It has been 15 long years since Munna Bhai MBBS hit the screens in 2003. And we lost our hearts completely! It was followed by Lage Raho Munna Bhai in 2006. The much-awaited third part of the series, however, is yet to arrive and it has been 12 long years already!

Now director Rajkumar Hirani confirms that part 3 of the hugely popular Munna Bhai series is in the offing. “We wanted to do the third Munna Bhai film and even wrote a lot of it, but we were not able to match the script with the first two. Now, I have found something, though we still have to write it.” While the first half of the problem has been solved – finding an idea that lived up to the original film and the sequel – don’t be sitting on the edge of your seat yet as the script is yet to be penned and that will be a long and challenging process in itself.

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Hirani also spoke with nostalgia about the Munna Bhai films, sharing, “We were all new and naive at the time. While we were filming Munna Bhai MBBS, we didn’t think we were doing some kind of mainstream cinema. I only knew that I was doing a different kind of cinema. More than its commercial success, it fetched us a lot of love and affection from people. I was happy that my family and friends saw it. That joy itself was enough. Never in my life had I thought of anything like this.”

In an earlier interview with writer Abhijat Joshi, who has penned the films together with Hirani, had talked about the third part of the series. “The toughest thing is to match up to what we did in Lage Raho Munna Bhai. We are looking at something that will match the standards of Lage Raho…. We have an idea in place. It is something new and different.”
Hirani has also shared that fans may see Sanjay Dutt again as the Bhai and Arshad Warsi as his trusted sidekick in part 3 of the series.

Our Monday just got loads brighter!