John, Anil, Nana to star in Welcome 3 and Welcome 4

The filming will start this year

Mumbai: John Abraham, Anil Kapoor, Paresh Rawal and Nana Patekar are set to star in the third and fourth installments of Welcome franchise and the makers have already started working on the projects. The 2007 comedy film Welcome, directed by Anees Bazmee and produced by Firoz A Nadiadwala had Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Feroz Khan, Kapoor, Patekar, Rawal and Mallika Sherawat. The film was a blockbuster. The makers came with Welcome Back in 2015 with Abraham. The sequel saw Kapoor and Patekar reprising their roles of underworld dons – Majnu and Uday.

“We are planning to do Welcome

3 and Welcome 4 back-to-back. We will start shooting soon. The actors will remain same John, Anil, Nana, Paresh bhai. The third one will be directed by Ahmed Khan (the first two were helmed by Bazmee),” source close to the makers said.