{"id":340345,"date":"2026-05-25T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=340345"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:28:00","slug":"fact-check-paresh-rawal-has-not-quit-hera-pheri-3-again-old-bollywood-hungama-report-from-2025-gets-picked-up-as-fresh-news-bollywood-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/fact-check-paresh-rawal-has-not-quit-hera-pheri-3-again-old-bollywood-hungama-report-from-2025-gets-picked-up-as-fresh-news-bollywood-news\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Paresh Rawal has NOT quit Hera Pheri 3 again; old Bollywood Hungama report from 2025 gets picked up as fresh news : Bollywood News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\"> <span itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\" hide\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/stat4.bollywoodhungama.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PareshRawal1.jpeg\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"620\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"450\"> <\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>Exactly a 12 months ago, <strong>Bollywood Hungama<\/strong> reported what was probably one in all the largest newsbreaks of 2025 \u2013 Paresh Rawal had quit <em>Hera Pheri 3<\/em>. It shocked the trade, the industry, fans and even the team of the film. Just a few days after this news broke, Akshay Kumar\u2019s Cape of Good Movies, the producer of <em>Hera Pheri 3<\/em>, sued Paresh Rawal for Rs. 25 crores. A few days later, <strong>Bollywood Hungama<\/strong> published one other report stating that Paresh Rawal had returned the signing amount of Rs. 11 lakhs with 15% p.a. interest, together with some additional money for stepping away from the series. Just a few weeks later, Paresh Rawal and Akshay Kumar resolved the matter, and the previous returned to the franchise. The problem was put to rest and had even change into history. But now, amusingly, it&#8217;s back within the news.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-2128439 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stat4.bollywoodhungama.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PareshRawal1.jpeg\" alt=\"FACT CHECK: Paresh Rawal has NOT quit Hera Pheri 3 again; old Bollywood Hungama report from 2025 gets picked up as fresh news\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img-dscp\">FACT CHECK: Paresh Rawal has NOT quit Hera Pheri 3 again; old Bollywood Hungama report from 2025 gets picked up as fresh news<\/span><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"imagnary-id\" value=\"2128436\"><span id=\"imagnary-data\" class=\"loading\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, reports began coming in that Paresh Rawal has once more quit <em>Hera Pheri 3<\/em>. Interestingly, these reports carried the identical information that <strong>Bollywood Hungama<\/strong> had published exactly a 12 months ago \u2013 that Paresh Rawal had returned the signing amount with 15% interest and extra compensation for walking out of the film. <strong>CLICK HERE TO READ THE NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back then, <strong>Bollywood Hungama<\/strong> had also reported further details in regards to the development \u2013 that the actor was being paid Rs. 15 crores for the film, had received Rs. 11 lakhs because the signing amount and was to receive the balance Rs. 14.89 crores a month after the film\u2019s release. A source had told us then, \u201cThe senior actor had reservations about this clause. Also, the film\u2019s principal shoot was to begin sometime next 12 months. Which means <em>Hera Pheri 3<\/em> was unlikely to be released before late 2026 or within the 12 months 2027. In brief, Paresh would have had to attend for nearly two years to get the remainder of his acting fees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The identical information has now been picked up by certain news outlets, and the source of the knowledge has been attributed to <strong>Bollywood Hungama<\/strong>. Nonetheless, what they forgot to tell readers was that <strong>Bollywood Hungama<\/strong> had published this report on May 23, 2025, while these outlets wrote about it exactly a 12 months later, on May 23, 2026!<\/p>\n<p>One other amusing aspect is that the articles mention that Paresh Rawal would need to wait two years to get his acting fees if Hera Pheri 3 is released in late 2026 or 2027. But we at the moment are in 2026. Hence, if the news was actually fresh, he would need to wait just six months or lower than a 12 months to receive Rs. 14.89 crores. This itself proves that the knowledge being circulated is a 12 months old.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, the report has spread like wildfire on the web and has panicked fans. Nonetheless, they needn&#8217;t worry. Every time <em>Hera Pheri 3<\/em> is made, everyone\u2019s favourite Baburao Ganpatrao Apte will certainly be there to entertain them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read: Akshay Kumar recreates his iconic Phir Hera Pheri pose; flaunts \u2018side wala swag\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4> More Pages: Hera Pheri 3 Box Office Collection<\/h4>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2 alt=\"Bollywood News - Live Updates\" title=\"Bollywood News - Live Updates\" style=\"font-size: 0.9rem;\">BOLLYWOOD NEWS &#8211; LIVE UPDATES<\/h2>\n<p>Catch us for contemporary Bollywood News, Latest Bollywood Movies update, Box office collection, Latest Movies Release , Bollywood News Hindi, Entertainment News, Bollywood Live News Today &#038; Upcoming Movies 2026 and stay updated with latest hindi movies only on Bollywood Hungama.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly a 12 months ago, Bollywood Hungama reported what was probably one in all the largest newsbreaks of 2025 \u2013 Paresh Rawal had quit Hera Pheri 3. It shocked the trade, the industry, fans and even the team of the film. Just a few days after this news broke, Akshay Kumar\u2019s Cape of Good Movies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20659],"tags":[7785,3247,4076,1181,22449,10753,395,21471,22450,1310,3566,21472,2185],"class_list":["post-340345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bollywood","tag-bollywood","tag-check","tag-fact","tag-fresh","tag-hera","tag-hungama","tag-news","tag-paresh","tag-pheri","tag-picked","tag-quit","tag-rawal","tag-report"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340348,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340345\/revisions\/340348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}