Priyadarshan opens up on the challenge of making 'Hera Pheri 3' starring Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal, Suniel Shetty: 'People are waiting to see....'

After a lot of glitches, it seems like 'Hera Pheri 3' is finally on track as on Priyadarshan's birthday recently, Akshay Kumar announced that he will be directing the third part of the franchise. It was announced earlier with director Fahad Samji to be produced by Feroz Nadiadwala, but after many blocks and legal glitches later, the film seems back on track.
Incidentally, the first part of the movie, the original 'Hera Pheri' was helmed by Priyadarshan only and hence fans are excited for him to direct the movie. However, the director says that this time around, he's taking it as a huge challenge. He said during a chat with ETV Bharat, "I was very confident that Hera Pheri would work but I never expected it to become a cult film. It had decent humour and excellent performances. People never believed that Akshay, Suniel and Paresh can pull off a comedy because those days they were doing different kinds of movies. But it surprised them and the success of Hera Pheri was a turning point in their career.”
He added, "I plan to start work, start writing Hera Pheri 3 sometime next year. It is going to be very challenging to make the third part because there will be too many expectations. People are waiting to see Akshay, Paresh and Suniel again and we always say that it is easy to make people cry, it is easy to scare people but to make them laugh is very difficult and that too without using double entendre dialogues ..you have to make humour so pure and identifiable. Then, humor also changes, and the taste of the society changes. We have to catch up with that. Characters have gotten older and accordingly people should believe…these are important things. I am taking it as a challenge. Let’s see how it works.”
At the moment, Priyadarshan is working on 'Bhoot Bangla' which also has Akshay and Paresh Rawal. The film also stars Tabu.