Amar Hundal, comedy, Diljit Dosanjh, Gulshan Grover, Hania Aamir, horror, India, Manav Vij, movies, Neeru Bajwa, reviews, Sardaar Ji 3
June 29, 2025
by Carla Hay
Directed by Amar Hundal
Punjabi with subtitles
Culture Representation: Taking place in India and in England, the comedy horror film “Sardaar Ji 3” (the third movie in the “Sardaar Ji” series) features a predominantly Asian cast of characters (with a few white people) representing the working-class, middle-class and wealthy.
Culture Clash: An arrogant ghost hunter is hired to find a ghost for a gangster family, as the ghost hunter is torn between a rivalry between his new female paranormal hunter partner and his longtime ghost witch partner.
Culture Audience: “Sardaar Ji 3” will appeal primarily to people who are fans of the “Sardaar Ji” movies, the movie’s headliners and silly horror comedies.
With a flimsy plot bogged down by awful jokes, the bloated horror comedy sequel “Sardaar Ji 3” is dead on arrival. It has an outdated and sexist way of handling a love triangle between a ghost hunter, his longtime witch love and an ambitious paranormal investigator. “Sardaar Ji 3” is an example of a third movie in a series being much worse then its two predecessors.
Directed by Amar Hundal and written by Dheeraj Rattan, “Sardaar Ji 3” is a follow-up to 2015’s “Sardaarji” and 2016’s “Sardaarji 2.” Rattan wrote all three movies, which all have Diljit Dosanjh starring as Sardaar Jaggi Ji, the titular ghost hunter. Rohit Jugraj directed “Sardaarji” and “Sardaarji 2.” The change in directors for “Sardaar Ji 3” might have a lot to do with why this movie is the worst of the three, but it still doesn’t excuse the horrible screenplay.
The plot of “Sardaar Ji 3” is so thin, it could’ve been made into a short film. Instead, “Sardaar Ji 3” is stretched out to a 134-minute endurance test of a movie that repeats the same types of jokes, as if this repetition is supposed to make the movie funnier. It actually has the opposite effect: The movie becomes more irrirating as it goes along.
In “Sardaar Ji 3,” Sardaar finds out that someone else has been using his business name to get hired for ghost hunting. This imposter is a woman named Noor (played by Hania Aamir), who is so desperate to become a paranormal investigator that she committed this fraud. When Sardaar finds out what Noor did, at first, he angry. But then, because he’s attracted to Noor, he decides that they should be partners in the ghost-hunting business.
Meanwhile, Sardaar has been living with the glamorous ghost witch Pinki (played by Neeru Bajwa), whom he fell in love with in the first “Sardaarji” movie. Pinki leads a coven of 10 other ghost witches, who serve very little purpose in the movie except to echo Pinki’s thoughts. Pinki and her coven have been helping Sardaar with his ghost-hunting business.
But when Pinki finds out about Noor and the fact that Noor was able to get Sardaar to agree to have Noor as his equal busness partner, Pinki predictably gets very jealous. Pinki als demands at least one-third of whatever earning that Sardaar and Noor get. Lots of noisy and irritating arguments ensue.
Sardaar s caught in the middle. It doesn’t help that he and Noor begin dating and fall in love with each other. This is one of the things Sardaar says in response to this messy love triangle: “Girls and witches are the same. They just want to control men and have men wrapped around them.”
Noor gets an offer of £100,000 to go to a castle in England and find a ghost for the family who lives there. When Sardaar hears about this job, he decides to go to England too. They don’t find out until it’s too late that the family who hired them is a family of gangsters.
The chief villain is KK (played by Manav Vij), who is looking for the ghost of his identical twin JK (also played by Vij), so the ghost of JK can tell KK where JK’s lost corpse can be found because diamond are hidden in the corpse. KK’s brother-in-law Kala Lohoria (played by Gulshan Grover) is looking for JK’s ghost too for the same reason and because he also wants the diamonds for himself.
The movie’s mediocre song-and-dance numbers add nothing worthwhile to the story. Everything in “Sardaar Ji 3” is a jumble of bad slapstick comedy, sloppy editing, tacky visual effects and characters that are mostly unlikable. Dosanjhi gives a performance that’s more annoying than amusing. Out of all the principal cast members in “Sardaar Ji 3,” Aamir has the movie’s worst performance, because her acting in the movie is very unnatural and over-exaggerated. Bajwa doesn’t do much but act like a haughty diva.
The love triangle is resolved in exactly the way you would expect in a movie that treats a coven of witches as mere sidelined advisors to the male “hero” protagonist. And, of course, the ending also hints that there will be another sequel. “Sardaar Ji 3” was banned for release in India because Aamir is Pakistani, amid tense political relations between India and Pakistan. India is not missing much by not having “Sardaar Ji 3” available for an official release because “Sardaar Ji 3” just another in a long list of worthless movie sequels that are inferior to the original movie.
White Hill Studios released “Sardaar Ji 3” in select U.S. cinemas on June 27, 2025.