It is advertised as the first trilogy of Indian cinema. It's about time that the distant cousin of Hollywood had one. Yet, what's important is that Bollywood did not need to have trilogies as one hit movie has the habit of spawning a whole generation of movies that look and feel like the original. ‘Golmaal 3' also suffers from that syndrome. Thankfully, it only feels like its previous avatars.

Despite keeping most characters from its earlier outings, ‘Golmaal 3' enters a hitherto unexplored territory. Madhav (Warsi), Laxman (Khemu) and Lucky (Kapoor) are the three scheming sons of Pritam (Mithun) who manage to lure Vasooli (Mukesh Tiwari) into one scheme after another.

However, as luck would have it, in everything they start, they find competition from three other down-on-their-luck kids Gopal (Ajay Devgn), Laxman (Shreyas Talapade) and Dabbu (Kareena Kapoor) with funding from Puppy bhai (Johnny Lever). Gopal and Laxman are the sons of Geeta (Ratna Pathak Shah).

Unavoidably, locking horns they end up destroying each others businesses. What the two groups don't know is that their parents are unanswered ex-lovers. When Dabbu finds out she schemes and unites the two lovers in a wedding without letting their children know about their step-brothers. All hell breaks loose when they finally find out and a hilarious war engulfs between the two groups right under their parents noses.

Like its predecessors ‘Golmaal 3' has enough laughs going through the movie to keep the momentum. Johnny Lever as the Ghajini-style forgetful don who adopts a new filmy avatar every few minutes has the audience in splits. The few spoofs of old Hindi movies, full of camera pans and quick zooms, will nostalgically tickle the funny bone. The twists of various popular phrases and known adages, raises more than a chuckle.

Mithun gets to do his ‘Disco Dancer' once more. Theatre veteran Ratna Pathak-Shah waltzes through the movie with assurance. Arshad Warsi is his usual tapori self while Shreyas Talapade and Kunal Khemu do a good job. It is however the beefed up Tushar Kapoor who seems to be trying too hard, and despite raising giggles, fails to produce laughter.

Director Rohit Shetty tries his best in merging comic vignettes into one understandable movie. However, had it not been for the funny dialogues, his lack of directorial vitality would have shone out. He is spared the fate by some ingenious dialogue writing by Robin Bhatt (‘Aashiqui', ‘Sadak', ‘Baazigar') and Yunus Sajawal.

Overall, it is worthy to watch.