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Housefull 5

Comedy Crime Mystery Hindi


A father writes his will — his son "Jolly" is going to get it all. But who is Jolly? The comedy unfolds as different people pose as the "real" Jolly on a cruise celebrating the father's birthday — where a murder takes place.

Cast:Akshay Kumar, Ritesh Deshmukh, Abhishek Bachchan, Nargis Fakhri, Chitrangda Singh, Sonam Bajwa
Director:Tarun Mansukhani
Editor:Rameshwar S. Bhagat
Camera:V. Manikandan
FCG Score for the film Housefull 5

Guild Reviews

FCG Member Reviewer Bhawana Somaaya
Bhawana Somaaya | 92.7 Big FM
June 7, 2025
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Akshay Kumar leads yet another loud, formulaic farce

FCG Member Reviewer Shubhra Gupta
Shubhra Gupta | The Indian Express
Fri, June 6 2025

Compared to the previous Housefulls, this one has a slightly fuller house, but because no one expects anything else, it’s pretty much like the older ones.

Me: Oh brain, braaaain. It’s that time again.

Dead Silence

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सितारों की भरमार के बाद भी नहीं चमकी ये कमजोर कॉमिडी

FCG Member Reviewer Upma Singh
Upma Singh | Navbharat Times
Fri, June 6 2025

अक्षय कुमार, अभिषेक बच्चन, जैकी श्रॉफ, संजय दत्त, नाना पाटेकर, रितेश देशमुख और ऐसे करीब एक दर्जन और सितारे, अक्सर अपनी फिल्‍मों में स्टार पावर पर भरोसा करने वाले निर्माता साजिद नाडियाडवाला ने अपनी चर्चित कॉमिडी फ्रैंचाइजी ‘हाउसफुल’ के 5वें संस्करण में स्टार्स की कतार लगा दी है। कॉमेडी के साथ-साथ इस बार मर्डर मिस्ट्री का छौंका भी लगाया है। उस पर रोमांच को दोगुना करने के लिए दो-दो क्लाइमैक्स (हाउसफुल 5A और हाउसफुल 5B) भी ले आए हैं। लेकिन इन सबके बावजूद वह यह भूल गए हैं कि आज के दौर में असल स्टार कहानी होती है। लिहाजा करीब डेढ़ दर्जन सितारों की मौजूदगी भी उनकी इस पुराने स्टाइल की कमजोर कहानी को चमकदार नहीं बना पाती। शायद, यही वजह है कि सुबह साढ़े 8 बजे के शो में जब मैं पहुंची तो वहां मेरे अलावा कोई और नहीं था और शो कैंसल करना पड़ा। किसी तरह, अगले शो में 7-8 लोग जुट गए तो फिल्म देखने का अवसर मिल पाया।

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Who is the real killer in this murder mystery?

FCG Member Reviewer Kshitij Rawat
Kshitij Rawat | Lifestyle Asia
Fri, June 6 2025

A loud, tangled fever dream of a comedy where chaos reigns and absolutely no one, including the film, seems to know what’s going on.

They say too many cooks spoil the broth, but in Housefull 5, too many Jollys cook up a full-blown fever dream aboard a cruise ship where plotlines come to die and then promptly resurrect themselves with dance numbers. Welcome to the Housefull 5 movie, a chaotic comedy-thriller-murder-mystery-family-reunion-courtroom-heist-caper (yes, all of those) where no one is who they say they are, everyone is possibly a murderer, and the parrot might actually be the most intelligent of the lot. Let’s dive into the Housefull 5 movie full story, its ending, which is explained here, cast, trailer, characters, and more.

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चैनसुख और नैनसुख देती ‘हाउसफुल 5’

FCG Member Reviewer Deepak Dua
Deepak Dua | Independent Film Journalist & Critic
Fri, June 6 2025

2010 में आई सबसे पहली ‘हाउसफुल’ का रिव्यू ‘फिल्मी कलियां’ मैगज़ीन में करने के बाद मैंने इस सीरिज़ की अगली फिल्मों यानी ‘हाउसफुल 2’, ‘हाउसफुल 3’ और ‘हाउसफुल 4’ का रिव्यू नहीं किया था। दरअसल इस सीरिज़ की फिल्में जिस किस्म की मैड कॉमेडी परोसती हैं, उन्हें रिव्यू की ज़रूरत भी नहीं होती। लेकिन कॉमेडी के नाम पर रायता फैलाते-फैलाते ‘हाउसफुल 4’ ने जब कॉमेडी का कचरा किया तो मुझे लगा कि इस 5वीं वाली का रिव्यू किया जाए-इसलिए भी कि पहली बार ऐसा हुआ है जब कोई हिन्दी फिल्म ‘हाउसफुल 5ए’ और ‘हाउसफुल 5बी’ के नाम से रिलीज़ हुई है। बता दूं कि मैंने दोनों फिल्में देखीं। दोनों एक ही हैं, बस अंत के 20 मिनट में यह बदलाव किया गया है कि दोनों में कातिल अलग-अलग हैं। अरबों की दौलत का मालिक रणजीत डोबरियाल एक क्रूज़ पर अपना सौवां जन्मदिन मनाने जा रहा है। अचानक आई मौत से पहले वह वसीयत कर जाता है कि उसकी दौलत का वारिस उसका बेटा जॉली होगा। अचरज तब होता है जब शिप पर तीन-तीन जॉली अपनी-अपनी पत्नियों के साथ पहुंच जाते हैं। कौन है इनमें से असली वाला जॉली? कोई है भी या…! तभी शिप पर एक कत्ल होता है और शक इन तीनों जॉलियों और उनकी बीवियों पर आता है जिसकी जांच करने दो पुलिस वाले और उनका एक गुरु शिप पर पहुंचते हैं। वैसे शक के दायरे में शिप के स्टाफ के भी कुछ लोग हैं। किसने किया होगा यह कत्ल? और आखिर क्यों…!

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Blink Twice If You Are In Danger

FCG Member Reviewer Rahul Desai
Rahul Desai | The Hollywood Reporter India
Fri, June 6 2025

Not even Akshay Kumar’s comic timing and a twin-ending gimmick can rescue 'Housefull 5' from itself.

I’ve chuckled a grand total of two times across five instalments of the Housefull franchise. It says something that, in both instances, the gag involved an animal (not the film). No humans were harmed in the making. The snoring crocodile from Housefull 2 (2012) broke through my defences. I have a fondness for crocodiles (on screen), so to hear one snore in his post-lunch sleep was a dream come true I never knew I needed. In Housefull 5, it’s a parrot named Gucci that attacks a man who killed said parrot’s dad in one of the previous films — all of this scored to the Om Shanti Om soundtrack, lest we assume that only human characters are allowed to have reincarnation revenge tracks. Two men team up to bodyslam Gucci and pin him down to the count of three like a wrestler. I might have also grinned when Akshay Kumar smashes his fingers and Jackie Shroff gives him a guitar to make music out of those quivering fingers. It’s an inspired piece of inanity in a Bollywood franchise that feasts on the lowest hanging fruits.

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Housefoosss!

FCG Member Reviewer Sukanya Verma
Sukanya Verma | rediff.com
Fri, June 6 2025

The most idiotic thing I've watched this year

Ask me the plot of the last four Housefull movies and all I can recall are crowded frames filled with cringey, racist humour glorifying dumb blokes, dim-witted women, scowling fathers, random animals and rampant innuendoes designed to appease the lowest common denominator in the audience. Like or loathe, the shtick is raking in the moolah and now there’s a fifth film in the franchise keeping up its tradition of revelling in stupidity and birdbrain imagination. Only Housefull 5 is so rubbish, you’d think none of the actors, 17 or so of them, have any inkling as to where the script is heading and take the extempore challenge too far. Out of ideas for a while now and resorting to gimmicks like two endings – luring viewers into double viewings and ordeal – this Tarun Mansukhani directed fool fest, is the most idiotic thing I’ve watched this year so far.

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FCG Member Reviewer Ajay Brahmatmaj
Ajay Brahmatmaj | CineMahaul (YouTube)
June 6, 2025

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