No Drishyam 4: Abhishek Pathak Says the Hindi Franchise Ends With Drishyam: The Conclusion

The Hindi Drishyam franchise is over — and the makers want it that way. Director Abhishek Pathak has confirmed that Drishyam: The Conclusion is the definitive end of Ajay Devgn’s Hindi series, ruling out any possibility of a Drishyam 4 despite the film’s massive box-office run.

Speaking to Variety India before the release, Pathak said, “There is no possibility of revisiting the Hindi Drishyam for sure.” In a follow-up conversation with Screen, he explained the thinking behind the decision: “All of us believe this is the last part of the film. Obviously, the audience is loving it, and talking about it. But Drishyam isn’t the franchise where we can just decide to make another film. It’s very much dependent on the story, and the story has ended. I always thought the ending was very poetic. It’s a love letter to the franchise.”

The finality is baked into the title itself — the film was originally referred to as Drishyam 3 before the makers officially renamed it Drishyam: The Conclusion, signalling its position as the last chapter of Vijay Salgaonkar’s story. Ajay Devgn returns as Vijay, with Tabu, Shriya Saran, Rajat Kapoor and Ishita Dutta reprising their roles, while Jaideep Ahlawat (as Crime Branch officer Rajveer Singh Tomar) and Prakash Raj join the cast as the new forces closing in on the Salgaonkars.

Pathak also confirmed that the Hindi and Malayalam versions are now on separate tracks. While the Malayalam Drishyam 3, directed by Jeethu Joseph and led by Mohanlal, moves in a different narrative direction, the Hindi film was developed as its own story — which is why Part 3 is a natural stopping point for the Hindi version even as the Malayalam franchise continues on its own path.

The decision comes at the peak of the franchise’s commercial power. According to trade estimates, Drishyam: The Conclusion has crossed the ₹500 crore mark worldwide within 12 days of its October 2 release, with around ₹323.50 crore net in India. The film opened with a ₹62 crore first day and posted a second weekend of over ₹60 crore — a figure many films never reach in their entire lifetime.

“The closure is beautifully done. That’s what people liked about it,” Pathak said. “A lot of people are telling me there can be a part 4… but that’s not the point. We had to stop it at some point, and this was a beautiful ending to the franchise.”

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Source: Variety India; Screen via Bollywood Hungama; box-office figures are trade estimates