Arshad Warsi Shoots King's Showpiece Song as Jolly LLB 4 Prequel Is Confirmed

By TaazaPulse News Desk · Published: 29 October 2026 · TaazaPulse Showbiz Desk

Arshad Warsi's name climbed the trends this week on the strength of two headlines pulling in opposite directions — one about a song, one about a sequel — and together they explain why, thirty years into his career, he remains one of Hindi cinema's most quietly essential actors. The song belongs to King, Shah Rukh Khan's next blockbuster. The sequel belongs to Warsi himself: Jolly LLB 4 is in production, and this time he is not sharing the title role.

The King song: a Deewangi Deewangi for a new film

Variety India reported this week that Shah Rukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Arshad Warsi are shooting their portions for King's introductory song — a large-scale, multi-actor number consciously modelled on "Deewangi Deewangi" from the 2007 film Om Shanti Om, the famous sequence in which a parade of stars appeared in a single track. Choreographer Vaibhavi Merchant is staging the number, and preparations for the shoot were under way from the morning of 26 October, with an elaborate set in place.

The song is one of two major musical sequences known from the film so far: a track featuring Deepika Padukone with Khan has already been filmed outside India, and reports suggest Padukone may return to shoot an introductory portion for the new number as well, though her participation in this sequence is not confirmed. King, directed by Siddharth Anand, carries one of the largest ensemble casts of the year — Khan with Padukone, Suhana Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Rani Mukerji, Jaideep Ahlawat, Warsi and Abhay Verma — and is scheduled to reach theatres on 24 December. A poster released from the film, showing Khan with tousled blonde hair and a bloodied chest amid flames, played on his "Baadshah" persona and sent the campaign trending on its own.

For Warsi, the casting is a homecoming of sorts: his ease in big ensemble machinery — the Golmaal films built a two-decade franchise on it — is precisely what a Deewangi-style number requires, a star who can land a moment in ninety seconds of screen time.

Jolly LLB 4: a prequel, with Warsi back in the title role

The week's more consequential news for Warsi's own filmography came from the same publication: the fourth Jolly LLB film is in production, and it is a prequel. Variety India reports the film is directed by Umesh Shukla — the maker of OMG: Oh My God! — and will wrap shooting by January 2027, with the title yet to be finalised. Warsi returns as Jagdish Tyagi, the lawyer he created in the 2013 original.

The franchise's history explains why the prequel matters. Subhash Kapoor's first Jolly LLB made Warsi's small-time Meerut lawyer the centre of a courtroom satire that became a sleeper hit and a critical favourite. The second film handed the robe to Akshay Kumar as a different Jolly, Jagdishwar Mishra; the third brought both actors together for the face-off audiences had demanded. Across all three, the constant pleasures were the writing — the courtroom as the one room where a nobody can make a somebody answer questions — and Saurabh Shukla's judge, the franchise's moral centre and comic engine. A prequel, by design, returns to origins: Jagdish Tyagi before the famous cases, which means the franchise's emotional core is once again Warsi alone at the centre of the frame.

The two Arshads

Warsi's career has always run on twin tracks. There is Circuit — the Munna Bhai films' beloved sidekick, a performance so complete it threatened to swallow the actor whole — and the comic engine of the Golmaal and Dhamaal films. And there is the other filmography: the Jolly LLB films, Ishqiya's brooding Babban, Sehar, Kabul Express — the performances critics have spent twenty years citing as evidence that Warsi is among the most under-credited actors of his generation. A star-song in the year's biggest film and a prequel built around his own defining role, arriving in the same news cycle, is in its way the perfect summary: the entertainer and the actor, inseparable at this stage of his career.

Why the trend spiked

The searches that carried Warsi's name up the trends were doing double duty — fans looking for the King song updates, fans looking for the Jolly LLB 4 confirmation, two audiences arriving at the same name from opposite ends of his career. It is a neat illustration of where he sits in the culture: simultaneously a nostalgia act for the Circuit generation and a working actor whose next sequel announcement is genuine news. The King song will surface with the film's campaign ahead of its 24 December release; Jolly LLB 4's shoot, running to January 2027, is the next milestone to watch. TaazaPulse's Showbiz desk will follow both — alongside our tribute coverage of Shivaji Satam and the late B. P. Singh, the CID creator whose death this week closed another chapter of Indian television history.

Why the prequel is the franchise's safest — and smartest — bet

The logic of returning to Warsi's Jolly starts with the original film's afterlife. The 2013 Jolly LLB was made modestly and grew by word of mouth into one of the most quoted Hindi courtroom comedies of its decade; its hero — an under-prepared, over-reaching small-city lawyer who stumbles into a case far above his station — became a template Bollywood has reused ever since. When Akshay Kumar's second Jolly arrived in 2017, the franchise effectively split into two fan bases, and the third film's two-Jolly courtroom duel acknowledged that neither audience could be left behind.

A prequel resolves that split elegantly. It gives Warsi's constituency the character in his original form — younger, hungrier, still learning the law's tricks — without requiring the two-hander scheduling and salary arithmetic of pairing both stars again. It also hands the director's chair to a filmmaker whose reputation was built on exactly this register: Umesh Shukla's OMG – Oh My God! turned a courtroom into a national conversation about faith and money, and 102 Not Out balanced comedy with genuine feeling. If the reports are accurate, the production is being mounted as a return to the series' roots rather than an escalation — smaller case, sharper satire, and the lawyer who started it all.

For Warsi himself, the timing is equally neat. A supporting turn in the year's most anticipated release, followed by a solo lead in his own franchise's fourth chapter, is the kind of one-two sequence that reframes a career narrative in a single year — from beloved ensemble player back to headline act, at an age when the industry rarely hands its comic actors that second act.