Mastiii 4 Is Brain-Dead, Aimed Solely At Killing You

With Mastiii 4 Milap Zaveri amps things up to horrid and sordid degrees. The film has set a new benchmark of treating every living being in a film with such vulgarity that it feels like contempt.

Ishita+Sengupta

Nov 21, 2025

Promo poster for Mastiii 4.

AS SOMEONE IN HER 30s I have a lot of worries: ageing parents, climate change, whimsical world leaders and the growing cost of living. But late at night, when struggling to sleep, one thought plagues me the most: how is Milap Zaveri still making films? This isn't a personal affront, at least no more than what his films unleash on us. But really, lesser filmmakers have dwindled into oblivion and here’s Zaveri with two films in one year, and while one seemed like the worst, the other has somehow surpassed it.

Mastiii 4 the latest instalment of the sex comedy franchise, is every bit as bad as one expects it to be. It is still geared to the same premise of three married men wanting to cheat, only to be humbled by the realisation of how terrible that is, and how lovely their wives are. The male actors are the same, their arcs are ditto, the fate is the same, the tone is still clownish, but it is still worse.

For one, the premise makes little sense in 2025. Monogamous relationships today have branched into multiple sub-genres, and infidelity is less attached to morality than it was when the original Masti (2004) released. So, the plot is already dated, but that refuses to deter Zaveri, who further pulps things into disfiguration by conceiving gags rejected from Anees Bazmee and Indra Kumar films. The only thing believable here is three men refusing to change their ways even after two decades.

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In this version, Meet (Vivek Oberoi) is a car seller, Prem (Aftab Shivdasani) a doctor and Amar (Riteish Deshmukh), a man responsible for making animals mate (don’t ask). Their wives are incidental, but for detailing sake, one is overtly jealous, another too religious and the third one too possessive. Troubled by having no sex, they chance upon this bright idea of “love visa” (open relationships with validity) where men can have a weekly leeway in a year. They have no luck, but when their wives want to do the same, they do everything possible to ruin it.

Honestly, it is already abysmal, but Zaveri amps things up to horrid and sordid degrees. It is one thing to stop at nothing and wholly another to create a level below bottom and aim for it. Mastiii 4 has set a new benchmark of treating every living being in a film with such vulgarity that it feels like contempt. Sample some: a man (Shaad Randhawa FYI) loses his nipples in a scene, another man bashes people by gouging their eyes (the actor actually holds fake eyeballs), a woman loses her dentures while kissing, the three women, the wives, are way hotter than the men they are married to and yet have to live with partners who don’t care. Even babies are not spared.

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But there are more. Most Zaveri comedies are notorious for making jokes at the expense of women. Mastiii 4 does the same, but I am assuming someone from his writing team must have objected to the offensive nature. A change was due, and the filmmaker embraces it by choosing the next set of minorities: animals. It’s been a long time since a film delivered VFX this bad — or treated animals with such blatant disrespect. No one is spared. In one scene, dogs, monkeys and squirrels start humping Deshmukh’s leg. It hurts to even type. In fact, animals humping either of the three men is somehow a constant gag. In a fairer world, their lawyer would sue the makers.

As someone prone to laughing at brain-rot humour, Mastiii 4 also reminded me of the genius of Bazmee’s early films and his continued hold over humour that somehow translates to laughter even when broken. In comparison, Zaveri’s film feels like brain-dead, aimed solely at killing you. He is clutching at straws here, like the middle-aged men who keep reprising their roles as a means of some twisted sado-masochistic humour. Rents in Mumbai cannot be this high.

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