Dhol (film)

Plot

Pankaj (Sharman Joshi), Sameer (Tusshar Kapoor), Martand (Rajpal Yadav) and Gautam (Kunal Khemu) are bound together by their ambition to make it big in life with the least effort possible. Each one tries his hand at finding a short cut to success but ends up being in even deeper trouble. Things get worse when the four decide to take some desperate measures to end their misery once and for all.

They believe that the only way to get rich without working hard is to marry a wealthy girl. As luck would have it, a rich girl Ritu (Tanushree Dutta) arrives in their neighborhood. All four set out with their individual plans to marry her but end up discovering a shocking truth. Ritu came to the city to find about her brother's killers. All four of them try to impress Ritu but meanwhile they discover that ritu's brother died along with another friend of Ritu's brother. They try hard and finally Pankaj is decided to marry Ritu. Soon before marriage Ritu finds the secret that his brother and his friend were in contact of a notorious gang leader Zikomo. Also Ritu finds that these four were bluffing all time just to impress her and so she starts avoiding them. One day Zikomo finds them and kidnap Ritu and her family members. He reveals to be the true killer and he confesses about killing Rahul and Jay. He asks for them to handover the Dhol if they wanted to see him alive, however Ritu's family members don't know about any Dhol. The real comedy fight ensues and Zikomo is killed in a self explosion at the end of the movie. Ritu hands over the Dhol and when they four of them throw the Dhol, they find it filled with money. Thus Zikomo was after the money and not Dhol. They take the money and movie ends.

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Reception

Dhol opened to receive mixed reviews from top critics. Taran Adarsh rated it 3.5 out of 5, and claimed the film to be amongst director Priyadarshan's best works, and that it was a "hilarious laugh-riot" and "not to be missed!" However, at the box office, the film had an average opening, and grossed a nett 13.50 crores in its opening weekend. Due to the strong word-of-mouth and excellent public response; the film picked up much better in many places, though had a huge drop throughout the second week.The film was declared above average at the box office.