The madcap Welcome franchise returns with its third instalment, spoiling the audience for choices at a time when a patriotic period drama, a rom-com, and a horror flick are all running in the theatres simultaneously. Welcome to the Jungle, directed by Ahmed Khan, promises to be bigger, quite literally, with over 30 actors joining in a jungle adventure. But does the instalment really make a bigger mark?

The plot

A corrupt businessman wants to save himself from a tax raid and, at his daughter Jacqueline Fernandez's idea, decides to put his money into a film. Dev and Das (Paresh Rawal and Rajpal Yadav) are called to direct the film, with Nainsukh (Shreyas Talpade) as the cameraman. They approach a flop hero, Rajeev (Akshay Kumar), for the lead role, with Tusshar Kapoor playing his assistant. Nadia (Disha Patani), Akshay's ex-lover, is signed as the heroine on the condition that she has nothing to do with her ex in the film.