, decides that he has had enough, and he needs to close the chapter once and for good. Meanwhile, an ill-attracted Makkhi is misled by Bali into turning against Chulbul, nearly to slap him after he too is promoted to the rank of ASP. The action causes him to be banished from home by Prajapati, and he joins hands with Bali actively. Bali, who is set to become a politician and a minister in the upcoming elections, plans to bring in a truck filled with money. Thus, he gets Makkhi and many other police officers in his circle transferred to one common location to facilitate the transportation. Chulbul intercepts the truck and turns Bali's moles in the police force against Bali himself. As revenge, Bali gets several of Chulbul's associates kidnapped and brutally beaten to near death until Chulbul breaks in again and frees them all, even when Bali has run away with Makkhi and some reliable accomplices.

Seeking to lure Bali into counterproductive action, Chulbul kidnaps Minister S. S. Sharma and his brother-in-law by staging a ploy with Gullu's help and forcing a confession of them, which is made viral. Bali notices the same, and Makkhi helps him track them down since he recognizes the hideout. Upon arriving there, Bali kills Sharma and injures his brother-in-law; in retaliation, he sends wrestlers to attack Rajjo and her son, but Chulbul arrives in time to save the two.

Sometime later, Chulbul receives a call from Prajapati, who tells him that Rajjo hasn't arrived home. Sensing Bali's hand in the matter, he invades a quarry where Bali has held Rajjo, and surprisingly, Makkhi himself, as hostages – Makkhi was always on Chulbul's side, and it was a game by the brothers to incense Bali; after an intense confrontation, Chulbul kills and buries Bali.

Cast[]

Production[]

Development[]

In 2013, it was reported that Dabangg 3 will be a prequel.^{[14][15][16][17][18]} In 2014, during the promotion of his production Dolly Ki Doli director of the series Arbaaz Khan confirmed that Dabangg 3 will indeed happen and that the pre-production of it will start soon. He added: "It has to be an out of the box idea, only then we can think of making it into a film. Dabangg 3 will not be about the story being carried forward but something very different coming in way."^[17] In March 2015, Arbaaz Khan said that he may not direct Dabangg 3 due to the high workload of being a producer, actor and director.^[19] In April 2015, Arbaaz Khan said that the film may take one or two years to shape up as it was postponed due to Sultan.^[20] After much speculation,^[21][22] it is confirmed in August 2016, that Sonakshi Sinha will be part of Dabangg 3 and another actress might join her.^[23][24]

Later in that month it was reported that Kajol was offered the role of an antagonist, but she refused to play it, as she told the media that "her role was not as strong as that of Salman".^[25]

In October 2017, it was reported that the writers had started scripting the film, and it would go on floors by the mid 2018.^[26][27][28] In the following month, it was confirmed by Arbaaz Khan that Prabhu Deva would direct the film, and he will look after the creative control.^[29] As of March 2018, Deva confirmed that he will direct the film and Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha and Arbaaz Khan will be portray their earlier respective character. Sajid–Wajid will again compose for the film soundtrack. On 31 March 2019, Salman and Arbaaz arrived in Indore to begin shooting for Dabangg 3 from 1 April.^[30]

Filming[]

On 31 March 2019, Salman and Arbaaz arrived in Maheshwar to shoot for the title song.

Soundtrack[]

Dabangg 3
Soundtrack album by Sajid–Wajid
Released	13 November 2019 (2019-11-13)[31]
Recorded	2019
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Language	Hindi
Label	T-Series
Sajid–Wajid chronology
Pagalpanti (2019) Dabangg 3 (2019) 3 Dev (2020)
External audio Official Audio Jukebox on YouTube

The film's music is composed by Sajid–Wajid while lyrics are written by Jalees Sherwani, Danish Sabri, Sameer Anjaan, Sajid Khan and Irrfan Kamal.

The track "Hud Hud" was previously recreated for the second film. The original version as well as the recreations are composed by Sajid–Wajid.

Release[]

Before some months of filming, Dabangg 3 was said to be slated for release on 22 May 2020, coinciding with Eid-ul-Fitr. But when it was announced that Inshallah, another film starring Khan, was scrapped the release date of Dabangg 3 was advanced to 20 December 2019, coinciding with Christmas.^[32]

The film was theatrically released in India on 20 December 2019 along with dubbed versions in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu languages.^[10]

Critical Response[]

Anupama Chopra said "But here’s what I don’t get – when so much time, talent and money is being expended to showcase the superstar, why not also provide him with a script? You see flashes of the fun and cheekiness that made Chulbul so entertaining in the first film but mostly, Dabangg 3 is a checklist of fight, song, family scene strung together in no particular order."^[33] Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave 1.5 stars out of 5, commenting "What’s genuinely disappointing is that the irreverence, the lightness of touch that was the hallmark of the first film can be spotted but only in flashes. Chulbul Pandey appears to have become a caricature of himself, and Salman Khan makes very little effort to pump fresh oxygen into the part."^[34]

Box office[]

Dabangg 3's opening day domestic collection was ₹24.50 crore. On the second day, the film collected ₹23.75 crore. On the third day, the film collected ₹30.50 crore, taking the total opening weekend collection to ₹787.5 million.^[3] In USA, Dabangg 3 Collected ₹ 7.88 Crores, Australia collection was 439,530 Australian Dollar or ₹ 3.20 Crores.^[35]

As of 19 January 2020, with a gross of ₹173.94 crore in India and ₹56.99 crore overseas, the film has a worldwide gross collection of ₹330.93 crore and has become the tenth highest grossing Bollywood film of 2019.^[36][3]

References[]

External links[]

• Dabangg 3 at IMDb
• Dabangg 3 on Bollywood Hungama
• Dabangg 3 at Rotten Tomatoes