Welcome is an Indian comedy film series, produced by Firoz Nadiadwala, and directed by Anees Bazmee and Ahmed Khan. The first film Welcome was released on 21 December 2007 and its sequel, Welcome Back was released on 4 September 2015. A third, standalone film, titled Welcome to the Jungle was released on 26 June 2026.
Overview
Welcome (2007 film)
Uday, a criminal don, decides to find a husband for his kind-hearted sister Sanjana, but he is unsuccessful since no one wants to be associated with a crime family. Dr. Ghunghroo has also been trying to get his nephew, Rajiv, married but due to his condition—the alliance must be with a purely decent family—he is also unsuccessful.
When Rajiv jumps into a burning building to save Sanjana, he is smitten by her. Uday and Majnu, Uday's brother gangster hatch a plan for an alliance with Dr. Ghunghroo. The plan works and Dr. Ghunghroo confirms the alliance, thinking that Uday is a very decent man. But when he is later told that Uday and Majnu are mobsters, he quickly takes his family and flees to Sun City, South Africa to escape. However, Majnu and Sanjana have come to Sun City as well. Rajiv meets Sanjana again and the two fall in love.
Dr. Ghunghroo reconciles with Uday and Majnu and finally agrees to the alliance. Uday and Majnu invite a powerful don of the underworld, RDX to the engagement. At the party, a girl named Ishika arrives, claiming to be Rajiv's childhood betrothed. Ishika is actually the sister-in-law of Dr.Ghunghroo whom Dr. Ghunghroo asked to come and try to break off the engagement. Ishika manages to do so, leaving Rajiv and Sanjana heartbroken. Dr. Ghunghroo reveals that he did this for Rajiv's mother, who had married into a crime family and was harassed and tortured, thus telling Dr. Ghunghroo to raise Rajiv away from crime when he was born. Dr. Ghunghroo decides he will agree to the marriage only if Uday and Majnu give up their life of crime. Rajiv and Sanjana do this by reawakening Uday's love for acting and encouraging Majnu to pursue his love for painting. With these things keeping them busy, Uday and Majnu have no time for crime any more.
Rajiv's actions anger RDX's son, Lucky, who attempts to shoot Rajiv. Sanjana gets hold of the gun and fires a shot that hits Lucky, causing him to go unconscious. RDX is informed of his son's death and comes to attend the cremation. However Lucky, who is still alive, escapes, trying to show his father that he's actually alive. RDX sets the pile of wood on fire, believing he is cremating his son's body. However Lucky, who had been hiding under the wood, jumps out upon realising the wood is on fire, and the truth is revealed to RDX. Rajiv, Ghunghroo, his wife, Ishika, Uday, Majnu and Sanjana are captured by RDX and brought to a cabin set next to a cliff. The frightened group is forced to play Passing the Parcel (Hot Potato) with a globe—but the one who ends up with the globe must jump off the cliff. When Rajiv refuses to pass the globe to Sanjana, Lucky angrily yanks it out of his hands, just as the music stops. Now that his son has the globe, RDX figures the only way he can maintain his image is by killing everyone. Before he can, several government brokers sneak up and cut the footings of the cabin, causing the house to start falling over the cliff, with everyone trapped inside. However, the cabin is suspended by only one column. Hilarious chaos ensues as the group tries to balance the cabin together and keep it from falling off the cliff. Rajiv finds a rope and the group uses it to get back onto stable ground. But to everyone's shock, the floor breaks and Lucky is found hanging on the edge of the cabin. While Rajiv is trying to rescue him, Sanjana reveals the truth to everyone that she was the one who shot Lucky, but Rajiv blamed himself so that Sanjana wouldn't get in trouble. After Rajiv rescues Lucky, the cabin he is standing on falls off into the cliff. Sanjana keeps crying for him thinking he is dead. However, Rajiv survives the event and is reunited with Sanjana and his family. Lucky and RDX are grateful to Rajiv for saving their lives and RDX gives up his life of crime, allowing Rajiv and Sanjana to finally get married.
Welcome Back (2015 film)
Uday Shetty and Majnu Bhai end a life of crime and become honest businessmen, settling in Dubai. Two conwomen from India, Poonam and Babita (Ankita Shrivastava), present themselves as Maharani Padmavati and Rajkumari Chandini of Najafgarh to con Uday and Majnu of their money. Babita causes the two men to fall in love with her, thus getting them to finance herself and Poonam's luxurious lifestyle. Later, it is revealed that Uday has another sister Ranjana from his father's third marriage and Majnu and Uday are emotionally blackmailed by Uday's father into arranging the marriage of Ranjana and are also forced to do so as Poonam makes that one of her conditions for getting Babita married to either one of them.
The movie then shifts to Dr. Ghunguroo, who has found out that he has a step son from his wife's previous marriage, Ajju a.k.a. Ajay. Ajju is a local goon of Mumbai, where Ranjana studies. Through a chain of hilarious events, they both fall in love with each other. Meanwhile, Majnu and Uday arrange the marriage of Ranjana with the step-son of Doctor Ghunguroo, not knowing that he is a goon. However, at the engagement ceremony, Majnu reveals the truth of Ajju, to which Ajju resists with a fight, threatening to marry Ranjana without any of the brothers' consent.
In order to keep Ajju at bay, Uday and Majnu visit Wanted Bhai, who is an infamous blind don. The brothers are shocked to find that Wanted's son Honey likes Ranjana and would like to marry her. They decide to arrange the marriage of Ranjana to some other decent man, in order to sidestep Ajju as well as Wanted's son. However, due to Ajju and Dr. Ghunguroo, who are in league with Babita and Poonam, they are caught by Wanted Bhai, who summons them to his island.
There, Ajju and Dr. Ghunguroo try to convince Honey that he no longer loves Ranjana and that Babita is his true love. Meanwhile, Uday and Majnu try to kill Ajju, but are frightened at the graveyard in a ghost act planned by Dr. Ghunguroo, Ajju and Ranjana. Unbeknownst to all of them, their activities have been recorded by closed-circuit television, causing Wanted Bhai and Honey to plan to finish them off. However, in a hilarious climax scene, Honey is kidnapped by all of them and they escape towards the desert where they are chased by Wanted Bhai. In the midst of saving himself, Dr. Ghunguroo pushes Wanted Bhai, causing him to faint. Meanwhile, a group of camels heavily march there. Ajju is successful in saving Wanted Bhai from the stampede of camels, and restoring his sight. Wanted Bhai himself, as a form of gratitude, arranges the marriage of Ajju with Ranjana, calling Ajju his 'second son'.
Welcome to the Jungle (2026 film)
Welcome to the Jungle was originally scheduled for release on Christmas 2024. The announced cast consisted of Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Johnny Lever, Rajpal Yadav, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Aftab Shivdasani, Jackie Shroff, Daler Mehndi, Mika Singh, Raveena Tandon, Lara Dutta, Jacqueline Fernandez, Disha Patani, Urvashi Rautela, Farida Jalal, Krushna Abhishek, Mukesh Tiwari, Yashpal Sharma, Vindu Dara Singh, Kiran Kumar, Zakir Hussain, late Pankaj Dheer, Puneet Issar, Kiku Sharda, Feroze Khan (Arjun), Sudesh Berry, and Vrihi Kodvara.
The first schedule of the shoot was completed in May 2024. As more schedules were planned, and with VFX work in post-production expected, the release date was pushed to 2025. In August 2024, director Ahmed Khan said that 70% of the shoot was complete, and the international shoot schedule in UAE was planned for October.
The film released theatrically on 26 June 2026.
Cast and characters Character Film Sagar "Majnu" Pandey Anil Kapoor Uday Shetty Nana Patekar Rajiv Saini Akshay Kumar Rajiv Kohli Akshay Kumar Vishwajit Kohli Dr. Dayal Ghunghroo Paresh Rawal Das Paresh Rawal Feroz Khan Sanjana Shetty Katrina Kaif Mrs. Payal Ghunghroo Supriya Karnik Baljeet "Ballu" Rawat Mushtaq Khan Uday Shetty’s lawyer Adi Irani Uday Shetty’s bodyguard Harry Josh Majnu's goon Snehal Dabi Rakesh Kapoor / Vikrant Kapoor / Amar Kapoor Ranjeet Suniel Shetty Suniel Shetty (Cameo) Yeda Anna Suniel Shetty Ishika Kanojia Mallika Sherawat Lucky Xaka Shereveer Vakil Purushottam Paresh Ganatra Municipal worker Charlie Pandit Manilal Shastri Sanjay Mishra Dhanesh Varman Vijay Raaz Akhilendra Chandel Asrani Ajay "Ajju" Barsi John Abraham Ranjana Shetty Shruti Hassan Shankar Shetty Nana Patekar Poonam / Maharani Padmavati Dimple Kapadia Babita / Rajkumari Chandini Ankita Shrivastav Mansoor Sharif (Wanted Bhai) Naseeruddin Shah Honey Sharif Shiney Ahuja Baadshah Bhai Neeraj Vora Tailor Rajpal Yadav Dev Rajpal Yadav Romeo Arshad Warsi Narrator Om Puri Vijay Raaz
Item dancers Character Film
Crew Occupation Film Director Anees BazmeeAhmed Khan Producer Firoz Nadiadwala Screenplay Anees Bazmee, Rajiv Kaul, Praful Parekh Anees Bazmee, Rajiv Kaul, Rajan Aggarwal, Praful ParekhFarhad Samji Story Anees Bazmee, Rajiv KaulNeeraj Vora Cinematography Sanjay F. Gupta Kabir Lal Editor Ashfaque Makrani Steven BernardNitin Pathak Composer(s) Anand Raj Anand, Himesh Reshammiya, Sajid–Wajid Meet Bros. Anjjan, Anu Malik, Abhishek Ray Vikram Montrose, Anand Raaj Anand, Talwiinder, NDS, Sajid-Wajid Background score Sajid–Wajid Aadesh Shrivastava Hanif Shaikh Production House(s) Base Industries Group Base Industries Group, Swiss EntertainmentBase Industries Group, Cape of Good Films, Seeta Films Distributor(s) UTV Motion Pictures, Indian Films Eros InternationalStar Studio18
Release and reception
Box office Film Release date Budget Box office revenue Welcome 21 December 2007 Welcome Back 4 September 2015 Welcome to the Jungle26 June 2026 Total Critical reception
FilmRotten TomatoesWelcomeN/A (1 reviews)Welcome Back40% (4.3/10 average rating) (10 reviews)Welcome to the Jungle46% (5.10/10 average rating) (13 reviews)
See also Housefull (film series) Dhamaal (film series) Golmaal (film series)
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