Total Dhamaal is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language adventure comedy film directed and written by Indra Kumar.

It stars Ajay Devgn, Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi and Jaaved Jaaferi.

Guddu and his partner Johnny steal ₹50 crore of black money from Police Commissioner Shamsher Singh.

Avinash and Bindu are a troubled couple who file a divorce and argue over keeping their child.

While running from them, Pintoo gets onto a private plane to escape but learns that instead of the pilot, he brought the janitor with him.

Later, they try to cross a river to get to the real highway, which gets filled by water when the dam gets opened and they get swept to the edge of the waterfall.

After somehow escaping near-death scenarios, everyone reaches Omkar Zoo where they start finding the hidden money.

They see that a man named Chinappa Swamy is planning to illegally close the zoo and turn it into a housing colony by killing all the animals.

After successfully saving the animals, the group finds the OK and decides to split the money equally between all of them.

Besides Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi and Javed Jaffrey, director Indra Kumar signed Ajay Devgn for the third part of his Dhamaal film series in late May 2017.

[8] Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit were also signed in mid-November 2017 marking their collaboration after seventeen years when they acted together in the film Pukar.

[11] In late December 2017, Ajay Devgn FFilms collaborated with Fox Star Studios to produce the film.

In 12 days of its release the film crossed ₹200 crore (US$23 million) mark in gross collection.

[33] Taran Adarsh rated the film with three stars and found it entertaining and loaded with clean humour.

[34] Himesh Mankad from Koimoi gives 3 star out of 5 says "Total Dhamaal is a fair clean entertainer that can be enjoyed with the entire family.

[35] Ronak Kotecha writing for The Times of India gave two stars out of five and feels that in the ensemble cast, the film had the potential to be a comic roller coaster ride.

He concluded saying "However, the fact that the film is slapstick is not a problem, what brings it down is poor writing and execution.

"[36] Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave 1.5 stars out of 5, commenting "I want to say here that I’m not against comedies that require complete suspension of disbelief.

From multiple remix songs, to the low-IQ racist and sexist humour, and a reliance on familiar gags and tropes, this is lazy, cynical filmmaking.