Development After the success of
Housefull (2010),
Housefull 2 (2012), and
Housefull 3 (2016),
Sajid Nadiadwala announced
Housefull 4 on 27 October 2017. The film was the fourth film in
Housefull film series.
Sajid Khan was announced as the director.
Farhad Samji, who directed
Housefull 3 came on board to write the screenplay and dialogues, from the story by Sajid Nadiadwala. The film was made on a budget of 75 crore. In February 2018, it was reported that the film would commence filming in June 2018, in order to give time to post-production and VFX works.
DNEG was reported to be do the VFX works of the film, the team shifted from London to Mumbai till the release for the same. The theatrical distribution, overseas, satellite and digital rights of the film were acquired by
Fox Star Studios for 200 crore. The technicians include cinematographer
Sudeep Chatterjee, editor Rameshwar S. Bhagat, production designers Amit Ray and Subrata Chakraborty, stunt director Sham Kaushal, art directors Rupam Paul, Pallavi Pethkar, and Vinayak Joshi, costume designers Rimple, and Harpreet Narula and choreographers
Farah Khan,
Ganesh Acharya and Chinni Prakash.
Casting Mukesh Chhabra served as the casting director.
Akshay Kumar and
Riteish Deshmukh, who were part of previous films in the series were part of the film.
Bobby Deol joined the cast in March 2018. The film marks his fifth collaboration with Kumar after
Ajnabee (2001),
Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Sathiyo (2004),
Dosti: Friends Forever (2005), and
Thank You (2011). While
Kriti Sanon and
Pooja Hegde joined the casts and lead actresses in March 2018,
Kriti Kharbanda joined in June 2018.
Sharad Kelkar joined the cast in August 2018.
Rana Daggubati joined the cast in November 2018. In May 2019, it was reported that
Nawazuddin Siddiqui would appear as a Baba in a song.
Chunky Pandey revealed that his character name Aakhri Pasta came from the film
Aakhree Raasta (1986), and the character of Marconi from the film
The Great Gambler , which was played by
Sujit Kumar. He took him as an inspiration, his clothes, that moustache, and created Aakhri Pasta.
Filming Principal photography began on 9 July 2018 in
London. The filming of the song "
Ek Chumma", featuring lead casts was held on mid July 2018. Choreographed by
Farah Khan, the song was entirely shot in
United Kingdom, over 5 locations spread across London and its outskirts, including at the
House of Lords and
Kensington Palace. The first schedule was wrapped on 21 July 2018. The second schedule started in September 2018 in
Rajasthan, with filming in
Ranthambore forest. Later the production moved to
Jaisalmer Palace for filming funny war sequences. Later, in October 2018 the team constructed a huge set Chitrakoot grounds in
Andheri. The filming was wrapped on 20 November 2018, except the song shoots. A song featuring Siddiqui along with lead casts was shot in May 2019, Choreographed by
Ganesh Acharya, the song has 5 500 background dancers and was shot at
Film City, Mumbai. A song featuring Kumar, choreographed by Acharya was shot in late June 2018. The song was shot at a huge set erected at Mumbai with 200-250 background dancers. A
Qawwali song featuring Rana Daggubati and lead casts, with 200 background dancers was filmed in August 2019.
Post-production Post-production for the film began by December 2018, once the film completed its shooting and went for eight months as the film involved extensive
computer graphics and
visual effects. The
VFX works of the film was done by
DNEG. In mid-October 2019, the film received a
U/A certificate from the
Censor Board, with a finalised runtime of 146 minutes. == Music ==