Ajay Devgn, Rohit Shetty to get together for Golmaal 4

Ajay Devgn, having starred in several brilliant films like Rajneeti, Company, Omkara, Thakshak and Zakhm, eventually and perhaps inevitably succumbed to the demands of modern day Bollywood and reemerged as a commercial actor akin to the likes of Akshay Kumar, the Khans (Shah Rukh, Salman, Aamir) and Hrithik Roshan. 

The man who made this transition possible for Devgn was director Rohit Shetty whose Golmaal series with the actor earned piles and piles of money on the box office. This was followed by other projects like Singham, which played out all masala potboiler elements to commercial success while the critics wondered what happened to the actor who made films like the Legend of Bhagat Singh?

Shetty’s brand of cinema went for a detour and landed Shah Rukh Khan, which culminated in the films Chennai Express and Dilwale. And while SRK hopes to rectify his horrible outing in Shetty’s films by working with intelligent filmmakers like Imtiaz Ali and Gauri Shinde, Ajay Devgn, who has been working on his directorial venture, Shivaay is reuniting with his box office King-maker Rohit Shetty for a fourth film in the Golmaal franchise and the cop movie, Singham 3.

According to reports, the relationship between Devgn and Shetty, which soured after the latter cast Shah Rukh Khan in two films, is now on the mend. DNAIndia reports:  “No one knows if there really was a problem between the two, but things seemed to have cooled down between the two friends. When reports of their rift kept on growing neither uttered a word against the other. Rohit was to make Ram Lakhan after Dilwale, but that has not taken off and now, Rohit will begin work on Golmaal 4 and it will go on floors soon.”

All this only means one thing: box office success matters a lot more in Bollywood than a remotely sensible screenplay.