Pagalpanti 2019

Raj Kishore is plagued by bad luck, a curse that drags along his oldest friends, Junky and Chandu. Every plan they hatch ends in loss or setback; even their fire-cracker shop goes up in flames on its opening day. The trio schemes to charm Sanjana by making her fall for Raj Kishore, and secure a bank loan to launch a new package delivery venture. Having been fooled by them before, her uncle catches wind of the scheme, demands the money back, and the trio barely escapes.

They inadvertently end up delivering their first order: an expensive sports car to Janhvi, the daughter of a gangster Raja Sahab and the niece of WiFi Bhai. The car arrives in a wrecked condition, and Raja Sahab and his goons torture them. They offer their services as disposable servants, a suggestion [WiFi Bhai] convinces Raja Sahab to accept despite the astrologer’s warning about Kishore’s rotten luck. They become the crew’s tested hands and decoys: Junky and Chandu are used to test food for poison, while Raj Kishore serves as a decoy during travel. In the meantime, [Chandu] and Janhvi fall for each other, adding a fraught, tender thread to the chaotic mix of schemes and loyalties.

During one of their traveling assignments, old enemies Tulli and Bulli Seth attack their convoy, exposing that WiFi Bhai is not as fearless as he pretends. Fed up with their constant rivalry, Niraj Modi, a businessman-turned-don who fled India after taking enormous loans, proposes to end the feud by offering ₹700 crores to invest. But their continued streak of misfortune continues to haunt them: Raj, Junky, and Chandu end up causing a fire that burns the entire stack of money.

In a bid to salvage what’s left, Raja Sahab and WiFi Bhai send the trio to bet on a lucky horse. They overhear talk of another horse and place their bets on it, only to see that horse lose the race. Unable to pay Raja Sahab and WiFi Bhai, the trio escapes with Janhvi and Sanjana, while her uncle pursues them. The group winds up on a glue truck where Janhvi’s lips get stuck to Chandu’s cheeks, and Sanjana and her uncle end up glued to their backs. They reach an abandoned house where Kavya is staying, posing as a ghost after rejection in her acting career. There, Raj Kishore accidentally discovers a basement full of Niraj’s cash hoard. The trio steals the money and returns to Raja Sahab and WiFi Bhai’s house just as Niraj is about to execute them for not paying. They settle the score and buy Niraj’s properties.

Niraj soon discovers the ruse and threatens to kill them all. Raj reminds him that the money isn’t his own but stolen from India, and that Raj himself once worked at a bank Niraj borrowed from, becoming one of the many people who lost their jobs because of Niraj’s actions. Raj also goads Niraj’s henchmen into keeping the money for themselves. A skirmish ensues involving three escaped lions and culminates with detectives arriving to take Niraj into custody. In the end, Raj, Junky, and Chandu reconcile with Raja Sahab and WiFi Bhai, and the trio finally lives on the right side of luck, finding a form of happiness after so many misadventures.