
Ajay Devgn
Guddu

The Dhamaal boys are back for another treasure hunt, facing hilarious challenges in their quest for the Treasure of Life.
I’ve seen Dhamaal 4 twice now: once in a packed multiplex where kids shrieked at every pratfall, and once alone at home, where the silence made the jokes land with a thud. That split tells you everything. This film knows its audience, but only one of them.
The premise is comfort food. Four greedy, bumbling friends, Guddu (Ajay Devgn), Adi (Arshad Warsi), Lallan (Riteish Deshmukh), and Manav (Jaaved Jaaferi), stumble onto another treasure map, this time leading to ₹50 crore hidden under the cryptic marker “M.” The formula is identical to Dhamaal (2007): a MacGuffin, escalating disasters, and a climax where the money slips through their fingers.
In 2007 the chaos felt spontaneous. In 2026 it feels like a factory reset.

Indra Kumar, directing his fourth Dhamaal, leans hard into the franchise’s old-school charm, and the charm has curdled into formula. The first half is a gauntlet of shouted insults, pratfalls, and a ghost sequence so tonally jarring it seems to have wandered in from another movie. (The ghost is a CGI specter that looks rendered in Microsoft Paint 2005.) The humor relies on volume: characters scream, objects explode, the soundtrack blares, and the laughs are as hollow as the CGI.
Hindustan Times’ critic counted only five genuine laughs in the whole runtime. I got three.
The second half fares slightly better, mostly because the jungle setting allows broader physical comedy. In one sequence the gang forms a human chain to rescue a friend from a sinking ship, and for a moment the film remembers how to be funny. The timing is tight, the stakes feel real (even if the ship is clearly a soundstage), and the camaraderie sells it.
"A noisy, nostalgia-driven treasure hunt that delivers scattered laughs but stumbles on crude humor and sloppy visuals."
Energy, nostalgia, and the returning gang work best, with Arshad Warsi, Jaaved Jaaferi, and Sanjay Mishra the ones who actually make scenes funny. Patchy writing, flat physical comedy, cheap-looking AI-heavy CGI, aggressive product placement, and body-shaming jokes drag it down, splitting opinion sharply between a loud stress-buster and the weakest entry in the series.
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