Anil Kapoor replaced in Akshay Kumar’s Welcome 3 demands whopping fee of Rs 18 crore Nana Patekar too backs out
Anil Kapoor replaced in Akshay Kumar’s Welcome 3 demands whopping fee of Rs 18 crore
Nana Patekar too backs out
Anil Kapoor has been replaced with Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi for Nana Patekar in
Welcome 3, officially titled Welcome To The Jungle and scheduled for 2024 Christmas release.
Welcome released in 2007, has emerged a cult comedy over the years and a pop culture phenomenon with its memes still being used after 15 years of its release.
Apart Akshay Kumar leading the film, the crime comedy starred Anil Kapoor and Nana Patekar as Majnu Bhai and Uday Bhai and their roles became iconic.
In 2015, the sequel Welcome Back was released with John Abraham replacing Akshay Kumar as the main lead and Anil Kapoor and Nana Patekar reprising their roles. However, it failed to recreate the magic of the first part and received negative reviews from audiences and critics.
Now, after 9 years, the third part Welcome 3, officially titled Welcome To The Jungle, is set to release on Christmas 2024. Akshay Kumar returns to the franchise but the characters of Uday Bhai and Majnu Bhai will be played by Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi as Anil and Nana have refused to come on board for the threequel.
A source reveals that there were talks that there can’t be Welcome without Anil Kapoor and Nana Patekar. They were first offered the film, but the conversation soon fell through. Producer Firoz Nadiadwala got the shock of his life when Anil Kapoor demanded Rs. 18 crores to act in the film.
However, Anil felt that Welcome is Welcome because of Majnu and the film will just get wider in the third part with the addition of Akshay Kumar. He felt that he deserved the money as the third part is a potential Rs. 300 crore film at India box office and even he deserved the amount he asked for.
He tried to put forth his point, but when Firoz refused, he willingly backed out of the film. Akshay Kumar also tried to intervene and get Anil on board, but Anil was stuck on getting Rs. 18 crores”, the source further added.
Once Anil backed out, Nana also took a backseat. Akshay and Firoz then decided to bring in Munna and Circuit in Welcome 3.”
While Welcome and Welcome Back were directed by Anees Bazmee, Welcome 3 is reportedly going to be helmed by Ahmed Khan who previously collaborated with the producer Firoz Nadiadwala for Fool & Final in 2007.
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