Dharma Productions, Ameya Vinod Khopkar Pictures, Udaharnarth, Nuclear Arrow Pictures and Ward Wizard Entertainment’s Ye Re Ye Re Paisa 3 (Marathi; UA) is the third film in the Ye Re Ye Re Paisa series.
Bejoy Anand (Bijay Anand) is an underworld don whose gold biscuits, valued at Rs. 5 crore, go missing. He gives the gold to Mona (Mira Jagannath) for delivering them to Roger, but she inadvertently gives them to one Jaggu (Sanjay Narvekar). On his part, Jaggu hides the gold biscuits in two books and hands those books over to his brother-in-law, Tenya (Anand Ingle). When Tenya sees Babli (Tejaswini Pandit), he follows her (as he loves her) in a cafe and forgets the bag (containing the books) there. The cafe manager gives the bag to struggling actor Aditya (Umesh Kamat) who is seated there. On his part, Aditya gives the two books from the bag to Sunny (Siddharth Jadhav) who is Babli’s real boyfriend. Sunny keeps the two books in the dicky of his scooter. He stays in the house of Raghu (Jaywant Wadkar) as he has been given the task of helping Isha (Vanita Kharat) reduce her weight. Isha is Raghu’s daughter.
Anyway, Bejoy Anand tries to get back his gold biscuits but is unsuccessful. Tenya gives Babli Rs. 5 crore so that she can go fulfil her dream of going to Europe, but those currency notes turn out to be fake. Those fake notes reach Jaggu who, in turn, gives them to Bejoy Anand. Here, Sunny steals Rs. 5 crore from Raghu’s house to give it to Babli for her Europe trip, but even those currency notes turn out to be fake. Meanwhile, Sunny and Isha are to be married, as per the wishes of Raghu. On the wedding day, Jaggu gives jalebi laced with sleeping pills to all the wedding guests. After that, Jaggu, Aditya and Babli steal Rs. 5 crore from Raghu’s safe and hand them over to Bejoy Anand, but all those notes are also fake.
What happens (in the end) to Jaggu, Sunny, Aditya, Babli and Bejoy? Who gets the gold biscuits?
Sanjay Jadhav has written a convoluted story with so many characters that the viewers get confused all the time. The characters seem to have been added only to lengthen the chain of people. Sanjay Jadhav and Sujay Jadhav’s screenplay is weak and is a classic case of convenient writing. The drama looks stretched and hardly serves any purpose other than boring the audience. Even the comedy is very limited. Arvind Jagtap’s dialogues are so-so.
Sanjay Narvekar is okay as Jaggu. Siddharth Jadhav passes muster as Sunny. Umesh Kamat acts well as Aditya. Tejaswini Pandit does a fine job as Babli. Anand Ingle lends average support as Tenya. Jaywant Wadkar is alright as Raghu. Vanita Kharat is okay as Isha. Bijay Anand is ordinary as Bejoy Anand. Vishakha Subhedar (as Ranjana), Nagesh Bhosale (as police inspector Rane), Mira Jagannath (as Mona) and the other artistes are passable.
Sanjay Jadhav’s direction is not quite impressive. Given the weak script, there’s not much he has been able to do to salvage the film with his narration. Music (Amitraj and Pankaj Padghan) is alright. Lyrics (Sachin Pathak and Dr. Vinayak Pawar) are nothing to dance about. Umesh Jadhav’s choreography is eye-filling. Sai-Piyush’s background music ought to have been more effective. Prasad Bhende’s cinematography is okay. Manohar Verma’s action and stunt scenes are functional. Satish Chipkar’s production designing is fair. Apurva Motiwale Sahai’s editing is loose.
On the whole, Ye Re Ye Re Paisa 3 is a dull fare.
Released on 18-7-’25 at Plaza (daily 4 shows) and other cinemas of Bombay by Dharma Productions. Publicity: quite nice. Opening: so-so.