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November 23, 2025
by Carla Hay
Directed by Milap Milan Zaveri
Hindi with subtitles
Culture Representation: Taking place in India, the comedy film “Mastiii 4” (the fourth film in the “Masti” movie franchise) features a predominantly Asian cast of characters (with a few white people) representing the working-class, middle-class and wealthy.
Culture Clash: Three unhappy husbands get permission from their wives to have extramarital sex with other people for a limited period of time, but the wives turn the tables on their husbands with rules that let the wives have their own extramarital affairs.
Culture Audience: “Mastiii 4” will appeal primarily to people who are fans of the movie’s headliners, the “Masti” movies, and romantic comedies that are mindless and tacky.
“Mastiii 4” is an extremely irritating ripoff of the 2011 comedy “Hall Pass,” a movie about restless husbands whose wives allow them to have extramarital sex with other people for a limited period of time. This sequel is filled with too much shrieking idiocy. “Mastiii 4” (the fourth movie in the “Masti” franchise) arrives nine years after the third “Masti” movie. Was it worth the wait? Absolutely not. “Mastiii 4” is not even worth the time of any viewer who wants to see an entertaining romantic comedy.
Directed by Milap Milan Zaveri (who co-wrote the atrocious “Mastiii 4” screenplay with Farrukh Dhondy), “Mastiii 4” is parts of movie franchise that began with 2004’s “Mastii,” and then continued with 2013’s “Grand Masti” and 2016’s “Great Grand Masti.” All the movies take place in India.
The three husbands at the center of each of these “Masti” movies so far have the same names and have been played by the same actors. However, in each movie, the husbands have different wives portrayed by different actresses. And in this very sexist film series, the wives keep getting younger, while the husbands get older and look even more ridiculous as middle-aged buffoons trying to act like sex-crazed young studs.
In “Mastiii 4,” the younger wives also have to spend a lot of screen time wearing very revealing and tight-fitting outfits, with cameras showing leering closeups of female body parts. By contrast, the husbands do not get the same sexual objectification. The husbands in each “Masti” movie have the same complaints about their wives: The husbands are bored and frustrated by their marriages because they think their wives are either nagging shrews or uptight prudes.
The misogyny in “Mastiii 4” is not the only problem with this horrible movie. It’s an onslaught of moronic jokes, nasty-looking slapstick, and a flimsy plot that’s stretched to the breaking point in an excruciatingly too-long 141-minute abomination of a movie. Bawdy jokes can be entertaining if they’re actually funny, but there is no authentic comedy to be found in “Mastiii 4” because everything (including the terrible acting) looks so forced and phony.
In “Mastiii 4,” three best friends who are the griping (and groping) husbands are zookeeper Amar Saxena (played by Riteish Deshmukh), car salesman Meet Mehta (played by Vivek Oberoi) and medical doctor Prem Chawla (played by Aftab Shivdasani), who know no bounds when it comes to their obnoxiousness. Amar is married to Bindiya Saxena (played by Elnaaz Norouzi), Meet is married to Aanchal Mehta (played by Shreya Sharma), and Prem is married to Geeta Chawla (played by Ruhi Singh), who are all stereotypes of demanding and insecure wives.
The wives’ personalities are virtually indistiguishable from one another, except when Bindiya mirrors Amar’s tendency to want to be the alpha leader of her social group. In one of the movie’s early scenes, the husbands donate blood at the same time to make their wives proud of this charitable donation. The husbands then quickly pass out from the loss of blood. It looks as unfunny as it sounds.
Amar likes to brag that as a zookeeper, he’s a “master mater,” as in he is very good at getting the zoo animals to mate. He demonstrates his technique by dressing up in a cheap-looking tiger costume to entice the tigers at the zoo. Later, he wears a scent that ends up attracting several animals at the zoo to surround Amar and start humping his legs, arms, head, etc. The movie’s visual effects are extremely sloppy and a complete embarrassment.
And what a coincidence: At each of their respective jobs, the husbands meet sexually flirtatious young women wearing cleavage-baring outfits and who seem eager to want to have affairs with these husbands. Amar’s temptress is Rosie (played by Natalia Janoszek), who introduces herself as a new employee at the zoo. Meet’s seductress is a potential customer named Rosemary (played by Tara Sumner), who gets Meet hot and bothered when they’re in a car together on the sales lot. Prem gets aroused by a nurse (played by Leena), who dresses like a porn movie version of a nurse and tells Prem that she’s now working at the same clinic where Prem works.
The husbands and wives are slightly envious of another couple in their friend group because the other couple seems to have a happy and passionate marriage: An affluent businessman named Kamraj (played by Arshad Warsi) and his wife Menka (played by Nargis Fakhri) show public displays of affection and always tell in other “I love you” in public. The wives of the three unhappy husbands say that they wish their husbands could be more like Kamraj.
One day, after Menka goes away on a short trip, the three miserable husbands see that Kamraj has invited several scantily clad young women over to Kamraj’s mansion to party with Kamraj. The husbands show up at the house and think they’ve caught Kamraj being an unfaithful husband and threaten to tell Menka about it when she gets home. Amar, Meet and Prem smugly say they can’t wait to tell their wives that Kamraj is not the “perfect husband” that Kamraj appears to be.
But when Menka comes home and hears about Kamraj having fun with several younger women while Menka was away, Menka and Kamraj drop a bombshell on Amar, Meet and Prem: Menka and Kamraj reveal that they have an open marriage, where Kamraj gets a “love visa,” which is permission to indulge in any sexual fantasies with other consensual adults for a certain period of time. Amar, Meet and Prem are completely shocked.
Menka and Kamraj say that this open marriage arrangement has actually improved their marriage because Kamraj can get all of his sexual needs satisfied, and he doesn’t have to hide that he has sex outside of the marriage. Amar, Meet and Prem think that if they had “love visas” in their own marriage, then maybe their marriages can improve too. Kamraj and Menka offer to be “mentors” to Amar, Meet and Prem and their wives if the three other couples decide to have a “love visa” open marriage.
Amar, Meet and Prem ask their wives to try out the “love visa” idea, but the wives quickly reject this idea. But then, just as quickly, the wives change their minds. That’s because the wives also want “love visas” for themselves. “Mastiii 4” shows the double standard that Amar, Meet and Prem have in their attitudes where they think men are more deserving than women to get “love visas” in a marriage.
This identical plot concept was in the movie “Hall Pass,” starring Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis as husbands whose wives (played by Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate) gave them permission to have extramarital sex with other people for a limited period of time, and then the wives wanted the same permission to have their own extramarital affairs. The term “love visa” is just another way of saying “hall pass” in the way that it’s used in the “Hall Pass” movie. (In the United States, a hall pass is a school term for permission for a student to leave a classroom for a certain period of time while class is in session.)
“Mastiii 4” goes downhill and never recovers when the four couples (including “love visa veterans” Menka and Kamraj) go on a beach vacation together. Bindiya, Aanchal and Geeta get their own tempting love interests, who are all better-looking than their husbands. Predictably, this situation causes Amar, Meet and Prem to get very jealous.
Pablo Putinwa (played by Tusshar Kapoor) is an attractive celebrity who wants to hook up with Bindiya. Sid Walia is a frequently shirtless hunk who shows an interest in Aanchal. A handsome widower policeman named Inspector Virat (played by Shaad Randhawa) wants to romance Geeta. Aanchal, Bindiya and Geeta love the attention and reciprocate the flirtations of these suitors.
“Mastiii 4” also has some flamboyantly gay muscular men (played by Andre De’Cruze, Maulvi Mehmood Sultan and Atul Sharma Pandit) at the beach. The movie’s only purpose for these gay men is to make them targets of jokes about the homophobic husbands being afraid that the gay men will show a sexual interest in the husbands. This type of putrid mockery of gay men is an example of how “Mastiii 4” is a cesspool of backwards and outdated thinking.
Lots of spying, bad disguises, yelling, pointless song-and-dance numbers, and stupid scenarios then ensue, as the movie becomes a “battle of the sexes” over which spouses can be the “winners” in this petulant “love visa” game. “Mastiii 4” is the type of movie where Meet is blindfolded in a bedroom where he thinks he’s about to kiss Rosemary, but he ends up kissing her elderly mother (played by Olwen Hughes) instead, and the mother’s upper dentures end up in his mouth. None of it is amusing.
When he takes off the blindfold, Meet is shocked at what he sees, as if he didn’t know that a huge row of dentures landed in his mouth. Rosemary’s mother is thrilled and wants to kiss Meet some more, so she chases him around the room. This is the type of hackneyed and rancid gag that “Mastiii 4” is trying to pass off as funny.
At the end of “Mastiii 4,” there’s an announcement that there will be a “Mastiii 5” movie. There’s no reason to think that more of this painfully unfunny garbage will get any better. Don’t say you haven’t been warned.
Zee Studios released “Mastiii 4” in select U.S. cinemas and in India on November 21, 2025.