Overview
- The makers released the official 4 minute 10 second trailer on June 11 and held a Mumbai launch that reunited lead cast and crew for promotional events.
- The trailer uses a film-within-film jungle premise that leans on franchise callbacks and a cast of more than 30 to sell broad slapstick and action set pieces.
- Akshay Kumar used the launch to deny media reports that he took about ₹1.7–1.8 crore as an upfront fee, saying he did not receive that amount.
- Trade outlets cited sizable pre-release deals of roughly ₹120 crore for rights and reported a production budget near ₹250 crore, but those financial figures have not been uniformly confirmed by producers.
- Early responses to the trailer were split—many praised nostalgia and scale while others called it noisy or underwhelming—and box-office trackers have projected a strong opening, for example a Day‑1 net estimate of ₹22–25 crore.